Well, on September 20th Lucas cut through his first bottom tooth, then the next one on the next day! This past Saturday he cut through one on the top, and I can feel the second top tooth wanting to poke through any day now. Yeah! He's done really well with it - just some fussiness, but no fever, runny nose, rash, diaper rash, etc. He's had a fairly easy go of it so far, and continues to sleep well so that's good. :) He looks even cuter now - I'll have to try to get a close-up pic so you can see his toothy grin.
My prayer request for him now is that I can get him to take a bottle. He's not wanting to, so we've started trying new things. A friend from church gave me a whole bag of bottles she was finished with - there are different from the ones we've tried so far. I had a friend suggest to me a few weeks back that I try giving him a bottle first thing in the morning because he'd be really hungry and more motivated to take it. Well, that didn't work! All I did was make him mad - very mad! *tee-hee* Lucas - 1, Mommy - 0. :) So I got online and did some searching, and lo and behold that's the worst time to try to give a baby a bottle when you're first starting to bottle feed! LOL Too funny. I got lots of good ideas, though, and Sunday I commenced with trying every day to get him to take a bottle. I put him in the front pack facing away from me on Sunday afternoon between his feedings. Then I put just a little water in one of the new types of bottle. He gnawed on that for a while, so I made 2 ounces of formula and he gnawed and even sucked on that a little bit - I think he ended up with an ounce of it in him, but it took over 1/2 hour. :) I count that as success, though, because he didn't fight or cry. Then yesterday I tried the same thing with 2 more ounces. He lasted about 15 minutes of chewing on it and basically got nothing down, but I will keep trying. He's eating rice cereal now - it's funny to see the faces he makes. :) Appreciate prayers for that!
Have a wonderful week - will post more on the rest of us shortly!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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