4 months old!

A lifetime. That's what we hope to put between our son's birth experience and us.

Sam has been hard at work on his milk machine for the past 10 days. Not a bottle in sight! Big up for mom and the boy! He's certainly gaining weight for it - the scale tipped at 3460 grams on Wednesday last week.

There was a mixed visit to the paed last week. The good news: his head growth rate has returned to normal. The bad: he thinks all the discomfort that Sam has after feeding are related to an intolerance of something in Mich's milk. After working so hard (and succeeding) at breastfeeding for the past couple of months this was very frustrating news for us.

We're now looking for anything, and I mean anything, that will help rev up a gluten-, wheat- , dairy- and any other tasty food-free diet. Adding a daily regimen of porridge and rice to the quarantine still in place makes it feel a lot like a prison round here. Thankfully fruit is still on the menu. I steal a bite of a chocolate once Mich has gone to bed!

That's about the news for now. Ah yes - another big milestone - tomorrow we return the hired breastpump!