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Spittin' Up

i had hoped that baby two would be like mimi was and not be a spitter (there has only been three occasions in mimi's entire 4 years that she has ever spit up/vomitted. once was when she was just an infant, she was soooo colicky that we went through 4 bottles of formula to try to appease her crying and it projectile vomitted out when i sat her up to burp her. the second time, when mimi was one, some how a leaf had blown into the car and she put it in her mouth, gagged on it and threw up all over herself. and the last time was last year, when she contracted a stomach bug and got up in the middle of the night not feeling well, went into the bathroom and vomitted all over the bathroom floor.) well, it seems, despite my hopes for the same with kid 2, that Osten is in fact a spitter.

today he completely covered my chest with spit up milk. and not just spit up formula, but spit up a bunch of breast milk...my supply is still dangerously low...almost borderline nonexistant (less than an ounce!), and after more than half an hour of nursing, i'm holding the kid, and suddenly he gives a short belch, and then pukes up pretty much all of the precious breastmilk he drank down...i considered that stuff liquid gold and it was so wasteful to have it come back up again. *sigh!*

it looks like i will be one of those moms walking around with spit up on their clothes, after all! that was a bullet i dodged the first time around as mom with mimi, but looks like i am not so lucky this time! on the positive side though, Ozzy does seem to be a bit less colicky than mimi...but then again we have not left the 'honeymoon' phase just yet, so things can change! i'll report back in another couple of weeks!

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