Here is a video clip of Richard Joseph's first bottle. I say on the video that it's April 20, but it's actually April 21, which makes him three weeks and TWO days old. If anybody's counting.
Let the record show that I HATE this milestone. And that it was necessary to offer him a bottle on this day because I was so sick with the flu that I was too dehydrated to nurse. Praise the Lord I had started pumping and freezing breastmilk about a week before. Thankfully, things are getting back to normal now.
Richard didn't LOVE his bottle, but he didn't hate it, either. One more step to a couple hours of freedom for mommy!
3 comments:
uuugh! i'm so sorry Erin! (that you were feeling so terrible right after having a babe!) how smart of you to have started pumping so soon. a bittersweet moment when they take those bottles, isn't it. i'm glad for you, though, that you won't have the trouble of a child who refuses bottles down the road. freedom is good. very good. at least in small doses :)
I agree with Jolene. It is bittersweet. Rest assured, he still needs you.
But here's to freedom!
Awww...sorry you're sick, sorry he had to have his first bottle, glad that it could be your breast milk.
One of the positive things about it, though, is that it gives Daddy a chance to do something as special as feeding his child. (It still kinda hurts, though, when you're a dedicated nursing mommy.)
Laurie S.
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