That's how long Everett went without eating today. SO SAD! My milk is drying up and he wouldn't take formula to supplement so we had to teach him how to take a bottle cold turkey. I just found out this week that I'm only producing about half of what he needs. Not sure what happened.
It was so awful watching him be so sad trying to figure the bottle out. He wanted it so bad, but would only keep biting it. He took a bottle just fine the first month, but we got lazy with it and he totally forgot. It wasn't until 8:00 tonight that he finally figured it out again! 
Right before heading up to bed, Claire hugged him tight and said, "I'm SO happy!"Tom's definitely the hero for working on it so hard with him while I was out running errands for much of the day. I just got to take the credit at the end when it was during one of my tries that he finally took it. He downed 6 oz.
I'm still planning on pumping a few times a day until my milk is totally gone, so he won't be on straight formula just yet, but I can already feel the freedom of it all. I've never been done this early. The past few days I've gone back and forth between being sad to wanting to do cartwheels.
After today's bottle battle though, I am definitely choosing to do cartwheels. Good night, sleep tight!
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Glad you posted on this. I was going to email you this morning and ask how long he went and you answered my question right off the bat. Thank goodness for husbands who can handle baby cries with some detachment for those extra hard jobs (Anthony got to deal with Austin's getting stitches in his finger yesterday while I avoided the sight of the blood!). I definitely want to hear if the sleeping pattern changes this week! (Fingers crossed).
Aw, that is so sad! Good thing he figured it out. We're trying to transition from 2 bottles of milk to sippy cups of milk...not the same thing at all...but it's still a transition. Not sure if they're not interested cuz it's not a bottle anymore, or because they have colds. Change is fun!
Welcome to my world. The longest I've lasted with nursing is 6 months, and I can't figure out why! With William, I was so dried up that even though he had never had a bottle, he took to one right away and sucked it down. I felt so bad for starving him that whole time! And it's hard, but I'm always kind of happy after my milk dries up because I feel so free! I hope you're feeling the same way. I love how the girls congratulated him on his bottle victory.
yea!!! I am glad he is finally getting the milk one way or the other!!!
Go you (and Tom)! I love all the excited and happy pics. The girls are gorgeous.
Oh, I'm so glad your little man finally figured out that bottle. That must have been hard to see him so hungry all day!! I can definitely relate to the love/hate relationship with nursing. I love the closeness and the nutrition they get from breastmilk, but the lack of freedom and having my body just be my own can get very old. I've been fortunate to nurse for a year though with the other two so hopefully I can make it that long again. I'll admit that I'm a bit jealous of your freedom now though!!
You know how happy I am for you!!! Yay for freedon and happy babies!!
Time for a girls night!!!?
It's amazing the sense of accomplishment that comes from successfully teaching a baby something as simple as drinking from a bottle. I'll do a cartwheel for you!
Yay! I'm glad he figured it out. What a stressful day. I'm always sort of sad to stop nursing, but totally "cartwheeling" as you say.
Yay for bottles!!! But I think you already know my thoughts on that! I'm sooooo glad he finally took one! I bet you were ALL miserable!
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