Silicon Valley Baby

Easily startling; introducing the bottle

There were two particularly notable things about our daughter today. The first is that she was startled awake twice by particularly conspicuous sounds. One was the sound of me blowing my nose, as she slept in my arms. She awoke with a start.

She awoke with another start later on, when I laughed particularly suddenly and hard at something on South Park. The force with which she startled alarmed me that she might have some sort of neurological abnormality. More likely, I'm being a worrywort, first-time dad: a silly dad, as it were.

In other news, we're trying to make bottle feeding part of her feeding regimen. I tried for the first time a few days ago, February 19. It didn't go very well, though, and I gave up after a time. Since then, SiliMommy's been too busy to pump. She did, however, finally get around to pumping tonight, so I'm going to give it another go. SiliMommy really needs a good, uninterrupted five hours or so, and she can get that if the feeding goes well!

Am not yet sure how how widely we can space out her feedings. When she was brand-newly born, we had to wake her up for feedings. But now she's coming up on six weeks. Can we let her sleep until she awakens, herself, and wants to eat?

I'm pretty nervous about trying to feed her again by myself. It really didn't go very well the first time...

posted by SiliDaddy @ 1:29 AM