September 8, 2012

New Skill	BabyProof
We took BC to the Greek Festival today. We were gone for several hours and what with all the sight, sounds, and smells, he was just too distracted to nurse. This lead to two things occurring: my breasts getting super full and uncomfortable, and BC getting super hungry and fussy in the car on the way home.  What to do? Well, since my discomfort was also a potential health issue, and since I had actually learned from past experience and left my hand-expression cup in the car for emergencies, I went ahead and hand-expressed a tiny bit of milk to relieve some pressure. The hand-expression cup that I have is attached to a bottle but the bottle is sans nipple. But since BC was becoming more and more fussy and difficult to distract I decided to go ahead and try to give him the milk I had just expressed.  Let me tell you, a 4-month old drinking from a cup is pretty stinking cute to watch. I was really impressed with how quickly BC figured it out, actually. He got most of it in him and it was just enough to quell his hunger until we got home. This new skill of his will come in handy in the future, methinks.  And oh yeah, during the hand-expressing and breast milk-in-a-cup-to-baby-feeding, my husband was driving. I'm not that good at multitasking.  ~M	16 ½ years ago we entered the baby-proofing world.  We were first time parents and so careful with everything.  Every outlet was covered, baby gates up throughout the house, locks on all the cabinets and drawers and we even went to the extreme of duct taping towels to end tables and coffee tables.  Yes duct tape, which was the end of that furniture when we removed the tape.  Times have changed and today I purchased my first and very important baby-proofing item, an iPhone case.  Priorities people!  J   ~A