Kirsty slept really well last night, she went down at 7:45pm, we heard her cry sometime after 1am but I’m unsure what time, hubby got up and replugged her and that was her until 5am, I got up and gave her a BF and she went back to sleep until just after 7am. All in all, a good night.

I could tell by my 5am feed that my milk had slowed down again so when I got up this morning I decided I would pump at each feed time, but offer Kirsty a bottle – 2oz BM/3oz formula – and if she finished the bottle or drank some, but looked for booby afterwards, I would allow her to BF. She did very well indeed, she drank most of her bottles at each feed and seemed satisfied. She took a 5 minute BF just after noon but other than that she didn’t seem to “miss” her booby.

I pumped 2oz of BM for each bottle and topped it up with 3oz formula. She mostly drank 3-4oz each bottle. It doesn’t sound much but formula is more filling and drinking from a bottle is new so the volume doesn’t concern me right now. As long as she tries and drinks some, I’m a happy mummy!

In a TMI news update – Kirsty has 2 poos today!!! This is FAB as she has been having a lot of poo trouble lately. I’m so pleased for her, she must have had sore tumtums with being bunged up and I know it has been uncomfortable at times for her to pass her poos.

Kirsty & I went to my parents at the weekend and we had a slight setback with the bottle drinking – she started refusing it again She also has been waking a lot more through the night – like 3-4 times. Taking 2 feeds per night and other times going back off with me re-plugging (giving her back her dummy).

Needless to say, I’ve been quite tired!! She has also decreased her daytime nuring dramatically over the past 2 weeks. I have been using the Annabel Karmel sample food routine for a while now – it states solids to be given at mealtimes with water/juice and milk/BF to be given at naptimes. I’ve found that Kirsty has been too tired to nurse before a nap and therefore hasn’t been getting much milk at all. She has become a very distracted nurser – she will latch on, suck a few times, unlatch to look about and so on. And has started nipping my breast skin whilst nursing – very painful indeed!!!

Yesterday she fed a lot more & better, I also gave her an extra feed at 6:15pm. Last night she went to bed at around 7:30/7:45pm… she gave one small cry at 10:30pm but didn’t wake up… I heard her babble twice at around 4:30am (or 5:30am?! very early!) but she obviously found her dummy and went back to sleep… until 6:30am!!! So she slept all night!!! WOW!!!

Soooo, today I decided to change her routine a bit. We did BFs at 7am, 11am, 3pm, 6:15pm. And solids at 8am, 12:30pm and 5pm. I’m hoping to continue this and fingers crossed it will help with the nighttime sleeping. Today with the 11am feed, I offered Kirsty 3oz of my milk in a bottle and she drank it! I’m hopeful she will continue this if offered at the same time each day!

I bought Kirsty a bouncy chair last Thursday, she adores it! I snapped her snoozing in it this morning… I am biased, but isn’t she gorgeous!