Welcome, Kris!
Been a while since I've had a chance to post! Things have been busy around here.
I started back to work this week - I'm working part time, Monday to Wednesday. DH is between jobs right now, so he's staying home with Liam. It's going pretty well - I miss DS, but it's also nice to have some time to myself. And he takes a bottle no problem at all. In fact, the one problem with me going back to work is that I'm not pumping as much as Liam is eating, so we used up my small stash in the first three days. I started taking some Fenugreek to up my supply, and that's already started working, thankfully - I was able to pump 2 oz from my left side this morning while DS nursed on the right.
Liam's started rolling from his back to his front this week. He had previously rolled from tummy to back, but he's completely forgotten how to do that, so he gets a little frustrated when he finds himself on his tummy and can't get back.
The last 3 weeks have been really hard from a sleeping perspective. His initial block at night is no more than 3 hours, often less, and then he's wanting to nurse at least every hour after that. The last 2-3 hours we're in bed he's pretty much nursing constantly, and I'm getting no sleep. I hope that now that I'm trying to up my supply he'll get a full tummy and sleep longer? Right now he doesn't really wake up and just nurses in his sleep, but he's not very efficient that way. We always nurse side-lying - I'm wondering if I should sit up to nurse - maybe he'd wake up a little more and get a full meal that way? Anybody have any suggestions?
Been a while since I've had a chance to post! Things have been busy around here.
I started back to work this week - I'm working part time, Monday to Wednesday. DH is between jobs right now, so he's staying home with Liam. It's going pretty well - I miss DS, but it's also nice to have some time to myself. And he takes a bottle no problem at all. In fact, the one problem with me going back to work is that I'm not pumping as much as Liam is eating, so we used up my small stash in the first three days. I started taking some Fenugreek to up my supply, and that's already started working, thankfully - I was able to pump 2 oz from my left side this morning while DS nursed on the right.
Liam's started rolling from his back to his front this week. He had previously rolled from tummy to back, but he's completely forgotten how to do that, so he gets a little frustrated when he finds himself on his tummy and can't get back.
The last 3 weeks have been really hard from a sleeping perspective. His initial block at night is no more than 3 hours, often less, and then he's wanting to nurse at least every hour after that. The last 2-3 hours we're in bed he's pretty much nursing constantly, and I'm getting no sleep. I hope that now that I'm trying to up my supply he'll get a full tummy and sleep longer? Right now he doesn't really wake up and just nurses in his sleep, but he's not very efficient that way. We always nurse side-lying - I'm wondering if I should sit up to nurse - maybe he'd wake up a little more and get a full meal that way? Anybody have any suggestions?
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He doesn't quite know what to do when he flips over though, since he hates being on his tummy. Once he succeded in turning over, he tries to do it all the time. Well, on the rare occasions that he is on the floor anyways! 
Anyone else been there?
: At least we had good weather for our trip! Talia was amazing...so happy in the car for 4 hours, slept like a dream in my in-laws' beach house, loved having lots of people around. I think she enjoyed our trip most of all!! What a difference from ds when he was a baby. We couldn't take him anywhere ( and still hardly can!) And she is SUCH an eater, it's scary. I was initially second-guessing the early food with her, but man, she eats and eats! We are going to try something new this week, maybe carrots. So far: oatmeal, bananas, sweet potatoes, peas, pears, and applesauce (the only one she didn't like). All are still heavily mixed w/ EBM to make them very liquidy. Her bowel movements haven't changed in terms of frequency, so that's a good thing. The food seems to be causing no negative effects whatsoever but is making her very happy- she even grabs the spoon and shoves it into her mouth most of the time!
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