Baby formula recall

It took a while to get on the Similac website, but the formula that we had been feeding Wes is on the list of recalled products. (if you had not heard, beetles & larvae were found in several containers so the product has been recalled).

I'm upset not only because this is something that I was feeding my infant, but because I wanted to exclusively breastfeed my baby and circumstances led me to supplement with formula which led my overall milk supply to decrease. I can still and do still breastfeed daily, but not exclusively. It was a catch-22 for sure. And you can be assured my breastmilk doesn't contain larvae... Caffeine and high amount of chocolate superchunk ice-cream maybe, but pretty sure no beetles!
My only consolation was that just 1 week ago, after another bout of gas pains and screaming, we changed the baby to Enfamil GentleEase on the advice of our pediatrician (which so far is working). So could Wes's problem be because of the larvae? I'm not willing to dig into the canister of formula to find out!

Making a Bears fan

My grandpa came over with a football for Wes. This is funny because I come from a very un-sporty family, but all of a sudden they are all very excited about this new boy in our family and with that is all sports stuff!
I already bought Wes his first Cubs outfit to wear next spring. We like the Cubs, the rest of my family are all Sox fans but the Sox outfit at the store was more expensive :) I wonder why??

Shhh the baby's sleeping!

Honestly, the other day I told someone that I felt like the Baby Whisperer trying to figure out what Wes wants when he's fussy (it's not always food, contrary to popular belief).  Then over the weekend I found this article in the tribune labeled Baby Whisperer.

Link to article

It looks like people -- mostly "high-performing professionals" -- get sleep consultants to help them put their babies to sleep (unlike us low-performing professionals who just grin and bear it and do it ourselves.) This is somewhere along the lines of all those crazy animal psychics who move to LA because the stars will pay anything to find out why Mitzi is pooing on the rug ("She's telling me that she'd like you to take her outside so she can poo in the grass instead.")

And seriously, the more money you make the more likely you're totally disconnected to reality and will listen to someone who tells you this (from the article):

"For those parents who can't stand to hear a baby cry, some consultants might recommend the "sleep shuffle," an elaborate system in which a parent spends a few nights sleeping on the floor next to the crib and then gradually moves farther away until he or she is sleeping in the hall outside the nursery door and eventually in his or her own bed."

When I read that to Matt, he laughed out loud, "Sleep on the floor? That is insane!"  If you want to be close to your baby so that you can attend to their needs, put a bassinet next to your bed. That way you're all sleeping in a bed. Duh!  That's what we did and just 2 weeks ago ( @ 6 weeks old), Wes has started sleeping in his own crib in his room.  We started slowly -- the 1st shift in there and the 2nd in our room, and now he's in there all night.

If you're a "high-performing professional" sleeping on the floor next to a crib (or in a hall outside the nursery), then you're an idiot, and you get paid too much.  One of the skills employers look for is problem solving, thinking outside the box, creative solutions -- hiring a person to tell you to sleep on the floor and actually doing it means you don't have any of those skills.

I do.  And I am sorely underpaid. And I sleep in my own bed.

Only $130

My mom and I found this stuffed alligator when we were out shopping today. Here I am in a furniture store and this is what I find. Looks like my priorities have changed, a little. Pricey, but Anything oversized is way cool.

Toothless Joe

Poor Mini Cooper had to have 3 teeth removed this morning. That cat has some serious dental disease not caused by deadbeat parents but by genetics. She got her two big canines removed -- the ones that make a cat look like a cat. I haven't seen the damage yet, she's hiding somewhere, but good thing she has her boyfriend Guinness because her single's ad reading " overweight and toothless" wouldn't get that many responses!

8 weeks old today

Cat stroller

Not really, but maybe he's giving us a hint that he also want to go for daily walks! This is the first that Guinness has napped in the stroller and it's been out since before the babe was home. He did go to the vet that day so maybe he just needed someplace to snuggle...