Poop, food, formula, I might have done something wrong
I bought frozen squash the last time I did grocery shopping but I wasn't sure what the texture was. It's basically a puree so I warmed some up in my ill/sleepy coma like state the other night. I tried giving Seamus some and as much as he seemed to like the idea of eating something off of a spoon he spit out almost everything put in his mouth. He
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So they eat. And eat. And sweet God eat. But they don't seem to think much of solids other than it's funny to kick Mom's plate if she has it balanced on the arm rest.
My main concern is they're still on the heavy duty preemie formula and since formula can constipate I'm wondering if the heavy calorie, iron fortified formula is fucking with them. WIC is going to switch us to Gerber Goodstart next visit so hopefully it will be less intense. I wish my body would just magically shoot milk like no ones business, but I've really decided I have to stop beating myself up. If I can only get 12oz in a day that's it. That's all I get. And that's apparently really good. So I just need to calm the hell down and recognize that we're doing awesome.
But when I say we nurse every two hours or so, I'm not kidding. I'm so happy when they nurse and fall asleep and stay asleep but it's so rare to nap without them on me. I am apparently only capable of nursing them to sleep at night but I think they're hitting the distracted nursing phase so unless I put up black out curtains I don't think I'll ever be able to get them to nap without me.
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that is a pretty good amount, for real. as long as i was lactating i never got that much pumping, ever. ever. i was lucky if i got one or two from each side
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