Thursday, October 26, 2006

Another happy baby picture, yay!















This is what Tuesday spends a great deal of her time doing: kicking it on the floor, yo.















Yeah, here she's thinking "i'm tired of posing for photos, why won't he leave me to kick it on the floor, yo in peace?"















Much as i would like to provide a big, meaty post for everyone to savor, take breaks from and continue when they (you) feel ready for more, i'm also holding the baby seen in these pictures at the moment. That means i'm typing all of this with one hand, something i can do well enough for short bursts, but man does it burn the calories. ]

I will however answer photogmama's question. Sorry i didn't get to it before, i actually just forgot about it. Right now Tuesday is getting formula, unfortunately. She received nothing but breastmilk for weeks, which is difficult to pull off with breast-pumping alone. After she was diagnosed as terminal, however, Christine's milk supply fell sharply. And i'm talking sharply, here. She pumped in the morning of the day that we got the news and got quite a bit more than a feeding's worth. The next time she pumped was four or five hours later, which normally would have resulted in another feeding's worth and then some, but instead she got less than half a feeding's worth. Despite pumping even more frequently, Christine's milk supply continued to decline until it was finally deemed to be no longer worth the effort. I think that by the time she stopped she was getting, in a whole day's worth of pumping, a little more than half a feeding.

Anyway, enjoy the pics and ask any questions you might have. I'll do what i can to answer them.