Hi Ladies,
I'm not even going to pretend that I was able to catch up. I totally missed the August Thread, I think. Maybe I popped in to see that CBW had her baby, but that's about it.
Anna, DH and I are doing well. she is SO big now, growing well with my turbo mommy milk I guess. she's gained 4 lbs in 8 weeks and 5 inches in height (though I dont know how accurate the measurement of a scrunchy newborn really is...)
Anna is napping by herself upstairs right now, for the longest stretch EVER so far. I may have just jinxed myself. she usually can only fall asleep in my arms, or laying in bed with us at night.
we're co-sleeping, CDing during the day (and I do it at night, but DH doesnt for some reason that I dont fully understand since he doesnt do the laundry, and it doesnt get much easier than BGs!) we are using sposies when we go out bc i havent yet ordered a wet bag, and feel guilty doing so since i have all this PUL (but its a PITA to sew and I dont really have time to sew these days!)
she is BFing like a champ still, and it's working well. due to her underdeveloped digestive system coupled with insane oversupply on my end, we had a bout with some lactose intolerance for Anna, but now she's doing much better. crushing up lactaid every time before nursing was a HUGE pain. we're all much happier now that my supply is normalized and her belly is feeling better. I'm still mostly avoiding cow dairy, save maybe one tiny piece of good cheddar every 4 days or so. i miss cheese and cereal with milk.
all worth it, since she is feeling sooooo much better without it. baby probiotics are also really helping her immensely. thanks to some mamas at MDC for recommendations on brands.
some photos are
here this might work...? if not, i will upload a few key ones to photobucket.: she is super cute if I do say so myself. we might be partial.
if anyone is on FB, i could share, they are posted there...
our camera is still being a
so they are not all that great.
not looking forward to going back to work in 1.5 weeks.
. seriously, I have NO idea how we will get to that horrible schedule. right now, A and I sleep till 10 since she is a little night owl. putting her down at 730 means nothing, she'll still be wide awake at midnight. ha! i have about 10 days to get things under control, or I'll not make it 1 week getting up at 530AM for work as I'll have to do..... uuuugh.
found out at my PP appt that my MW thought the Csection was "hasty" and "maybe not necessary." WOW. thanks for being my advocate there, as you said you would be.... I lost my dream birth for nothing. turns out I didnt have the chorio amnionitis after all, it was some other(still unidentified) infection. MW suspects I would have responded to tylenol to reduce fever, and iV atbx for the infection. UGH. said labor probably would have stopped, and i could have had a FSBC birth in a week or so. wow. it's like i got run over by a train, since I'd just come to terms with the fact that I'll never have the FSBC birth that I worked for and wanted so deeply. at this point, i will start what the best protocol is for preparing for a VBAC, and thinking about home birth... i feel robbed and really sad about it. reading all the beautiful birth stories in my DDC was just hurting, like a raw wound. and all anyone IRL had to say was "at least the baby is healthy." well, i think that's obvious, but i guess i dont count for anything?! OK, my pity party over. I am so happy, blessed, excited and over the moon delighted to have our little girl here. she makes everything better.
I am so excited to see some new and returning mamas posting in this Sept thread!!!! Congratulations mamas!! oh-
and TWINS Nanette?!?!?!? YAY!
I think i'll be better able to keep up once I'm back at the office. (isnt that terrible?!)
Hope everyone with babes in arms, and those still waiting are doing fantastically! I think of you all often!!!!
OK, A waking up now. hope those pics work!
, it can be really sucky. I wasn't even a fingertip dilated until I went into labor, and went from nothing to babe in arms in less than 6 hours....so you don't know, it could happen today or tomorrow or next week.
