Baby girl screamed at anything (other than breast) that approached her mouth the whole week after her tongue tie revision. Bottle, pacifier, finger. But she still was unable to effectively draw milk out of the breast. We calculated that she was getting probably about 8 oz of breastmilk a day, when she needed more like 20-24 oz ( Read more... )

We gave up on breast feeding today, per the recommendation of a pediatric occupational therapist. It's just not working right now.

A lot has happened in the past couple weeks. Baby girl is now nine weeks old, and every week we think we find a new solution to what we think her problem is. It’s a feeding problem, not a sleeping problem. Its a neurological system, not a behavior. It’s a schedule problem, it’s a sleep training problem, it’s a etc. etc ( Read more... )

I’ve got another schedule for you. My girl is almost 8 weeks old now and has painful reflux. She still has no discernible sleep regularity and any attempts to guide her into a schedule are thwarted by her insistent inability to do what I want her to do. What a jerk. Hey all you baby sleep gurus out there, I don’t need anymore suggestions for what ( Read more... )

"Enjoy the newborn phase, it'll be over so soon ( Read more... )

And then sometimes not even formula works and she keeps screaming ( Read more... )

Well that was incredibly horrible to find out that I was starving AND neglecting my 5 week old baby girl ( Read more... )

Disregard my last post, nothing works and she’s back to being inconsolable and not sleeping.

Didn’t think I would make it to one month ( Read more... )

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“How dare you try to sit while rocking me?” and “All of a sudden, I hate what you are doing to me, even though I liked it one second ago.”