December 18, 2007

So today we had the appointment with the LLL LC reguarding breastfeeding William. It went GREAT!! She things that within the next couple of weeks that he will be at the breast soley!!! YAY!!! She has me using the nipple shield again and said, we need to do that a while so he can exercice and get his back jaw muscles stronger so that they can do a bigger latch (as he currently only tries to take just a little of the end of the nipple in) and get more of the nipple in and be able to suck it in more. She also has me using a little hose like thing that is connected to the sirenge of breast milk, so that when he is latching with the nipple shield and starts to get frusterated because he is looking for the "big flow" that he will still get it, but associate it with the breast. We are only to do that at the start to get him there and ina calm state and then just let him feed on one side. When he is done with the one side, we are to try to get him to latch onto the other breast (without the nipple shield) and see how that goes. We are to do this at each feeding. So in essence we are no longer feeding via sirenge, but only using the hose and sirenge as a calming tachniqu while on the breast!! When he got on soo calmly and didn't flail his arms and stuff but just ate for a good 20-30 minutes!! It was awesome!!

Anyways, today is also our 3rd Anniversary and so afterwards we went to Olive Garden to celebrate our anniversary. He slept through all of it, and was great as he slept in his car seat (while we ate).

He gained 70 ml of weight with that one feeding which is awesome and because of such the gain and the bonding (I think), he slept for a good 3 hours before wanting more food. He also slept in his car seat (without us holding him) while we were at the Olive Garden and that was awesome. We think it might be, because he go the "bonding" part of the breastfeeding, and wasn't "needing" to be held (to get the "bonding" he was lacking). He also had the largest diaper load he has ever had, which is probably from the amount he ate from that one feeding. We are just soo excited about all this!!

Needless to say, we have had a GREAT day and I am soo ecouraged at the prospects of breastfeeding our son.