The Trixie Update

We have spent the last couple of days getting Trixie acclimated to the new Baby Bjorn carrier. It’s one of the ones that strap to your chest and allows the wearer to reclaim use of both hands. Trixie seemed a little uncertain the first few days, but she is currently sleeping in it which is the best you can hope for. The only downside is that she radiates so much heat, that it’s like having a nuclear reactor strapped to your chest. Our little thermophile doesn’t seem to mind this hostile environment, but I am looking forward to winter.

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Trixie has started down the road to drool-dom. It’s funny because there are really a lot of things that babies can’t do at first — things that seem so fundamental, that it’s surprising to discover they are without the ability. Drooling and crying fall in this category. By crying I mean the ability to produce tears, not the ability to scream, which Trixie has completely mastered. Incidentally, she should begin producing tears soon. Droolwise, she’s begun to make cute little spit bubbles with an occasional rogue stream. Unfortunately, it is my understanding that soon she will be secreting fluid like one of the xenomorphs from “Aliens.”

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The data collected here was extremely helpful during the first 8 days as it predicted an average of about 133 minutes daily nursing. However, once Trixie stumbled across the idea of using Jennifer as a human pacifier, everything is thrown out the window. Even after we constrained the 200 plus minute feedings, we were unable to discount comfort feeding. We are no longer collecting this type of data.

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Accurately recording Trixie’s breast feeding activity has proven impossible. She is clearly eating plenty based on the sheer amount of waste generated, but she acts like she’s starving and frantically makes the hand in mouth gesture all the time.

We’ve resorted to giving her a bottle of breast milk in the evening hours to try to determine if she’s really hungry. She takes the bottle great and will swallow a ton and then we’ll top her off later on. So far this approach has worked pretty well and prevented her from spiraling into a screaming frenzy.

The downside from a information perspective is that the “minutes nursed” charts are meaningless. She is clearly comfort nursing. She currently needs about 20 oz. of milk a day and she’s getting 4-5 by the bottle. Aside from this 25/75 ratio there’s not much more of interest regarding her intake. Waste however, is another story. Charts are forthcoming.

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Starting today, a new Trixie related image will be posted every day at midnight EST. You can always get to it from this page or bookmark www.trixieupdate.com/tpod.

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That’s how long it took after her bath tonight before Trixie completely covered herself (and a loadful of linens) with a nice thick coating of urine, milk and poop.

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Sleeping last night was horrible. She went to sleep at 1:00am. Then fed at 4:15, 5:00, 8:15, 9:00 and we finally got up around noon. We both feel sick. She’s happy as a clam.

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We gave Trixie a bath around 8:30 tonight in hopes of relaxing her and trying to get her to fall asleep earlier. She took the bath fine, but proceeded to scream her head off for the next 3 hours. However, in the end we won. She is asleep now, almost an hour earlier than normal.

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Trixie is a very sneaky baby. After a second day of unusual feeding data, we now realize that the feeding spike reported earlier is not an accurate representation of Trixie’s milk intake. She’s been using Jennifer as a human pacifier, latching on for 20-30 minutes at a time but not swallowing anything. Unfortunately for ‘little miss dairy queen’, the data revealed the statistical anomaly and allowed us to regain the upper hand… for now.

In response we have started rigorously enforcing her feeding habits — if she starts fruiting around or dozes off, she’s outta there! On a related note, I have now started tracking her waste products since measuring the intake has proven unreliable.

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Trixie surprised us yesterday when she demanded 203 total minutes of breastfeeding, sharply exceeding the average of 133.25 minutes obtained over the previous eight days. This turn of events made for a rather long and fussy day.

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