One desperate mom

Most of you know my stance on junk food and sugar for Addi. Pretty much she gets desserts and treats very occasionally and I don't add extra sugar into things she eats. I'm pretty strict about what goes into her mouth. That being said, read on to what I did to Jackson this morning...

We have been trying for months now to get Jackson to take a bottle. He'll take it a little bit sometimes but other times he acts like I'm trying to force him to drink liquid soap. We have tried everything under the sun to get that boy to have good feelings about the bottle but he'll have none of it and its pretty important to us that he change his mind. I decided that he was going to have a bottle for his first feeding of the day each day or he could go hungry. After at least 30 minutes of screaming/settling/screaming/settling/screaming/settling and I was ready to accept the fact that I'd never be away from Jackson for more than a few hours at a time, I remembered something that Chad Bartling (Luke's dad) did while they were at the lake. See, Luke didn't want to take his paci and go to sleep so Chad, being the DAD that he is plunked that pacifier into the sugar bowl and popped into Luke's mouth. Needless to say, I was shocked that he gave his baby sugar (gasp!) and threatened Jeff that he better NEVER do that...but Luke did take the pacifier. Anyways, the crying obviously caused some temporary insanity this morning because I put some sugar on my finger and wiped it in Jackson's mouth. He promptly stopped crying and wiggled his little tongue around to lick every bit of sugar off his lips then opened up for more. I put some on the bottle nipple...he sucked the sugar right off and even took a few drinks of milk before spitting it back out and opening up for more. We repeated this act several times with more and more space in between the sugar applications. Before long, we had an empty bottle and a very happy baby. We'll see if he does better tomorrow with less sugar. If it works, I guess I'll slowly be weaning him off sugar nipples the next couple of days. Go ahead and judge...I know I would be : )