Well, we had our one week check up and Alex is doing great. Aside from being the color of a ripe banana she is fine. Growing well and eating well and sleeping well. I'm a very very very very very very very very lucky momma. My children have all slept really well from the time they are born. Sometime I wonder if it's the universes way of being nice to me after the horrible pregnancy. I go through 9 months of hell to have a beautiful, healthy, well behaved newborn.
Here's a theory, pray for a difficult pregnancy because then you will have easy children. Have an easy pregnancy and you will have difficult children? I like it. It makes me feel better for all the women who have great and easy pregnancies. I hate all those women by the way. They are the bane of my existence when the worse thing the experience is trouble getting comfortable. Well, guess what, you have a BABY in your uterus and so you are supposed to be uncomfortable. It isn't easy being pregnant and so you should have a little discomfort. Ok, well maybe not for everyone but really you are creating life. Why is it easy for some women and so hard for others?
I'm very thankful and feel extremely blessed that I can even have children. There are plenty of women out there that cannot have children and I thank my lucky stars every day that I'm not one of them.
I've realized that getting my tubes tied will make it impossible for me to get pregnant and that makes me a little sad because man oh man do I love having a newborn. They are my favorite stage of life so far. They are just so cuddly and warm and perfect. So getting my tubes tied in a few months makes me very sad but I can't go through another pregnancy. We don't want anymore children and this will make sure that it doesn't happen. Sad but required and I have a few months to come to terms with that so I'll deal. Don't worry.
I feel cheated though that I get to sit home on my ass, sicker than a dog for months while pregnant and then when the baby comes out I get a measly 6 weeks to recover and enjoy what it took so much to make before having to return to work. While I look forward to getting back to regular life I also wish that I had more time to stay at home and enjoy my baby. I've been out of work on modified bed rest since August 5th, 2010 and then when she is born on Feb. 9th, 2011 and I will be back to work around March 23rd, 2011. It just seems so unfair! I guess I will get over it, like everything else in life but it still sucks!
Well, Alex is sleeping and the girls are at daycare so I should probably go make some lunch and take a nap.
Talk to you soon!
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Breastfeeding....
Ok, here's my soap box for the day... Thanks Candice for getting me started and then thanks to Babycenters February 2011 group...
In regards to breastfeeding hurting for a few weeks in the beginning...
It will hurt for a couple weeks until your nipples become accustom to nursing but it shouldn't be the 'make you cry' type of pain.
It isn't usually easy for most BF moms at first. I think that it is something that needs to be practiced and after a few weeks it will get better.
Think of it this way... you are pregnant for 40 weeks, in the beginning most of us are puking our guts out for weeks, if not months. Then the second tri hits and we level out and start to show and are all a glow, ok maybe your constipated or uncomfortable. Then the third tri hits and we are nothing but complaining about sore backs, hoo ha's, feeling fat, bloated, hungry, crabby. All in all most of us complain for the last 12 weeks like it's never going to end.
Then we go into labor and if we are lucky it only lasts a few hours, there's a very short amount of pushing and the baby is there without any tearing or major medical intervention.
What about this entire process says that breastfeeding should all of a sudden be easy??? Nothing else has come easy so why should this? I feel like every one should be trying their hardest to give their baby the breast milk that is superior to formula. Do we realize that as little as 100 years ago if you didn't figure it out your baby died? You had to find a wet nurse to feed your baby if you couldn't figure it out. Formula is a fairly new thing and we should be trying our hardest to give our babies the very best!!! Obviously you can tell I'm all for the boob but for real, give it your all! You didn't give up on being pregnant when you could only eat saltines and ginger ale for 6 weeks. Why should this be any different?
In regards to breastfeeding hurting for a few weeks in the beginning...
It will hurt for a couple weeks until your nipples become accustom to nursing but it shouldn't be the 'make you cry' type of pain.
It isn't usually easy for most BF moms at first. I think that it is something that needs to be practiced and after a few weeks it will get better.
Think of it this way... you are pregnant for 40 weeks, in the beginning most of us are puking our guts out for weeks, if not months. Then the second tri hits and we level out and start to show and are all a glow, ok maybe your constipated or uncomfortable. Then the third tri hits and we are nothing but complaining about sore backs, hoo ha's, feeling fat, bloated, hungry, crabby. All in all most of us complain for the last 12 weeks like it's never going to end.
Then we go into labor and if we are lucky it only lasts a few hours, there's a very short amount of pushing and the baby is there without any tearing or major medical intervention.
What about this entire process says that breastfeeding should all of a sudden be easy??? Nothing else has come easy so why should this? I feel like every one should be trying their hardest to give their baby the breast milk that is superior to formula. Do we realize that as little as 100 years ago if you didn't figure it out your baby died? You had to find a wet nurse to feed your baby if you couldn't figure it out. Formula is a fairly new thing and we should be trying our hardest to give our babies the very best!!! Obviously you can tell I'm all for the boob but for real, give it your all! You didn't give up on being pregnant when you could only eat saltines and ginger ale for 6 weeks. Why should this be any different?
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