So Sad, So Mad!

This is the third day in a row that Andrina has been all-but refusing her milk. Yesterday she only had 17 ounces in her bottles over the whole day, on Sunday, she only had 15 ounces in her bottles! Thankfully, I give her a mulit-vitamin with iron supplement in her food and I add formula to her cereal. But still, if she was getting at least 20 ounces of milk from her bottles I'd feel better. Well, today she did it again. She was up at 4 am but only drank 1.5 ounces from her bottle. She went back to sleep and got up at 9 am but then only had 4.5 ounces from her bottle. Well, she did not want any milk after that either. I tried to get her to drink from her bottle at noon but she did not want any milk! She had to be hungry so I made her a meal of solids: oatmeal cereal mixed with bananas and enough formula powder to make 2 ozs of formula, carrots mixed with sweet potatoes, and pear-raspberry mixed with infant fruit-flavored vitamin/iron drops.

With a lot of patience, I got Andrina to eat half of ther bowl of cereal. Then she started refusing. So I switched over to the vegetables and fruit. Well, she was still not cooperating. Finally with much coaxing, pleading, begging and a TON of patience, she finally finished her meal after 30 minutes of this! Now, I do not force feed my baby. If she does not want to eat, that is usually ok. But after only a total of only 6 ounces of milk in over 12 hours, I needed her to eat! Andrina had to be hungry. So I kept trying. I made every funny sound and face I could think of to get her to eat her meal. And she was still upset. She even cried a little bit at one point (yet cheered up somewhat when I pulled out the camera...). But in the end I got her to eat her first meal of solids for the day.

Here's some pictures from this afternoon's mealtime that I am not looking forward to have to repeat ever again!

Look at those tears under her eyes! Yet she began smiling when I took out the camera!

This anger was in response to me wiping the food off of her face after she FINALLY finished her meal of solids!

Now she's just being silly that it's all over with.

After all this was over I figured that Andrina needed some emotional nourishement too. So we cuddled together and I held her, kissed her, and ticked her to make her laugh. We enjoyed some mommy-baby time until she needed a nap. Hopefully, she'll eat better for the rest of the day.