One Month Checkup

Oh, Hunter Lee...


You have failed to gain weight.  Again.  Daddy and I were so hopeful, we redneck weighed you several times and got great numbers (around 7 pounds of chubby munchkin).  FAIL.  6 pounds, 5 ounces of skinny munchkin.  I even called the nurse out on the scale and she allowed me to re-weigh you.  6 pounds, 5 ounces.  Whiskey.  Tango.  Foxtrot.  At any rate, you're still as healthy as a miniature pony (I would say horse, but you and large animals hold no comparison).  You got your second hepatitis shot, and hardly cried at all.  Then, I was forced to have the much dreaded discussion: supplementing.

Dr. Omengan left it up to me, but I felt like, since you weren't gaining, I should offer you something in addition to what you were getting.  So, I left with my arms full of Similac.  After talking to Auntie Kathie and Daisy, I decided against going the formula route, and that I would use some of the breast milk I'd been pumping for you.  So, what I've been doing, as you know, is breast feeding you until you decide you're done, then I offer you a bottle with breast milk to "top you off".  At first, you wanted nothing to do with this.  You'd spit out the milk and turn your head away.  Now, however, you've come to accept that, until you can find some chubbies, you've gotta at least pretend to care about this little friend we've introduced you to.  Sometimes, you only take half an ounce, sometimes you take two ounces.  And, quite frankly, sometimes I don't even offer you the bottle at all.  Like, this morning.  I allowed you to nurse until your little heart's content and there was no need to offer the bottle.  Now, you lie next to me, asleep and full.

Daddy and I did decide, if we have to go to formula (which will only happen when and if we have to continue to supplement and we run out of our reserve), we're going to use Baby's Only.  It seems like the most highly rated organic formula.  But, we're really crossing our fingers that it won't be necessary!!

So, my littlest pony, that was your one month checkup.  We go today for another weight check.  I hope they've fixed their stupid scale.  ;-)