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Dear Sophia,

You've started nursing directly again :) I do have to trick you a little and wait until you're sleepy before I give it. But at least you're nursing again.

There's a lesson to be learned here.

When I first found out that you preferred the bottle, I was fine with it, until I realized that we won't have that cute face to face moment when you nurse, and then I decided not to allow that.

This face

So I insisted on giving you my breast instead of the bottle, and you'd cry and cry and scream and cry. Which broke my heart. We'd fight about it but it was a fight I never won because always in the end, I would give in and give you the bottle. It was like I was making you cry for nothing.

Once I actually asked your yaya Letty to leave the room because she kept telling me that we should give you the bottle because you were already so agitated. Which I already knew. As soon as she left I locked the door and gave you the bottle, and of course you stopped. A few seconds later you closed your eyes and I decided to try again then. It worked. So that was the last time we fought.


So anyway, back to the lesson.

You will not always get your way. It's important that you learn how to make things work for you.

(Kuya Sean doesn't eat gulay, but he must, so we taught him to hide his gulay in the other ulam so he doesn't taste it)