Jenn (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} anastrianna) wrote,@ 2004-06-01 14:03:00 |
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Goodnight Sweetheart...
Well, we had quite a weekend. Since Emily couldn’t go to daycare Friday, I stayed home with her. (You KNOW I hated that! :-P ) She was very good. A little fussy, but she took two long naps. A 2 hour one in the morning and a 3 hour in the afternoon. She was SUPER fussy at nights though, all weekend long. We didn’t get a whole lot of sleep! Saturday, we took her for her first visit to the pool. She put on her pimp hat and swim diaper and we were off. (We got her this little purple and pink hat for babies for in the sun and it looks like a little pimpin’ hat. :) She didn’t hate it, but she wasn’t excited about it either. She was a little tired, so that could have been it.
We also started her on cereal this weekend. She’s still spittin’ it out, but that’s okay too. She’s incredibly cute doing it. :) She broke out in a little rash Sunday though and it got worse on Monday. We’d also given her some of the Nestle formula since we’d bought it, so we’re not sure if it was that, the cereal, sun block, chlorine, or just the shots that caused it. So we’re backing off all of those and we’ll slowly add them back in to see if it was something other than the shots.
I’ve got a Mothers and More meeting this evening. I’m excited. Tracy’s going to go with me. We also have a subdivision cook out on Saturday. That should be fun and we’ll get to meet some of our neighbors. The next weekend, Laurie comes to visit. She should be around 16 weeks now! She finds out the sex this month. The NEXT weekend, Chris’s parents are coming to baby-sit, so Chris and I can do another date night! Yea!
I’ve also decided to give up breastfeeding. I was still feeling pretty conflicted about it but I talked about it with my therapist today and I feel better. She really didn’t say all that much different from what Chris or the ladies on the message board said, but somehow, I feel better. I’m resenting all this pumping I have to do with none of the sweet bonding rewards that most nursing mothers have. I don’t want that resentment to carry over to Emily. Plus, if I stop pumping, I’ll have more time to spend feeding Emily myself. Also, any immunities that I have to give her, she’s probably already gotten from my first 4 months of breastfeeding. I’m going to try my best to not feel bad about this. There are also several selfish reasons for me to quit: I can drink again (not that I was ever a big drinker but it’s been a year and a half since I’ve had anything!!), I don’t have to lug this stupid pump around, I don’t have to tied down to the thing either, having to work around a pumping schedule or make sure I pump before I go out, I won’t have to get up in the middle of the night to pump because Emily’s slept through the night and/or I forgot to do it just before bed… So, what I’m doing to stop is to just pump when I’m feeling really full (or in pain, but hopefully I’ll catch it before then) and then trying to just pump enough to relieve the pressure. I’m not sure how you’re actually supposed to do it, but this seems reasonable to me.
Well, we had quite a weekend. Since Emily couldn’t go to daycare Friday, I stayed home with her. (You KNOW I hated that! :-P ) She was very good. A little fussy, but she took two long naps. A 2 hour one in the morning and a 3 hour in the afternoon. She was SUPER fussy at nights though, all weekend long. We didn’t get a whole lot of sleep! Saturday, we took her for her first visit to the pool. She put on her pimp hat and swim diaper and we were off. (We got her this little purple and pink hat for babies for in the sun and it looks like a little pimpin’ hat. :) She didn’t hate it, but she wasn’t excited about it either. She was a little tired, so that could have been it.
We also started her on cereal this weekend. She’s still spittin’ it out, but that’s okay too. She’s incredibly cute doing it. :) She broke out in a little rash Sunday though and it got worse on Monday. We’d also given her some of the Nestle formula since we’d bought it, so we’re not sure if it was that, the cereal, sun block, chlorine, or just the shots that caused it. So we’re backing off all of those and we’ll slowly add them back in to see if it was something other than the shots.
I’ve got a Mothers and More meeting this evening. I’m excited. Tracy’s going to go with me. We also have a subdivision cook out on Saturday. That should be fun and we’ll get to meet some of our neighbors. The next weekend, Laurie comes to visit. She should be around 16 weeks now! She finds out the sex this month. The NEXT weekend, Chris’s parents are coming to baby-sit, so Chris and I can do another date night! Yea!
I’ve also decided to give up breastfeeding. I was still feeling pretty conflicted about it but I talked about it with my therapist today and I feel better. She really didn’t say all that much different from what Chris or the ladies on the message board said, but somehow, I feel better. I’m resenting all this pumping I have to do with none of the sweet bonding rewards that most nursing mothers have. I don’t want that resentment to carry over to Emily. Plus, if I stop pumping, I’ll have more time to spend feeding Emily myself. Also, any immunities that I have to give her, she’s probably already gotten from my first 4 months of breastfeeding. I’m going to try my best to not feel bad about this. There are also several selfish reasons for me to quit: I can drink again (not that I was ever a big drinker but it’s been a year and a half since I’ve had anything!!), I don’t have to lug this stupid pump around, I don’t have to tied down to the thing either, having to work around a pumping schedule or make sure I pump before I go out, I won’t have to get up in the middle of the night to pump because Emily’s slept through the night and/or I forgot to do it just before bed… So, what I’m doing to stop is to just pump when I’m feeling really full (or in pain, but hopefully I’ll catch it before then) and then trying to just pump enough to relieve the pressure. I’m not sure how you’re actually supposed to do it, but this seems reasonable to me.
