Corbin and I were visited by the public health nurse yesterday. She stopped in for a bit to weigh him and to talk to me about colick. It's very interesting to hear the different theories about what colick is and why it happens. I've read everything from it being similar to post traumatic stress disorder (i.e., baby is really missing the womb), to problems with the digestive or nervous systems. The nurse said I was right to cut dairy from my diet (I haven't cut it out completely but I barely drink milk and stick to mint or other herbal teas). Hopefully, Corbin will not be lactos intolerant when he is older, but I've never really saw the importance of drinking cow's milk anyway.

Humans are the only species that consume milk made by another animal. Milk is made to nourish babies, be they goats or cows or human younglings, and I don't think adults have much business drinking it. If I must drink it, I buy organic milk which costs a fortune but is worth it for the absence of hormones.

I do, however, have a weakness for cheese in many flavours and varieties. I just try not to think of how it's made, and the same goes for yogurt.

I never thought I'd get through it, but Corbin is 9 weeks old so hopefully he'll start to grow out of the colick in another month or so. The nurse's theory is that breastfed babies' colick is caused when they are taken from the breast before it is completely emptied and switched to the other breast without getting the hindmilk which has more calories than the foremilk and aides in the digestion of glucose and other things in the foremilk that may be hard on an infants' tummy. Corbin has always nursed only on one side, except when he's going through a growth spurt and requires more milk than usual per feeding. If I were to take him off the breast before he was ready, he would refuse to take the other breast and become very disgruntled. So, I offer the other side during feedings, and if he doesn't take it, I pump it and make sure to switch to the other side the next time I feed him.

Corbin did have a growth spurt a few weeks back. At his six-week checkup, which was actually about two and a half weeks ago, he weighed 9 pounds and 14 ounces. Yesterday, he was 11 pounds and 3 ounces. I think he is going to be a big boy.

He "talks" more and more every day. He can just make an "ah" sound, but I've never known one sound could be inflected so many ways. If this typepad editor would cooperate, I'd upload more photos and an audio file I have of him cooing, but every time I click on "inser file", nothing happens. So, until I figure it out, there won't be any frills added to my posts.