We had our appointment with her this morning. I explained to her what was going on (crying while feeding, fussy most of the rest of the time, etc) and then she watched me feed. But, before I fed him, she weighed him. Then I fed for 15 minutes while she made up a computer chart to graph his growth. Then, after determining that he was pretty much asleep and not feeding anymore, I took him off and she weighed him again. Well, lo and behold....he gained 6.1 OUNCES! Yes, that means that he ate that much at that one feeding! I couldn't believe it. And here I was thinking that I wasn't feeding him enough! She told me that he is just at a point where he needs to space out his feedings and that he can probably go 4-5 hours between meals rather than the 3 hour schedule that I was still following from when he was younger (this was proven by the fact that she wanted him to come into the 8:30 appt without eating...usually I would feed him at 7 when he woke up, but this morning I didn't and I was worried that he would be starving and totally crabby. But, by the time that we got to the feeding part of the appointment, it was 9am, which means that he went from 4am-9am without food and was perfectly fine with that. Only right before I fed at the appt. was he starting to get fussy, and that was probably just because she was weighing him and doing things he didn't like). So, the moral of the story is that I was stuffing my poor child and he was telling me that that pissed him off by crying. What a smart boy! What a silly mommy!

So this week I am throwing out the clock and waiting until he tells me that he is hungry in order to establish a new feeding pattern/schedule. I know I worry a lot (Cameron makes fun of me), but it really is stressful. I just want to do everything right and make sure that he is healthy and happy. That is my main focus. But, I do need to relax and go with the flow a bit more, I realize this now and will try my best to worry less and know that I am doing the best I know how. -- mam