I'm a bumbling buffoon when it comes to feeding Bea from the bottle. Either I startle her too much before I can even get the nipple to her lips and she screams as though I've just given her a vaccination (did that on the 2-month mark and man did she wail), or I just don't have enough of the mommy caress finesse to get her latched (which I don't).Mama started pumping earlier than our midwife wanted her to, but it takes time to get baby on the bottle no matter when you start. My daddy pals at DadLabs gave me some good recommendations about finding the right bottle/nipple combo, and all of Amy's baby reading and friend and family advice.
I have had some success, however, and we'll keep working hard on it since we're close to Mama going back to work. And thankfully we think we found the right nanny with lots of baby raising experience, including bottle feeding, which will make the initial transition a little easier.
I hope. Keep your fingers crossed.
We're also coming up on the big 3-month milestone and Bea is an active little bugaboo. She's hitting all her milestones so far and that makes us very happy parents! As a busy new working daddy I try to be mindful and stay in the moment with my baby, but man I get freaked out sometimes that I'm missing something, anything – real big.
Keeping up with the red bouncing ball that hits our lifetime keywords like a xylophone on speed isn't easy.
And those keywords are crucial when baby is learning language. Mama and my Caveman's Guide to Baby's First Year continue to educate this buffoon:
Talk to the little bugaboo about anything and everything (no cursing).
Tell the baby stores; read to her (that's an easy one for us).
Lots of music and singing (Daddy K, meet Baby Einstein).
Exposing her to other people and places (that's also an easy one for Mr. and Mrs. Social Butterfly).
Play with toys that help baby understand shapes and space (doing that more and more).
Check. Now when can I start her on drum lessons (so I can start too)?
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