Mandi, I'm sorry you're not getting the help you need. That has got to be rough. Do you have any neighbors, friends or family that you could ask to come and help for a few days until you get a little more recovered? Maybe your mw would even know of someone? I don't know where you are, but if we were close I'd totally loan you one of my older girls to come and help out. At the very least, maybe you could let the cleaning and sweeping slide for now and only do the bare minimum for the next few days. I'll be thinking of you!Carrie - How's your swelling today? Hope you have a good day shopping.
I'm afraid ds and I have yeast.
Ugh! I posted earlier about an itchy rash on my belly and ds having a diaper rash. After treating both of us with some Lotrimin cream just twice both rashes are already much better which makes me think it's indeed yeast. Then last night I noticed my left nipple was really sore throughout the feed, and it's bright pink and very tender even between feeds. I also had a couple of those sharp shooting pains inside that breast later in the night and a couple of times today. I distinctly remember what thrush felt like, and I'm pretty sure that's what we're dealing with. I'm going to paint my nipple with Gentian Violet, and I'm going to get some GSE and will go full blast with attacking the yeast. GSE is what finally cured us of thrush when I had it a few years ago with my 6th baby, and that was after trying everything under the sun including prescriptions. At least I don't see any in ds's mouth, and even though I feel the symptoms of it they are much milder than when I had it before. I hope I'm catching it at the beginning, and maybe it'll be easier to clear this time. I'm bummed about it, though. I so didn't want to deal with this.
Her cord is looking great and she seems to be a very happy baby! She already wants to nurse when she gets upset like when Daddy changes her diaper or after her bath last night. 
It's so sweet to know that she's already so fond of that comfort. 
: The only other time I've done that was with my 1st baby. I guess all the exercise during this pregnancy is paying off. I kept my total weight gain at 25lbs as opposed to my usual 40-50lbs gain. I still have work to do, though, because I started this pregnancy about 20lbs over what I want to be. I feel confident though that I can get it off and am looking forward to getting into some serious exercising in a few weeks.
Well, here we are, just survived our first 2 weeks of parenting 2 children. Makes me wonder why I made such a big deal about just one kid, oh yea...he was a handful even though there was just one of him. Now, the stress has come from going from one child to two. Especially because my first is only 22mths old and is a giant handful!!! The baby is fairly easy, it's juggling both of them that is the challenge!!
: We took Ally Rae to her first dr visit yesterday and his first question was how BF'ing was going. So, we told him about it since we know how natrually-minded he is. His thought was that I'm a "super producer" (my Mom was too....used to spray me and choke me with let down) and my forceful let down is scaring her so she pulls away and that's why the awful face. So, we've been using the hand pump for a couple min to get past the initial let down and then latching. She's doing beautifully now! 
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