Trying to Satisfy Her Hunger

Holy moly, our girl likes to eat. We've all read about how my chest is about to fall off, plus how she's eating formula as well. Now to keep up with her hunger, we are adding seriously watered down rice cereal.

Last week, I called the nurse at her doctor's office and asked her how we could get our girl feeling full after she eats. The nurse suggested giving her 2 ounces of water in between feedings. We did that, but really it didn't seem to help. Apparently homegirl wants some substance!

Lots of our friends and family have brought up this rice cereal thing. My mom had to give my brother rice cereal this early in his life because he was eating all the time. So tonight we're adding just a little rice cereal to her bottles in hopes that she will be full enough to sleep for a while tonight. She has been sleeping so awful the last two nights, which means mommy has been sleeping awful. Bleh.

Now with adding rice cereal comes more weight gain. I'm thinking of taking our girl into the nurse's office to get her weighed this week. I'm totally curious! Last time she was weighed, it was when Nyla was 3 weeks old and she was 9lbs2oz, which is almost 2 pounds up from her birth weight!

Here's what I fear with adding the rice cereal: constipation again. I'm relatively certain that I do not want to revisit the constipation because that means we (Paul) would have to do the "massaging" technique again. And that was so much fun the first time...

For Nyla's first Easter, we went to spend the day with my family in Tualatin. What a wonderful time it was to all be together. It's amazing to see how much joy this little girl brings to everyone in the family! I always find that after spending time with our families, I miss Nyla at the end of the day because I haven't held her all day. She's always in someone else's arms...unless she poops of course. People are quick to pass the baby back when poop is involved! :)

Three generations of Togiai girls