Thursday October 22nd, day 289

Luca, the messiest eater ever. In this picture you can't see the food sprayed all over the wall as well.

Luca has started to sleep through the night!!! I can't believe how great this is! He sleeps from around 7:30pm to 6am. He's taking a nap on the way to daycare around 8:30 that I think we could add onto his night so he might sleep until 7am. Right now we're so happy he's able to fall back asleep on his own when he wakes in the night that we don't want to mess with the mornings yet! Maybe next week we'll work on them and gradually try to leave him in his crib at 6am until 7am and see if he falls back asleep for good.

He's still not taking formula. I'm thinking about putting him on a breast milk strike until he gets used to formula. I'll pump to keep my supply. The only thing that worries me about this is that he won't get as many antibodies out of formula and even if I continue to breast feed once a day, I'm not sure it'll be enough. He's bringing home a steady stream of colds from the daycare, this week it's pink eye which kept us both home for a couple days (not to mention the 4 hour wait at the drop-in clinic to see a doctor), so I think my breast milk is still very important for him. I just want to be able to drink formula and stay at the daycare the full day instead of finishing at around 2pm everyday.