Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Baby Nursing Miracles!

My daughter gave birth to her baby the 7th of November and he couldn't get it together to latch on to nurse.  His muscles in his tongue wouldn't work right, you might call it a lazy tongue...  Many tears and several frustrating days later after working with a lactation specialist my daughter switched to using the bottle.  With the bottle we could convince him to put his tongue down and figure out how to suck.  Eleven weeks she has been faithfully pumping all of his milk and using the bottle, but yesterday her pump wasn't functioning right and she tried one more time to see if he would nurse - and he did!  She called me as he was happily sleeping after having his first good meal that wasn't from a bottle. That means after weeks of super hard work she just got  several hours a day given back to her life.  Happy baby, Happy mommy and Very happy Grandma.

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