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two months
Jan. 28th, 2017 10:24 amThe prince was two months old this past Monday. He likes (or does not mind) me, his father, snuggling, milk, the ceiling fan, standing up on our legs and looking around (he can bear weight on his hips and knees but obviously can't balance at all), bath time, and laughing and smiling and cooing at us and his grandmothers. He dislikes wet diapers, dirty diapers (in fact he seems to prefer to have a dry diaper to poop in, which is occasionally pretty tiresome), being cold, being tired, being hungry, tummy time, and vaccine injections. (Hoo boy does he not like vaccine injections. I mean of course he doesn't. But he was mad about those shots for about 30 hours. Yowza.)
I spent some time making an effort to reduce my milk supply, believe it or not, because every day I was pumping roughly twice as much as he was drinking and that meant he was never, ever going to catch up and pretty soon we'd have nothing in the house but breast milk, and the bottles would start dancing around to a theme by Paul Dukas. So now we are back to a pattern where his dad gets him up in the morning and feeds him a bottle, and a little later I get up and pump; then throughout the day I nurse him when he's hungry; the idea is that I nurse him to sleep, but the past several nights he's been too stressy to nurse at the last feeding before he goes to bed, so we've resorted to giving him a bottle then; and then I nurse him when he wakes up in the middle of the night. (We have approximately three gallons in the freezers, which I make about one week's worth - maybe a little less because it won't last quite as long once it's thawed as it would have done if we'd never frozen it - that will go with him a pint or so at a time to his grandmother's once I go back to work, at which point I'll resume pumping more often and I assume the supply will keep up or even increase a bit.) He has much better control of his head now than he did when we first brought him home, and I've worked out that it goes a lot more easily if I pump out my monster letdown before feeding him, so we're both doing better with his latch than we were at first; now I'm just waiting for the time it doesn't feel for the first thirty seconds like I'm being stabbed with a thousand needles - and doesn't randomly feel throughout the day like I'm in a freezer being abraded with sandpaper. They don't tell you quite how much nursing hurts, y'all! I mean I guess people talk about how it's not comfortable, and I guess I've always known there are people who can't stay with it (in addition to those who have simply made the totally valid choice not to begin or not to continue) and give up - and I've never in my life heard anyone say it never hurt at all or was comfortable from the get-go. So hm.
I spent some time making an effort to reduce my milk supply, believe it or not, because every day I was pumping roughly twice as much as he was drinking and that meant he was never, ever going to catch up and pretty soon we'd have nothing in the house but breast milk, and the bottles would start dancing around to a theme by Paul Dukas. So now we are back to a pattern where his dad gets him up in the morning and feeds him a bottle, and a little later I get up and pump; then throughout the day I nurse him when he's hungry; the idea is that I nurse him to sleep, but the past several nights he's been too stressy to nurse at the last feeding before he goes to bed, so we've resorted to giving him a bottle then; and then I nurse him when he wakes up in the middle of the night. (We have approximately three gallons in the freezers, which I make about one week's worth - maybe a little less because it won't last quite as long once it's thawed as it would have done if we'd never frozen it - that will go with him a pint or so at a time to his grandmother's once I go back to work, at which point I'll resume pumping more often and I assume the supply will keep up or even increase a bit.) He has much better control of his head now than he did when we first brought him home, and I've worked out that it goes a lot more easily if I pump out my monster letdown before feeding him, so we're both doing better with his latch than we were at first; now I'm just waiting for the time it doesn't feel for the first thirty seconds like I'm being stabbed with a thousand needles - and doesn't randomly feel throughout the day like I'm in a freezer being abraded with sandpaper. They don't tell you quite how much nursing hurts, y'all! I mean I guess people talk about how it's not comfortable, and I guess I've always known there are people who can't stay with it (in addition to those who have simply made the totally valid choice not to begin or not to continue) and give up - and I've never in my life heard anyone say it never hurt at all or was comfortable from the get-go. So hm.
