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September 4, 2001
09.04.01
GROWING UP
Lily turns 11-months-old tomorrow. Where has all the time gone?
The little baby we were so afraid to hurt when we changed her clothes is now pulling up on the coffee table and throwing everything she finds on it onto the floor. She cruises on the sofa and can walk across the room pushing her walker. Yesterday she learned how to stand up when she is strapped into the seat of a shopping cart. I would not have believed it possible if I had not seen it. She remained strapped in but was fighting it.
I remember getting so excited when she would simply smile. Now she smacks her lips, blows bubbles, makes clicking sounds and will clap her hands if you do it first. She repeats everything.
Now we take delight in her waving and saying “hi” and “bye.” She can also say ducky, ball, and utt-oh. Utt-oh she learned in daycare. It was funny when we first heard it. My DH and I were watching her play and she fell onto her butt and said “utt-oh.” It was a shock that she was having an independent thought.
BREASTFEEDING
I am getting a little sad because I think our time breastfeeding is coming to an end.
Lily did not have any formula until she was 8 months old. From 8 to 9 months she had 6 oz total. (I do not mean a day, I mean total. We had to throw out the can of power because we did not use it in the month).
Lily, DH and I all caught a stomach bug in May. I could not hold fluids are food down for 48 hours. It was then that I stopped overproducing milk. Since I was producing so much milk I had already begun trying to not pump and work to reduce my supply (I had been making 8 to 12 oz more than Lily could use a day). We ended up throwing out about 40 5 to 6oz bags of frozen milk that we never had a chance to use.
After the stomach bug I never got back in the habit of pumping at work and my milk supply has continued to go down. For the last month we have been giving he formula at daycare. She takes about 9 to 12 oz a day.
We just took a week long vacation and I nursed her most of the time. On day six of the vacation she was not a happy camper in the car. We stopped at a grocery store parking lot and I tried to nurse her. She was not interested. I gave her Motrin because she was teething. We also bought formula and juice so we could give her a bottle in the car. She drank 8 ½ oz of the formula in 5 to 10 minutes. It was very heart wrenching. This was the only time she ever wanted a bottle (b-milk or formula) over nursing.
Lily loves to eat table food and she loves to feed herself. Here is an example: lunch Monday: a scoop of mashed potatoes, three teaspoons corn, the amount of chicken you would find on a leg or wing piece and some turkey. She was still hungry so we fed her half a jar of junior pears.
I am beginning to come to terms with the fact she is going to want more and more big people food and less breast milk.
Where has my little, dependent baby gone?
Sherry & Lily 10/05/00
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