{"id":2468,"date":"2013-05-03T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2013-05-03T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:25:02","slug":"sol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2468","title":{"rendered":"Sol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At almost six weeks Sol&#8217;s weight is still really low. The problem seems to be his inefficient latch&#8212;he can nurse for an hour but not get that much milk. We give him a bottle right after every nursing session now. He mostly refused it at first but he seems to be getting used to it; he&#8217;s been drinking more formula in the past couple days. The doctor told us to keep doing what we&#8217;re doing and come back in a month. He seems confident that supplementing with formula will boost Sol&#8217;s growth. I hope it starts working <em>really soon.<\/em> This morning as I was nursing him I just sat there with tears rolling down my face, staring at his stick-thin arms and legs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still spending almost all my time feeding (or trying to feed) the baby, and Sam goes back to work next week. I have a lot of anxiety around that too.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I can do while nursing is read, so this blog might be all book reviews for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At almost six weeks Sol&#8217;s weight is still really low. The problem seems to be his inefficient latch&#8212;he can nurse for an hour but not get that much milk. We give him a bottle right after every nursing session now. He mostly refused it at first but he seems to be getting used to it; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}