why?!?!?! Why you no sleep through the night anymore? It was going so well until a few days ago. Now Ashley wakes ip at 1:30am every night and then is waking up constantly after that until morning. Ugh! This might be the end of breast feeding since it seems like the root cause may be that Ashley is not getting enough from the boob feedings. That seems to be the big problem with breast feeding in general, since you don’t know how much the baby actually gets. We have started rice cereal, once a day, and have added it to her last feeding of the night. It’s the only thing really that has changed, but should be adding more calories so she should sleep longer. I really think its the breast feeding is failing to provide enough, so she is short of nutrition at the end of the day. Also the fact that she really doesn’t seem to be gaining weight at the appropriate rate seems to support my theory.

So the stream opinions of course are part of having a kid, and today you get your fair share, not just from the people you know, but from books, the internet, doctors, etc. It’s not coming from any one person, and the advice is still nice to hear from friends, family, and even strangers, but frankly, its almost always subjective advice. And to add to it, the number of possible ways to be “right” is astounding. Whats really irritating though is the belief of every single person/doctor/book/website/alien/chipmonk is that their opinion is not just the correct one, but that if you don’t follow their advice, you are borderline criminal.