My kid SUCKS!

Since we came home from the hospital Steph's been having some ups and downs with breastfeeding, and was starting to get rather sore and frustrated. So after two days (on Wednesday) we called in the big guns... we had the lactation consultant who taught our breastfeeding class (Judy Long, of Breastfeeding Network) come to our house to give us some advice. Let me just say, this was some of the best money we've spent on the boy yet. We learned the following things during this consultation:

• After only 5 days Evan has the sucking ability of a 2-month old. I never thought I'd speak of how much my child sucks with such pride.
• Evan eats like a pig. Through the course of one feeding while Judy was at our house, which included one big spit-up, he put on 2.5 ounces, which is 2% of his body weight. That's the equivalent of a 150-pound adult eating 3 pounds of hamburger. Since then we've stopped tracking his ins and outs... he's growing just fine.
• The combination of power sucking and voracious eating makes Evan a barracuda baby. Not that this is an official term or anything, but it helps explain why Steph is sore.
  

By the way, if there are any moms in Silicon Valley who are having trouble nursing and want some help (information and instruction only... she's not a wet nurse!) we recommend Judy without reservation. Get in touch with us if you'd like her contact info.

This picture was probably taken just after the little guy finished eating, so it's not necessarily so relevant to this post. We don't really have any photos of breastfeeding, though, and even if we did I don't think I'd be putting them here. It is food-related, though, and cute: