TGI- Monday!!! I bet you don’t hear or say that often but after the weekend I had, I’m so glad Monday is here!! It was supposed to be a long family weekend spend out and about having fun. Instead, we spent every morning and afternoon inside what felt like some sort of torture chamber. Only I wasn’t the one being tortured. No one was being tortured, but for a mother unable to go to her child for all the right reasons… it felt like it to me.
For the last few weeks, we’d tried getting my son to take a bottle. He would have no part of it. Finally, the last weekend before I am supposed to return to work, we had to try a bit harder. We were advised to let my husband be the one to give him a bottle, not me. In fact, I was told not to even be in the room. Four rooms away, I still felt like I was right in front of him. All I could hear was his crying as he resisted every single drop.
Not listening to my instints… or my urge to go to him immediately seemed like it would kill me. I learned a lot this weekend. My little guy is strong willed. I wonder where he gets that? This was certainly a test I did not want to take but one we finally all passed. After three days and at the most, 14 hours without eating, he took a bottle. I just hope he keeps at it so I can take a piece of mind with me when I return to work, not worrying about whether he’ll wait until I get home to eat every day…. At least I hope.
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