Saturday, October 01, 2005

Ellie's eating habits

Ellie's been eating a lot between 10 PM and midnight. Last night, though, she didn't really do that. And she slept for about 5 or 6 hours after she fed. So maybe she's working towards sleeping through the night. That would be nice for Tina, who does most of the middle-of-the-night feedings.

We've gotten plenty of coupons for Enfamil, a competitor to Similac in the formula racket. We're going to try her on that. It has twice the DHA as Similac, whatever good that does.

Ellie's still doing well with the Nuk nipples. She doesn't have to burp very much after using them, which is probably nicer for her but we don't get big huge funny burps out of her like we used to. There are tradeoffs for everything, I guess. Also, the Nuk nipples seem to help her keep all the formula in her mouth - she's not spilling as much out the sides as she was before. Which helps her eat more of what we make, which helps us monitor her feeding and save a little formula. Overall, we'd rate the Nuks as pretty dang good.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i hope you dont mind I bookmarked to read updates:) I enjoy your page. the burps will get bigger as she gets older..belive me! LOL my son has these huge deep adult burps, I remember the tiny ones back in the earlier months:) he still uses nuk nipples, might be that he eats more and sucks more air than what he used to? dunno:) probably as Elizabeth eats more, she'd burp bigger and it'd be funny again:)