ok where to begin.... the last 3 days have been very stressful.... On Thursday I took Aubrey for her doctor appointment to see if they could tell me why she has been so cranky... they weighed her and she had gone from 15lb 5 oz at 6 months to 13lbs 7oz at 7.5 months... she had dropped right off the curve chart
So they asked me to weigh her, nurse her then weigh her again, she only got 10ml off me. Being pregnant and nursing my milk has gone, and I didn't know... so basically she had been starving
They admitted us to the hospital right away. My Dr. told me I had to stop breastfeeding her and get her on the bottle with some formula... but she wouldn't take bottles, she's been breastfeed exclusively since birth... The nurses had to basically force her to take the bottles, and after a day of not eating she finally gave in...
This was so hard to watch and I cried for the whole time cause I feel so guilty(and still do) that my poor baby wasn't getting enough food... This explains why she was constantly nursing and up every hour in the night...
We got home last night and she is taking the formula well, and even only woke every 4 hours in the night last night! It feels like I brought a different baby home, she's happy again!
Sorry for the long story, it's been such a hard few days and I'm not ready to tell many people in real life because I feel so guilty about this.
On the plus side, the nurse in the hospital let me hear my babies heart beat, I think she knew I needed cheering up.