Stressed with weight…
Well little one. YOu have mommy really stressed right now. You will not take your bottle anymore with the formula in it. every feed is a fight for mommy to get some food into you. Normally you take about 120 mils or just over 4 ounces, but lately you have dropped your intake to about 2.5 ounces. I took you to to the doctor today and you have lost a little weight too. I am so worried about you and very stressed. I try my best to remain calm at feeding times so you don’t associate that with stress, but you make it very hard for mommy. You fight me every bottle. I started to keep an eating journal so that when I talk to the doctors I would have some written info for them and you are really not feeding very well. For some reason, I think that it’s a reflection on me as a mom. I can’t get you to eat so there must be something wrong with me…or something wrong with how I am holding you or something I am doing wrong…I only want to make you healthy and help you grow, but you just fight me. You turn your head away, close your mouth so I can’t get the bottle in, cry and at times you have actually vomited everything that I managed to get into you. I really don’t know what to do or how to make this better. We saw our family doctor today and he wants us to see Dr. Digravio your pediatrician to talk about this. We have an appointment next wednesday with him. In the mean time, the family doctor suggested adding a bit of Homo milk to your formula so maybe we will give that a try. Mommy just does not know what to do…..