We Have A Winner!

I have quite the collection of Avent feeding supplies – both bottles and disposable nursers, plus a couple of sippy cups – because I have an Avent Isis pump. (Is this too much information?) We’ve given Carrie a couple of bottles, but the last one was two months ago. Silly me, I didn’t think there would be any issues, but she absolutely refused to take a bottle while my parents watched her during my rehearsal Monday night. I tried giving her another bottle yesterday, and it looked as though her real gripe with the whole thing was that she needs to be laying down to take a bottle. (We won’t go into the fact that she lays down to nurse – apparently that’s ok.)

I ended up going to Target yesterday to find a different type of bottle and came home with the Playtex VentAire bottle, figuring that because it’s angled, she’d be able to sit up more and might raise fewer objections to the whole experience. I gave her about an ounce in it this morning, and she took it with no complaints. I left her and the new bottle with my parents this evening while I went off to yet another rehearsal. When I called my mom during a break to make sure that Carrie had managed to have her dinner, guess what? She was feeding herself. Sitting in her little rocking chair, kicking her feet, and holding her own bottle!

Apparently, I’m out of a job. Well, not really, but I do feel much better about the fact that Carrie won’t starve while I’m a little busier than usual for these next couple of weeks. The show starts two weeks from tomorrow!