2 thumbs & a dummy

It’s official, I think I’m definitely at the end of the road when it comes to bf-ing KR, directly that it. She won’t nurse at the breast anymore hence, I’ve been expressing with the pump as often as I can. I knew that once she stopped at the breast, the supply would drop but I didn’t expect it to drop so much!!! Anyhow, rather than dwell on the fact that I can’t express much these days, I’ve decided to purchase some nursing tea that I previously mentioned.

I may have gone a tad bit overboard coz I ended up purchasing this and this. I don’t know for sure if it will work or not but if it doesn’t, then I’ll just treat it as my normal daily dose of tea, but if it does….guess I can officially open the milk bar again! The other thing that one of the girls from my forum told me is to make nursing cookies which contains flaxseed and brewer’s yeast. And it MUST be brewer’s yeast and nothing else. So I might try that out too, aftter I get the ingredients of course.

Now, what’s been happening with KR? Well, she is more than happy to take her milk in the bottle which is weird coz Arianna never liked it and first had her bottle when she was close to 1 year old. KR can already hold the bottle up to feed herself! The funny things about KR is that when she does drink her milk, she must have it upright. Eg. she has to be sitting upright with her head tilted and not lying down. If I attempted to feed her by trying to get her to lie down, all hell breaks lose and she will scream her lungs out! I really don’t know what’s with that. If I set aside gold coins each time she screamed at my attempts, we’d be rich by now!

And the last 2 times she had her milk, she insisted that we stood up and give her the bottle. Too much right? =.= But I guess things could be worst, eh? On the solids front, she’s having more mashed foods now as compared to pureed. I admit that we started a little late on solids but I think this slight change in texture just means that she is ready to move on to more coarser textures. That said, I have been meaning to give her cheese sticks but member got no teeth so I don’t know what good it will be and also if yogurt and cheese would give her any bowel issues. I might just try a small piece and she how she takes to it and then take it from there.