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Jack is the sort of child
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when we decide to have children,
and the sort of child
less experienced parents
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Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004 - Dad
Misti has always been a food nazi. Once she found out she was pregnant, our regularly healthy diet became even healthier. She researched the net for up-to date information on nutrition and foetal development and we made our healthy eating habits even healthier.
The end result was a very well nourished baby boy.
It is well known that a well nourished newborn child does not need to eat for 24 to 48 hours, allowing plenty of time for mother�s milk to come in and baby to adjust to the new world.
Jack spent the last 5 weeks in-utero in the engaged position. This put a lot of pressure on his skull. After his birth, that pressure was released, and it is my belief that this sudden lack of pressure caused Jack a lot of pain for the first 10 or 20 hours of his life. He was born in the afternoon, and by next morning, his discomfort had abated.
Misti was determined to breast-feed, but Jack seemed not to be interested in food at first. Again, I believe that his head hurt too much for him to be very interested in food. However, the hospital staff took his crying to mean that he was hungry, and his disinterest in the nipple to mean that he could not nurse.
They convinced Misti to give him a couple of ounces of formula in the middle of the night. He spent the next day spray-painting the hospital ward with it.
We got Jack home that night, and I promptly got Misti a large can of Guinness Stout and she pumped furiously, hoping to bring her milk in earlier.
What does all this have to do with Jack and food?
In the throes of working out why this child wouldn�t eat, I glanced over his natal chart. I announced to Misti that he was not as much hungry as lazy and that he would nurse like a champion when her milk came in. (Astrology is a very useful tool at times like this.) He saw no point in sucking a nipple that was only going to give up a drop of colostrum, Jack wanted a payoff for his work!!.
Sure enough, at 9 am on the May 8, just over 40 hours after he was born, Misti�s milk came in and Jack latched on and stayed on.
He has loved food ever since, though he rarely over-eats.
Take Care
Rod
