zuzu's weekend - 1

Zuzu has been a good nursling since birth, relishing her lip-smacking meals from mom and sometimes snacking all day. But I will admit that every once in a while, when I’m nursing for the umpteenth time that day and so tired that I can’t think of any more songs to sing to Zuzu, or my water glass is just out of reach, or the phone that I can’t answer rings yet again, or the pile of pending laundry seems to be staring me down, I wish for one thing: that Ty could lactate. Not all the time, but maybe just on occasion -- sort of like a chef’s special for Zuzu.

On Saturday I got my wish (sort of). Ty gave Zuzu her first bottle of expressed milk. About half of it traveled in her mouth, over her tongue, down her chin and onto her “i love mommy” bib, but considering it was the first time in her life that she’d ever encountered a bottle, she (and Ty) did pretty well.