We sure got milk around here... just not enough of the type this little girl likes. This freezer stash is half gone. I had was producing and saving so much milk in the beginning that my mom and dad had to bring over one of their freezers. I filled two whole shelves with bricks of milk. We've gone through have the stash. This last half is not what Avery prefers. We are not sure why she doesn't like it. We think it's the consistency that bothers her.. it actually seems to make her gag. We keep thinking is it the plastic bag we freeze it in, or b/c it seems thicker?? It's a mystery... we do know that Avery will eat up any and all freshly pumped milk.... Lil' piggy!
As for other feeding habits, solids is not going too well. She likes the idea of eating food and in the beginning scarfs anything I put near her mouth.. until.... it comes out her nose which is usually 5 minutes into feeding. We use a syringe to get in some watered down cereal- if I get the syringe just right it will bypass her opening and won't come out her nose She loves custard and banana's. These slippery thicker foods are going down the best these days. Her Doctor says she doesn't need solids for nutrition at all and not to worry. It's just for texture practice right now.
Avery loves to chomp on her bottle and actually feeds her self so to speak. Her haberman special feeder has a chamber in the nipple. It allows us to control the speed in which the milk flows into her mouth. It has 3 speeds, low, med, high. Avery has figured out that instead of mom squeezing it into her mouth that she's rather do it! She now grabs the nipple and squeezes and releases, squeezes and releases over and over. She can really suck down a bottle if I let her do the whole thing. Sometimes she'll squirt too hard and it will all come flushing out her nose. This is never a problem with fresh milk... doesn't even phase her, but if it's formula or frozen it will irritate her nasal cavity and she will get all mucousy.
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