Proof of Paternity?

Coincidence? Maybe not. I'm not sure if this would be accepted in court as proof of paternity, but it seems pretty clear-cut to me... Same cowlick. Hope she doesn't get my beard!

Olivia's getting better at breastfeeding, and yesterday she got to spend a few hours with no tube in her nose when she pulled it out just before a feeding. The way you can tell the tube is in her stomach is to test the ph of whatever you can draw out of the tube. If it's 5 or lower, you're in the right place, but if it's 6 or above, the tube might be in her lungs, which of course would be bad if you tried to put some milk down the tube. So we test this every time we feed her just to make sure the tube hasn't moved since the last time. Thing is, if she's just had a big meal of breastmilk, her stomach hasn't had the time to change the ph of the contents, and there's some ambiguity about where the tube is.

All of that was a long way to explain that we (us and the nursing staff) decided that since she was due to be fed, we didn't want to agitate her too much by putting a new tube in (she really doesn't like it and I'm not surprised). So the 'pressure' was on to have her get a good meal by breast alone. And she did beautifully! It's almost as though she realized that the alternative was to have that tube stuck in her nose again and really gave it a full effort.

Of course, since she's so small still the tube had to go back in eventually. It was a little tempting to say "well, maybe she doens't need it anymore?", but she needs lots of milk for growing.

And she gained another ounce- she's up to 4 pounds 5 ounces! nice. Ok, off for now...