Once Upon A Time

There once was an average size baby born, well, her weight was average but she was long. She was too skinny for 0-3 month clothes and too long for preemie clothes. This baby liked to nurse a lot, which too some getting used to by her mommy. But soon she began to grow and grow and grow. And before you knew it she was wearing her 0-3mo. clothes. And they fit nice for several weeks. Then she began to grow again, really fast and the 0-3mo. stuff didn't fit. She had to start wearing 3-6mo. clothes, but again she was too skinny for the waists but the length fit. Even a guy who saw here when she was shopping with her mommy asked if she was around 6 months old.

Well, that baby is now growing & growing again, really fast. And just as the waist of the 3-6mo. started to fit, the length just doesn't. So, her mommy had to get out 6-9mo. clothes. There is many 3-6mo. clothes she'll never be able to wear because they are too hot, but she did get to wear most of them that were just right. And I am sure that she will soon again be growing and growing very fast.

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There once was a little girl who everyone thought was refusing to take a bottle. As soon as you put it in her mouth she would spit it out. And after a while she would get upset and cry. And sometimes she would just sit there with the nipple in her mouth, but not sucking.

Now this caused her mommy some distress because mommy needed to go back to work. They tried everything, different people, different bottles, different times, different surroundings, different nipples. But nothing seemed to work.

Her mommy continued to remain hopeful because she would take a little bit, but not quite enough. It made her mommy very sad to think that her baby girl might be hungry if she didn't eat enough and she began to make plans to make sure that her baby girl would not cry herself hungry (just the thought of it pulls my heart strings.)

But then one day, her mommy was reading about troubles with introducing a bottle or solid foods to a baby and found out that babies have a tongue-push reflex that usually goes away (just like those other inborn relfexes) around 4 months in breastfed babies. Bottle fed babies lose that much quicker and some babies just take longer to lose their infant relexes.

So, her mommy is a little more hopeful again, but still making plans, hoping one day her baby girl will eat enough from the bottle or of solid food so that no more plans have to be made.

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Today's outfit is a vintage First Imperssions one piece (6-9mo.) that says "Daddy's Little Sweetheart". Of course daddy's heart melted when he saw that this morning. You can still see the wild curls today.