...or just some impeccable timing caught on camera. Still, it made me LOL this sleepy Saturday morning. Via haha.nu. ...
Continue reading...or just some impeccable timing caught on camera. Still, it made me LOL this sleepy Saturday morning. Via haha.nu. ...
Continue readingUnfortunately, J and I have decided to postpone Breast Fest (that's my name for my 24-hour, breast-only, no-bottles-allowed marathon) a week or two. We have always known that Claire has a "witching hour" — a period at night where a baby is extra fussy and cranky — but it has progressed to full-blown colic over the weekend. The past few nights have been hell. None of our usual tricks seem to work, and as soon as she seems to have calmed down, she will start screaming again once we relax. Her fussiness has considerably gotten worse during the daytime too. (And before you give any suggestions, please know that yes, we probably have tried it already. We have tried everything that friends have suggested,...
Continue readingI am pretty sure that I do not need a lactation consultant. Claire has a perfectly good latch. I do not have any supply issues. I am comfortable in different breastfeeding positions. I have read La Leche League's The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding front to back, and am always visiting breastfeeding support forums, so I am certainly informed. What I do have is an impatient and lazy suckler. One out of every five times, she will take from my breast and drink for a good 10+ minutes straight. It is only the other four out of five times that she will only suck for a minute or two, tire of it (because it's more work than drinking from a bottle), then proceed to start screaming. And the...
Continue readingClaire has had thrush on and off for about a month now, (I don't know why doctors prescribe Nystatin when it only works in about 50% of thrush cases) and it looks like it's spread to my boobs too. So now I am battling both thrush and mastitis. Perhaps I had thrush first which caused the mastitis? Or did my weakened immune system from the mastitis help the thrush thrive in my breasts? Either way, I'm friggin exhausted, in pain all the time, and I can barely hold my own baby due to anything even remotely brushing against my nipples or right breast causing red, hot searing pain throughout my chest. Yesterday I got a bottle of grapefruit seed extract oil and have been treating...
Continue readingYesterday I felt like crap. I was aching all over, I alternated between the chills and sweats, and I could barely walk in a straight line. (I had even failed to publish yesterday's post on Jane Eyre. It was sitting there ready to go, and all I had to do was click on the "Published" checkbox, and I completely missed it. But fear not — it's published now!) As much as I wanted to stay in bed the entire day, last night was the evening of our scheduled date night — our first since the arrival of the baby — and there was no way in hell I was going to miss it. We had a fantastic meal where I was able to gorge on...
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