Nipple - the word is from the mid 16th Century, and until today I didn't realize there were all types of different ones?!? As you well know EB has been having a very hard time with here eating. We fight and fight and she will only eat 40-60cc of milk. If we force her to eat more -well most of you can guess what we spend the next 30 minutes doing. (thats right cleaning up the reflux) So theres no big deal right - just feed her the 40-60cc and stop. Well that is all well and good but one we are trying to get her weight back up to 8+ pounds. Two, TIME - not sure how many of the readers of this random blog have bottle feed a child on a regular basis but when they are just a few weeks old you feed every 2-3 hours. Again many of you are thinking ok no big deal.

Well yes but when you do not realize there is a difference in nipples and you are using a level 1 infant nipple and it takes 45 minutes to 60 minutes to feed only to turn around one hour later to feed again well its begins to get very tiresome. Yet today - a day that goes down in the history of DB and the nipples --- Jeni and I bought some new BORN FREE bottles and a level 2 nipple. Could it really make that big of a difference.

Let me start by saying we got home around 4pm and I was so NOT ready to feed the little girl all I really wanted to do was take a nap but knowing there would be a fair amount of work in cleaning the bottles and boiling them for their first use I agreed to help. Jeni washed and scrubbed I boiled and mixed up the formula, and then came the moment of truth. I served up 70cc of this wonderful - Similac^® Advance totally knowing I was about to be stuck on the couch for the next 60 minutes. Then it happened, the baby started to pull and down goes the milk cc by cc (stop to change a dipper ) back to the bottle and in less than 10 minutes GONE. Praise the Lord for a larger nipple. We both agree we have a new lease on life (more sleep) who knows we might catch up on the wash.
(Note: I feed the baby cleaned the bottle and wrote this blog post with links and pictures in less than 60 minutes again thanks for the new bottles)