The Pockey

I told myself that I would never use a pacifier(pockey) when I had decided to breastfeed. I had heard that using them would create nipple confusion and it would be harder for her to successfully breastfeed. After going through a hard time with breastfeeding in the beginning my lactation consultant gave me a nipple shield and told me to try that. Laney immediately took to it! When we went through the hard time with her not sleeping in her bassinet, my mom told me that a pockey would do wonders. I then put it in her mouth just to see if it would help. Heck, I knew there could be no nipple confusion because she was already breastfeeding from a rubber nipple. I think I have now created a monster. She is by far the cutest monster I have ever seen. She loves her pockey. I have posted a few pics of her with it. She holds on to it like someone is going to take it from her, it is sooooo precious!!! We got the name pockey from Daddy, he used to call it that when he was little I thought it was so cute it just stuck!!!



Aunt Jekas came in town yesterday. Rocky, Laney and I all went and got her from the airport in Birmingham. Since the airport is 3 hours away we left the night before and stayed in a hotel and picked her up the next morning. She did really well in the hotel that night. Jekas will be here till Wednesday and will be an amazing help to me so I can get some much needed things done. I will post pictures of Aunt Jekas and Laney in the next blog.

We are also really excited about Grammie coming to see Laney. Grammie, Pop, Chad, and Jonathan have not seen Laney yet and I know they are chomping at the bits to get here. Grammie will be here on Tuesday and will stay for a week and then they will all come the first part of June(if Pop can wait that long). I will keep ya'll updated as things happen.

Laney is getting so big and it just seems like yesterday we were coming home from the hospital. Man time really does fly!!!