Thursday, February 16, 2006

Strollin' in Style

I worked my ass off last week at work and had lots of extra hours, so I took today off. It was nice and I planned to do so many things, but of course, I only did a few. Robert stayed home from work too, but because he's sick. Again. We think he has undiagnosed asthma. He gets sick way too often. He's going to the doctor tomorrow.

Because we all stayed home today, we made it out for a nice walk in the neighborhood. I finally opened up this stroller that was a shower gift for Sofia. It was in the box for months because I thought she was too small for it, but it's perfect! It's sort of like a jogging stroller, but not quite. It's all spiffy and nice, nothing at all like the stroller we've been using that is part of that infant travel system. She looked adorable too. After we got back from out walk, we fed our little sweet pea some rice cereal, bathed her, and put her to bed. It was a good day. If only I didn't have to work tomorrow.

So now that I've been feeding my little one rice cereal, I have a question for all the other moms: Does the cereal replace an entire feeding for your baby or do you still feed baby milk before or after the cereal? See, I'm a paranoid breastfeeding mom. I'm always terrified that my breastmilk supply is going down because of the whole working mom/pumping mom thing. Every time Sofia gets cereal, that's less time she's nursing so, unless I pump, it's essentially a missed feeding (lately I feel like the crazy milk pumping lady I'm pumping so often). Anyway, I'm just not sure how other moms have been doing it. One of the LLL leaders suggested I have daycare feed her the majority of the rice cereal then exclusively nurse when I'm with her. Any other suggestions?

1 Comments:

At 12:37 PM, Blogger Kelly said...

I do a couple tablespoons of rice cereal and then offer the breast. No book really spells it out and even our pediatrician couldn't give me firm answer when I asked today.

 

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