1:16 pm
Super Baby
(click for bigger photo.)
4 weeks old tomorrow! Time is going by unbelievably fast! He almost doesn’t fit in his newborn clothes anymore.
8:52 pm
Is eating your mother anti-Darwinian?
perhaps not, after all the babies of the Australian social spider eat their mothers.
(Ooooo wallet!)
Anyhow, so about my first 11 days of breastfeeding Damian…
I started off using nipple shields, though I only used they for a couple days, I got really nasty bloody blisters on my nipples from them. Surprisingly enough Damian latched on right away without them. Super suck reflex!
Damian definitely does not have any form of nipple aversion but I might be getting it! Don’t get me wrong, I love breastfeeding him, it releases all kinds of happy hormones in my body but my left nipple is a leaky bucket. I am not engorged or anything, if anything it is less full then the right side! I can completely soak through a cloth prefold diaper stuffed in my bra in 20 minutes if I am feeding him on the other side, or if I am sleeping. I also have developed a small cut that has scabbed over on my nipple. Wow that hurts when he latches. I don’t know what I would do without Lanolin (it is a greasy yellow skin ointment made from wool. It moisturizes and it safe for to use while breastfeeding.)
I also have been writing this journal entry since 2 this afternoon, it is now 7. Damian is constantly feeding today and my poor breasts are sooo sore. I’ve read he naturally does this just before a growth spurt (he should be having one about now, then again at 2 or 3 weeks, 6 weeks, 3 months, etc) but wow, today has seems to have been totally about my boobs and his wet diapers. Damian has been sleeping for about an hour now though and Michael is napping too. I probably should be but I need to take some me time (so I blog…)
Michael is being so awesome about it all, he is becoming the cloth diaper changing king. He was wearing the baby in a sling for awhile today which was really cute. If only he could help breastfeed too… Still I love breastfeeding.
Damian and I also took a bath today, which was really fun. Babies float! I totally didn’t know that, he loved being in the tub with me, he was so mellow and great (and didn’t want a boob for 25 whole minutes!)
Yesterday we had our first outing. We went out and got me some more nursing bras (so long B cup, hello D cup. A country could get lost in this cleavage) and then had a lunch stop over in Friendship Park, where Damian decided he wanted to poop and have lunch too. I fed him in the van, I am not comfortable enough with nursing to do it in public yet… Then we went grocery shopping, he was fantastic in the store, unless he stopped the cart for too long (he had this problem with the van stopping as well) then he started getting restless.
My main goal for this week before Michael goes back to work (next Monday) is to get Damian use to being in the moby wrap so I can wear him around while I work.. He doesn’t like the newborn wrap so I am going to try the kangaroo wrap tomorrow.
One handed typing now, just finished another feeding, sleeping (kinda) baby in arms. I’m going to post this now, sorry if it sounds disjointed.
10:32 pm
First Family Photo
Linda took this photo of us when she came to give Damian and I our 2 day check up. Tired but very happy! I have some new photos up here.
We are doing well (still tired of course.) Damian and I are really getting the hang of breastfeeding, we are already off the nipple shields. He is being sooo good about it. It is hard to get up so much at nighttime, it feels like he needs me (or rather, needs boobs) constantly, but he needs me. Michael is really good about helping burp him after and getting him to sleep again.
We had a huge thunderstorm this afternoon with about an inch of hail, some funnel clouds were even spotted. Damian slept through almost all of it (till he went poo and needed a diaper change.) Mellow baby!
Anyhow, he is napping now, so I am going to nap…
