The same but somehow better

We had a couple of decent nights this Sunday and Monday and then another awful one last night. Baby Peanut slept from 8:40 to 1:40 like a champ, but I was up until almost midnight watching a movie with the hubby. Staying up late, bad idea! After 1:40 he was up every hour or so. Nghhhh.

Yet I don't feel quite so bad this morning. I guess our only-three-feeding-sessions nights got me some air back.

I'm fighting a cold, though, which was to be expected. My immune system is doing what it can, but I can't ask for miracles! Sleep deprivation and depression are not conductive to great health.

We finally discovered why the baby will take water but not expressed milk from a bottle or his sippy cup. It got to the point where he would cry as soon as he saw the bottle, so we gave up on bottles entirely. I still had some bags of frozen milk in the fridge, since I thought they would be needed when I returned to school, and yesterday I was meeting a new client and it got late ans I couldn't come to feed baby Peanut before class, so I told mom to take a bag from the freezer.

When I came back, baby Peanut had not taken anything but a sip from the milk on the sippy cup, though he had taken some water. We were going to throw the thawed milk out and then it occurred to me to taste it. Yukk!!!! So gross! Mom tasted it too and she was disgusted, it tasted a bit like fridge and plastic but a lot like soap. Grosssssss! No wonder the baby will not take any frozen milk! I've been reading about it and it's apparently an excess of lipase, an enzyme that breast milk has to break down fats so they are easier to digest. It seems to be uncommon to have an excess, but then the forums are full of women asking whyyy foes my frozen stash taste like asssss???

So that's one mystery solved! Deactivating lipase implies scalding the freshly pumped milk before freezing it and zzzzZzzzZzz forget it. Baby Peanut waits for me to eat, whatever. It's good to know that's the issue, though, so next time we leave the baby with our parents for sitting I'll know to leave a fresh bottle of milk instead of pumping the day before. It only takes a few hours in the fridge or at room temperature for lipase to change the taste, so I guess the few bags I have left in the freezer are going to the trash.

Baby Peanut totally pooped on his dad yesterday. First time for everything! We went out to a cafe to get panini and he decided that was a good moment to finally poop after 4 days of no luck. I cracked up, Cookie was mortified/grossed/freaking out, it leaked through the diaper, the onesie and through Cookie's pants. We had to change the baby on one of the tables. We used our travel changer but still. Sorry, cafe owners! We are gross people! The baby was so much happier after that, though! And everybody knows this happy baby makes this momma happy :)