An Update
Still breastfeeding. Still hating it but pretending I don’t hate it because I know it gets better once we get past this hurdle. I did cave and get the drugs, though, which is surprising since I am generally very anti-drug. Since I’m already taking the maximum advil and tylenol, why not add another drug to the mix! Drugs! Awesome!
Besides, if parenting has taught me anything, its taught me that I’m a huge hyprocrit. And I’m ok with that.
So far, my milk production seems the same but I’m holding out hope that by tomorrow something miraculous will happen and I won’t be breastfeeding every hour and a half, but rather, every three hours just like the books say should happen. It annoys me that the books say it is so, but it is not so. I want it to be so.
Babies cry more than I remember. Or maybe Callum didn’t cry as much as Claire. Or maybe I was just so tired I don’t remember. I did manage to do two loads of laundry today and clean my bathroom and am ridiculously proud. Claire cried the entire time both tasks were happening, but honestly, she cried most of the day unless she was physically attached to my body, so I don’t feel guilty. She cried through breakfast, lunch and dinner and my shower, too.
All creatures are currently sleeping, and as this post is a little nonsensical, I think I should go to sleep too.
Did I mention the two feet of snow that was on the ground this morning? Seriously! Two feet! In April! Crazy!
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The snow should at least make it feel like home since we have the same thing. As you know pretty usual for us in April. Wish I could be there with you to give you a hand…it sucks but it does get better:)
Please post nude pictures for diagnosis of beast feeding malfunctions.
I think they all look pretty much the same with the baby attached!:D
Sorry sweety, it will get better one way or another!
Hang in there.
My experience is that the second child is the absolute opposite of your first. I honestly spent the first two years of Erkie’s life saying, “your brother never did that (crying, not sleeping, mixing up day and night, etc.” My theory is that it’s God’s way of teaching us to treat them as individuals. (Dear God, I would have done that anyway. Just saying…) It’ll get better–I promise!
I remember that crazy first week. Or two, or wait, I think it was three. Kailey didn’t do the 3 hour feed thing till about 2/3 months. And there were times she’d cluster feed for hours on end in the evening. By 4/5 months she was feeding every 4 hours, and that was awesome.