OK, well, A.J. is better still...eating better, but still needing to be supplemented with formula. Also, he's definitely developing his sense of taste...he was originally fed the pre-mixed Similac Advanced in the hospital, and they sent some bottles of it home with us. That stuff smells intensely milky and sweet (cut it out, sickos). We went out and bought the powder form of Similac Advanced, and he was eating it fine for several days.

Then, he started to kind of just get disinterested in the formula. This puzzled me...it took me literally 30-45 minutes, with almost constant stimulation, to prevent him from falling asleep with the bottle in his mouth. Although, if I took it away and went to put him to bed, he'd get fidgety and wake up and start sucking the air and crying a bit. So he was hungry, but not interested. I deduced that maybe the powdered form of the Similac (which we WERE mixing properly) didn't taste good (or good enough) to him.

So we asked our lac specialist during our visit yesterday if we could take another couple bottles home of the premixed stuff. She said that was OK, and he's guzzled it down every time. Suffice to say, I went to buy some of it at Babies R Us on the way home from work. It's nice to be seemingly right. :) We'll see how long that lasts.

Hell, Gina's making a bit more progress (very slowly) in terms of milk production though, so maybe we won't even have to worry about formula soon. It'd save us some time and a lot of effort.

Hope you're all doing well!