Oh the frustration!
My MIL lives with us. I don't typically ask her to care for my 4 month old--although she wants to--because he has laryngomalacia and acid reflux. But he has been doing well and I am sick so this morning while I pumped she gave him his morning bottles. I exclusively pump (couldn't get to BF successfully even using lactation consultants) but used formula for the morning bottles since I didn't have any milk left from overnight. I mixed two, one small bottle with just an once mixed with his medicine. That is always how I give it to him, whether that ounce is formula or breastmilk. The other bottle was just formula to finish feeding him (wasn't much because he had just eaten an hour and a half before). So she is in the other room feeding him, then I see him on the monitor, sleeping in his crib. She comes in and shows me the bottles saying "he didn't want the medicine one, he spit it out, so I gave him the other and now he is sleeping." WHAT? He always drinks that bottle, no issue. And that medicine is important, why did you not tell me THEN so I could have done it myself! You just figured he could skip his timed dose? Now I have to estimate if he drank any of the bottle and whether or not to try and give him a full or partial dose when he wakes up, wasting both the formula and the medicine from the other bottle.
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