harper sucks.

only literally!!!!

she learned how to suck on a binky on tuesday and today she learned how to eat from a bottle!!!

Establishing the breastfeeding before introducing the binky and bottle is very important or else babies get confused with how to suck. 3 weeks old is usually a safe time to give them the other stuff. When babies breastfeed they suck using the back of their mouths and when they bottle feed they suck with the front of their mouths. And it seemed like it was exactly right timing because the breastfeeding really turn a huge corner just this week. It's a pretty big accomplishment for a little baby. It took her a couple hours to figure out the binky and only a couple minutes to learn the bottle.

Surprisingly, I was a little concerned with the bottle feeding. I was nervous she would feel abandoned by me, although we're only feeding her with a bottle when we go out and 1 of the nighttime feedings. But I've already fed her once since her 1st bottle feeding and she did perfect. 3 weeks ago I never would have guessed I would enjoy breastfeeding. It came as a complete shock to me.

We are very proud of Harper for doing so well! It's funny to me how proud parents get of their little ones for the tiniest things. We praise her for a good burp, a big poo, sleeping for more than 2 hours, holding her head up, being awake for so much, for smiling and the list could go on and on. We even praise her for her loud cries. She's got some lungs on her!!!

If you want to see her eating from a bottle for the 1st time you can go to youtube.com/familyosburn.