Hi... My name is Sophia...

and I'm a boob-a-holic.

I'm at my witts end. We need to find her a support group to help her with her addiction. Don't get me wrong... I am sooo happy that breast feeding is going so well, but at night it would be great if she could go a little longer than 2 hours. I thought feeding every 2 1/2 hours was hard. Sophia has now put on her game face and is eating every 2 hours which has cut my sleep time down considerably.... which makes Mommy a raving lunitic at times.

If I hear that "so and so's baby" is sleeping 7 hours straight and is only 7 weeks old I might scream and sell little Sophia. She's very cute and will have you wrapped around her little finger immediately... but when the clock strikes 11pm its time to pop the devil horns, fuss, grunt, cry, poop, "spit my soother further than you could ever imagine a 4 week old baby spitting" and everything else that goes along with it.

Adrian is off today. Last night he was quite helpful or as helpful as he could be with the devil in room #3. I fed Sophia at 1am, and put her down in her bassinett in our bedroom. That didn't last long before the noises started so I moved her. I decided to see if Sophia would give us all a better sleep if she wasn't in our room. She is a very vocal baby, with all of her sounds and we thought that maybe we were keeping her up by jumping to her every sound. So last night was going to be the first night she would spend in her crib. She'd suck her soother feverishly and it would pop out. Helpless as she is, she couldn't get it back in her mouth. So after 15 trips to room #3, Adrian told me to stay in bed and get some sleep... he would battle it out until at least 3am. I dosed off and on. At 2:30am I heard him mumble something like... "maybe if I duct tape the soother in, she'll stay asleep." LOL... someone else feels my frustration... FINALLY!! I asked him to bring her into our bed. To be honest, I can't recall what happened at that point.. did I feed her? did she calm down? I'm not sure... I do know that I was up with her from 4am-5:30am as she couldn't settle and gets herself into such a rage.

For those of you tht have spent any time with Sophia, you have heard her grunting when she's working on a poop or gas. I have eliminated anything that would bother her little tummy and we still deal with this. I'm going to pick up oval drops today to see if they will work. We have also tried putting the soother back in her mouth when she wakes at night to see if see if she is actually hungry, or just needs to suckle to settle herself down.... it gave me an extra 45 minutes, but she was so angry when she woke up that it took me over an hour to get her settled AFTER she ate!!! So if you have any suggestions please email me at kathrynheidinger@gmail.com

Will post some pictures as soon as I get some new ones up loaded.