at the original peds, we were given a huge tin of formula at the open house and the lactation consultant gave us a 4 pack of ready mix formula at the first office visit. or rather tried to, when we asked her where to get rid of some other formula we'd gotten she offered to give us just the book it was attached to. at the initial appt, sylvia was gaining weight. we had a bad night and sylvia started refusing to nurse and losing weight. at the second or third daily weigh-in, they started recommending supplementation. sylvia at that point was losing an oz a day, but never got below 90% of birthweight or became lethargic. she was always a very strong baby. to make a long story short, there were a few weeks of pumping and cup feeding and 28 oz of milk from the milkbank(to which i owe a great debt). i still sometimes think that if i had not spent so much time pumping and going to the peds (while recovering from a c-section), my supply would have increased much faster and none of the bullshit would have been necessary. in the end, sylvia figured it out. one day, she just started nursing like a champ and has been packing on the ozs and lbs ever since.

offense #2, they keep trying to get us to sign up for a trial for a rotavirus(messy, but fairly innocuous if you keep your eyes on baby's fluids)vaccine. the vaccine is a refinement of one which has a side effect of the occasional fatality!

so, rant over *clears throat*, yea, it's a good thing we switched peds.