I am feeling seriously burned out at the moment.
Brenan is up every 1.5-2 hours at night, every night, nursing like a fiend. We are still battling the yeasty beasties. Gentian violet seems to have helped his mouth, but now his bum is overrun with it. He is a very unhappy baby most of the time, I think due to the yeast. He sleeps for 4 hours straight sometimes during the day, and I would love to nap when he does so, but with the other kids it's impossible.
My special need four year old is in the process of yet ANOTHER med change and has been just impossible to deal with lately (not just since B's birth). He is driving everyone in the house crazy. The other night he and my nine year old son got into a huge brawl while I was busy changing a diaper and consoling a screaming baby...pictures were knocked off the wall in the next room and they both had scrapes, bruises and there was even a bloody nose. I don't know what to do about the two of them, I would love if they didn't have to share a room, but this house is so tiny there is seriously no where else to put anyone.
I thought I had one last check coming from work, and that one check was going to help see us through my maternity leave, but I figured it out all wrong and I don't have a check coming at all. So now I'm trying to not panic about how everything is going to get paid for the next 10 weeks.
We had a blizzard here yesterday, so of course it's freezing cold and tons more snow. My dad tries to shovel when he can, but mostly it's been my 9 year old trying to shovel it all alone after school and he's a little guy and it just kicks his butt so I go out and finish and it kinda freaks me out because every time I do I start gushy bleeding all over again (sorry tmi)
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My incision still hurts, especially on the right it is such severe sharp pain that I have wondered on occasion if they accidently left something in there. I'm sure not, but it is that sharp.
I'm really sick of nursing, which is normal for me at this point, it will get better and I will be glad I persisted in a few months. I'm already kinda tired of cloth diapering, although if the darn yeast issue would clear up I might feel better about the whole thing. Tired of trying to go about life as usual with Brenan in the sling (how DO you lean over to bathe your older kids with a baby on your front or reach all the way into the bottom of the washer to retrieve those baby socks?) Already sick of being broke, sick of being stressed, and sick to death of the freezing cold and snow.
I am tired, sore, lonely as hell and really, really miss my mom.
Brenan is up every 1.5-2 hours at night, every night, nursing like a fiend. We are still battling the yeasty beasties. Gentian violet seems to have helped his mouth, but now his bum is overrun with it. He is a very unhappy baby most of the time, I think due to the yeast. He sleeps for 4 hours straight sometimes during the day, and I would love to nap when he does so, but with the other kids it's impossible.
My special need four year old is in the process of yet ANOTHER med change and has been just impossible to deal with lately (not just since B's birth). He is driving everyone in the house crazy. The other night he and my nine year old son got into a huge brawl while I was busy changing a diaper and consoling a screaming baby...pictures were knocked off the wall in the next room and they both had scrapes, bruises and there was even a bloody nose. I don't know what to do about the two of them, I would love if they didn't have to share a room, but this house is so tiny there is seriously no where else to put anyone.
I thought I had one last check coming from work, and that one check was going to help see us through my maternity leave, but I figured it out all wrong and I don't have a check coming at all. So now I'm trying to not panic about how everything is going to get paid for the next 10 weeks.
We had a blizzard here yesterday, so of course it's freezing cold and tons more snow. My dad tries to shovel when he can, but mostly it's been my 9 year old trying to shovel it all alone after school and he's a little guy and it just kicks his butt so I go out and finish and it kinda freaks me out because every time I do I start gushy bleeding all over again (sorry tmi)
.My incision still hurts, especially on the right it is such severe sharp pain that I have wondered on occasion if they accidently left something in there. I'm sure not, but it is that sharp.
I'm really sick of nursing, which is normal for me at this point, it will get better and I will be glad I persisted in a few months. I'm already kinda tired of cloth diapering, although if the darn yeast issue would clear up I might feel better about the whole thing. Tired of trying to go about life as usual with Brenan in the sling (how DO you lean over to bathe your older kids with a baby on your front or reach all the way into the bottom of the washer to retrieve those baby socks?) Already sick of being broke, sick of being stressed, and sick to death of the freezing cold and snow.
I am tired, sore, lonely as hell and really, really miss my mom.
; maybe a pair of pants and a few shirts and a trim for my hair)
