24th February 2012.


Last night I decided to show Mummy that I do actually know how to breastfeed and spent all night attached to her boob - for some reason by 7am she was quite grumpy, can't imagine why!

Anyway because my eye was looking even stickier so the doctor was more important and because I quite obviously didn't need it, Mummy rang the breastfeeding clinic and cancelled our appointment but asked the councellor if we can go in a few weeks to wean me off the shields and on to the nipple.

We went to see Dr. Mackey (that is not her real name but she looks like a Chinese Mr. Mackey out of Southpark and finishes every sentence with "Mmmkay?") and she said my eye is to do with a drainage problem which will sort it's self out and Mummy is to keep on washing my eye with boiled water and squirting breast milk into it - oh the wonders of modern medicine.

Next Mummy went to see a lady and pick up some "real" nappies which we are hiring for the 1st couple of months. Then when we were meant to be at the clinic, Daddy took us to Brewsters for our lunch. We sat in the back bit with all the other screaming children and Mummy and Daddy commented that last time they were there  things were very different - that was the day they went for lunch (at the front grown-ups bit!) while waiting for Mummy's results and when they got back to the hospital they refused to let Mummy leave again until I got here. While we were in the restaurant Mummy fed me properly, no problem other than it took me about an hour to finish and all Mummy could eat was the chips and salad, by the time she thought to ask Daddy to cut up her chicken for her she'd filled up on chips so left all her protein and then an hour later was stuffing herself with kingsized snickers bars ... I'll teach her to judge other Mummies who don't get their pre-baby bodies back straight away!!!

In the evening Mummy did something terrible, she got Daddy to feed me a formula bottle before bed just so I'd sleep better!!! Personally I think she should have had a drink of wine and given me breast milk but she said it would for some reason be less frowned upon to feed me sugary cows milk than natural alcoholic Mummy-milk and besides she wanted to get a few bottles ahead in the fridge again so she forwent the wine and pumped her boobies with her new machine which actually takes less time for both boobies than it does for Daddy to make and feed me my bottle.

I had a bath with Mummy in the big bath today and really enjoyed it! Mummy said I can just have all my baths with her now for an easy life and we'll try me in my own bath again once I can hold my own head up.