Sweet Challenges

Dear Galena,

One of the sometimes challenging parts of your feeding at this age has been keeping you awake for them, especially during your midnight feedings. I stopped waking you up for late-night feedings around 2 weeks because you were sleeping for longer periods and I figured I'd let you roll with that since that is obviously the ultimate goal. And needless to say, it hasn't stunted your growth yet, so I'm happy sticking with that. Anyway, when you do wake me in the night (which is still happening almost all nights), you tend to be good for the first breast, but it's tough for you to stay awake for that second one, And the last thing I want to do is have to get up another time in the middle of the night, so I try to keep you awake if needed.

This morning you woke up hungry a little before 4:00 and just went to town on the first course. Then you started pretty slow with the second and it was clear that it was going to be tough to get you to finish. You stopped and there was no getting you to take more. Although your eyes were somewhat open, they were kind of rolling around and you were in a deep a deep milk coma. As if that wasn't sweet enough, everytime I kept trying to give you my nipple, you kept smiling! Smiles are becoming more frequent at this time, but still not really regular yet. And of course they are the sweetest sight ever. So here I was waking your daddy with my laughing as you gave me unconscious smiles as I tried to get you to latch on. Just another sweet memory for me... :)

Love you heaps,
Mommy
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