Hey there, finally getting to check in here and we get the notice that the DDC is closing! I swear, every day I try and post to the weekly thread and I just cannot get to it! I feel so bad being out of touch with everyone! I've been wanting to find out how your babies are doing and share what is going on with us!
It has been really overwhelming with 3 kids, but I'm doing it. Day by day. Sometimes I feel like I just can't go on, I can't do this, but then I know I AM doing it, and we're all ok! The spring weather and being able to get outside and be out later in the evenings is helping so much.
The baby wakes up probably 2x per night, and usually just nurses a tiny bit and goes back to sleep. But I often can't get back to sleep after the first waking, so when she wakes at 1am, it's brutal. Sometimes she is up around 5am for the day, and smiles and talks for an hour, and goes back to sleep just when it's time for me to get up, and I'm totally shot for the day.
On weekends my dh will take her for a night so I can take a sleeping pill for the 2nd half of the night and get a few more hours, but I only have a little bit of milk stored up so I get paranoid about running out.
I've gotten so many calls for postpartum work (I'm a pp doula) and have said yes to a couple moms, but now I'm panicking over it- I barely have any milk stored, and the elaborate arrangements I'm having to make for childcare for 3 kids at a moment's notice is giving me so much anxiety I'm getting even less sleep worrying over it. And paying for 3x babysitting, I will probably end up PAYING to work, so it is really not worth it. I think I will back off working after I finish with these ladies and be satisfied with the PP help I do via LLL!
In other baby milestone news, she isn't doing a whole lot physically, but that's normal for my slow-moving kids! She is smiling a lot, and when she's well rested and fed she "talks" and has all kinds of adorable conversations! I don't know how much she weighs but she moved into 3-6 month clothes this week. She isn't rolling over, but she has tilted to the side a few times! And her hair is long and growing
Everywhere we go, people exclaim over her head of hair! Overall she is really peaceful, but not placid- she definitely lets us know when she's hungry or tired and will SCREAM when she's not happy! But in between she is a joy to be with.
It has been really overwhelming with 3 kids, but I'm doing it. Day by day. Sometimes I feel like I just can't go on, I can't do this, but then I know I AM doing it, and we're all ok! The spring weather and being able to get outside and be out later in the evenings is helping so much.
The baby wakes up probably 2x per night, and usually just nurses a tiny bit and goes back to sleep. But I often can't get back to sleep after the first waking, so when she wakes at 1am, it's brutal. Sometimes she is up around 5am for the day, and smiles and talks for an hour, and goes back to sleep just when it's time for me to get up, and I'm totally shot for the day.
On weekends my dh will take her for a night so I can take a sleeping pill for the 2nd half of the night and get a few more hours, but I only have a little bit of milk stored up so I get paranoid about running out.
I've gotten so many calls for postpartum work (I'm a pp doula) and have said yes to a couple moms, but now I'm panicking over it- I barely have any milk stored, and the elaborate arrangements I'm having to make for childcare for 3 kids at a moment's notice is giving me so much anxiety I'm getting even less sleep worrying over it. And paying for 3x babysitting, I will probably end up PAYING to work, so it is really not worth it. I think I will back off working after I finish with these ladies and be satisfied with the PP help I do via LLL!
In other baby milestone news, she isn't doing a whole lot physically, but that's normal for my slow-moving kids! She is smiling a lot, and when she's well rested and fed she "talks" and has all kinds of adorable conversations! I don't know how much she weighs but she moved into 3-6 month clothes this week. She isn't rolling over, but she has tilted to the side a few times! And her hair is long and growing
Everywhere we go, people exclaim over her head of hair! Overall she is really peaceful, but not placid- she definitely lets us know when she's hungry or tired and will SCREAM when she's not happy! But in between she is a joy to be with.
) We tend to have nothing but unstructured time in the summer...okay, there is definatly some structure, just not as much as the rest of the year.
I often feel bad b/c I'm not doing all kinds of creative homeschooling projects or trips or cool stuff I see others doing. Basically, the preschool commute, taking care of the baby, doing our paper-and-pencil homeschooling work, reading some books, taking an occasional trip to the zoo or a museum, not to mention grocery shopping, appointments, LLL calls, cleaning the house, trying to feed us- outside of that, the kids are getting LOTS of unstructured time. I try to see it in a good light, and just as a period of time and not forever, but sometimes it's hard convincing myself. On sunny days, it's been great that we have nothing to do but dig in the dirt and run around the yard. On rainy days, that means too much tv, though 
: on Levi sleeping so well! hope it last a little while!
I know that had to be tough 
It WILL get better, and become more routine. I think the anticipation of it and that first week will be the hardest, then you'll settle into it and she'll get used to the bottle and the caregivers. And if she doesn't take the bottle, hopefully she'll get through using alternate means and be on to solids and breastmilk in a sippy cup in a few short months.
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