It does a body good

Houston, we have milk mustaches! That's right, Eli is drinking milk (insert happy dance here). After the realization that Eli was really skinny for his age, I wracked my brain trying to think of ways to get him to drink the forbidden liquid. We had tried early on to mix it with breast milk, which backfired completely since Eli refused to drink breast milk from a cup. So I gave up on milk and instead force-fed multiple daily servings of yogurt and cheese. After the visit to the doctor, it became clear (at least to me) that water just wasn't cutting it, since it lacks both the fat and protein to make Eli bulk up. It finally occurred to me that we had tried to titrate to cow's milk using breast milk, which Eli won't drink, but had not tried water, which Eli will drink. Lo and behold it has worked! I still have to water the milk down a little bit and put ice in the cup, but he is now getting 6-8 ounces a day of whole milk, plus the all yogurt and cheese to which he had become accustomed to eating. With any luck he will actully gain a couple of pounds by his next check-up. Yippee!