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chanaleh
Every time we give Aria a bottle, we've been using a flannel receiving blanket as a combination bib and burp cloth. Tuck it all the way around her neck and use it to catch any drips or wipe her face.
After four or five weeks of this, we discovered something. Once she starts raging with hunger ("she's a starver!" as my brother said), when trying to buy a precious few minutes of bottle prep time, we can set her in her bassinet or bouncy chair and tuck the same blanket around her neck, and most of the time she will immediately stop screaming. If we then offer her a pacifier, she will settle down to suck contentedly, sometimes for a whole three or four minutes (until it occurs to her she's not actually getting fed yet).
Which is to say, we have accidentally conditioned her to a security blanket. I may need a new Linus icon. :-}
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In other news, she's eight weeks old today. And I am going back to work full-time starting tomorrow (Daddy will continue to work from home while taking care of her during the day). I'm sure it's going to be an adjustment for everyone, not least me, as I get reacquainted with holding thoughts in the front of my mind beyond "when was babykins last fed?"...
After four or five weeks of this, we discovered something. Once she starts raging with hunger ("she's a starver!" as my brother said), when trying to buy a precious few minutes of bottle prep time, we can set her in her bassinet or bouncy chair and tuck the same blanket around her neck, and most of the time she will immediately stop screaming. If we then offer her a pacifier, she will settle down to suck contentedly, sometimes for a whole three or four minutes (until it occurs to her she's not actually getting fed yet).
Which is to say, we have accidentally conditioned her to a security blanket. I may need a new Linus icon. :-}
***
In other news, she's eight weeks old today. And I am going back to work full-time starting tomorrow (Daddy will continue to work from home while taking care of her during the day). I'm sure it's going to be an adjustment for everyone, not least me, as I get reacquainted with holding thoughts in the front of my mind beyond "when was babykins last fed?"...