We have seen signs that she might be working on teething these days and that comes with little fevers and random discomfort.  So that is being tossed on top of the wolf-like hunger.  We were hitting on a good system of giving her a bottle of express milk before bed and she was usually good with that.  She would nurse for a few minutes for the comfort of it and then off to sleepy-land.  We can’t get her to take a bottle anymore and will be starting a new offensive tomorrow to get her back to accepting a bottle.

Pray for us and mostly Christy and Casey.  Its frustrating for Christy because she has a hungry baby attached to her for 3 hours straight and then its hard to get her in bed because she is not feeling 100%.

I know this won’t last long, but its times like these when I get just a little stressed.

These are the Casey Chronicles.

Today we are a few days into Casey as a 3 month old.

Casey gets very hungry at night.  With that hunger comes a refusal to sleep from 4p to her bedtime between 9:30 and 10.  We have started feeding her express milk in a bottle to wrap up the day and get her a good full tummy for bedtime.  This works sometimes with no problem and other nights she gets raging mad about the bottle.  We haven’t figured out why.  Tonight she gave us her loudest objection to the bottle we have seen to-date.  So we broke out one of the other types of bottles we have in the drawer and transferred the milk over and she took about half of it with ZERO complaints (special thanks to Andy and Traci).  Second half was more refusal so we caved and put her back at the boob.  Score one for finally realizing the change was needed, deduct one for taking so long to try something different.  Deduct half for not getting her to eat the rest of the bottle like we planned.  We’ll learn.

When its time for Casey to eat she usually nurses from Mom.  She usually gives little more than a few squaks or frowns when she is hungry because Christy has a pretty good schedule down and we know its coming before she does.  When Christy puts her on her boppy and gets her ready to eat if eating isn’t happening in exactly 2.45 seconds she will start yelling and screaming until she gets a boob in her mouth.

I don’t think we can teach her to be just a little more patient at this age.  We think its pretty funny.

Thats enough for now.  There are many more things that I will write when they come to mind.