End In Sight...

I had planned to have an election related post yesterday but I was too tired from Ben waking up at 5:00 a.m. since "Fall Back" on Sunday.  Ugh.  This is a universal woe for people with little kids, apparently.  I want to sleep in sooooo bad. And by "sleep in" I mean waking up at, say, 7:00 a.m.  Now the election is over so I don't feel like talking about it anymore.  I was going to reminisce about the election of 2000, when I was a senior in high school taking Government class, and I stayed up until 2:00 a.m waiting to find out who won...haha...

Today I am having some mixed feelings...Ben has been on a nursing strike for almost three weeks now and has only been drinking from a bottle.  I have been pumping and giving him milk from the freezer and production is way down...the freezer supply will only last so long so I have been intending to start incorporating formula.  I have researched this to see how other families make the switch and it is hard to find realistic advice because most of the websites with legitimate information are very pro breastfeeding and they just tell you how to increase your supply by drinking special tea and gatorade and having extended pumping sessions and just to keep trying because babies younger that a year or even older "rarely self wean"...well I have been trying for three weeks and its no use and it seems that he is self weaning.  I admit I am kind of happy at the idea of my daily clothing choices no longer including a single item from Motherhood Maternity!  And that pump can disappear as well!

On the other hand...I don't mean this to be a negative comment against formula or people who give their babies formula (obviously, I'm starting to use it myself!) but that stuff is so disgusting!  Ughhh!  I smelled it and I almost threw up!  Bleeehhhh I can't imagine how bad it tastes.  My stomach is turning just thinking about it.  I could barely bring myself to give Ben the bottle (it was a mix of formula and my milk).  I will be taking this transition slow.  After seeing how gross formula is I am glad I nursed for as long as I did just so I didn't have smell it.  Fortunately, Ben didn't seem to notice or care that he was drinking something different and drained a large bottle.  That's the important thing, I guess.  

Here are a few recent pictures from my phone...he looks deceptively happy.  He has been pretty crabby this week!