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I really don't know what I'm going to do come Monday when I'm suddenly responsible for taking care of these two kids all by myself. I've been saying that the injunction from the doctor to rest for two weeks (no outings, no housework, no Doob care) seems at the same time total overkill and ridiculously inadequate. Yes, I'm feeling much better now than I did last Wednesday, but two weeks of sitting around the house is making me nuts. Yet I'm terrified of Monday. How the hell am I going to get the Doob ready in the morning when Geneva wants to eat all the time? How am I going to get up at 6:30 so I'm ready to take the Doob to school when Geneva won't settle down till 2 am?
Kaden always wants to hold/touch/kiss/rock/poke/pat/hug the baby. I try to allow this as much as possible but he always takes it too far. So having him near Geneva entails a running dialogue of "Just her head, Doob. Just pat her head. Gently! That's too rough, you have to be very gentle with a baby. That's nice, just like that. Okay, once is enough. Doob, that's enough. Stop kissing her now, she needs to rest. No, don't put your face in her face. She can't breathe when you do that. Doob, get out of her face. No, you can't lie next to her, there isn't room on the bouncer. Don't rock her so hard. Gentle. Okay, we're going to leave her alone now. Doob, it's time to leave her alone. We've shown her that we love her, no we're going to leave her be to rest. Doob, stop touching her."
How am I going to keep him away from her or distract him with some other activity when he's only interested in bothering her?
moonsend, calienteyfria, wyllow42, unycorne you've got two (or more). How the heck do you do it?
In other news, I can't decide if I'm worried about my health or not. I'm getting stabbing pains in my abdomen, but that might just be gas, it's hard to tell. I feel like I have a UTI, but when I mentioned it to Dr. Elvove he said it was likely just trauma from the birth. Yet it developed just this week; it wasn't there right after the birth. I feel very bruised and tender all around my perineum, but the bleeding is very light. My pelvis is all out of whack, it hurts when I sit, when I stand, when I move. I really thought it would get better once the baby came out, but perhaps I need longer for it to heal. I know part of it is being so sedentary. I do walk up and down the stairs and around the house, but most of the day I'm parked on my ass feeding the baby. We took x-rays at the chiropractor this morning, so those might reveal something we need to work on. I don't know. I don't feel well. I don't think I have fever, but I wouldn't know because we don't own a thermometer and the last three times I've tried to have someone buy me one it hasn't worked out (no thermometer for sale, etc.)
Then on top of that I have sinus pressure causing a low-grade headache and tenderness all along my cheekbones. And I have a massive sore throat, which is really a bummer. I woke up this morning unable to talk for the pain, but some tea loosened things up. It's still there, though. I could feel it getting worse last night while fighting with Geneva till midnight. I nursed her constantly from 8 to 11 then tried with rocking and bouncing to get her to settle down. Finally she accepted the boob while we were lying down, and slept till 4 am. She woke up, fussed, took the other boob, and slept till 7. I can't figure her out. Sometimes her fussy hours are in the middle of the night, sometimes in the morning, sometimes late evening...there's no pattern.
Sigh. Anyway, that's where we are. My MOPS small group leader is bringing over dinner tonight, so I don't have to worry about cooking. Yay!
Kaden always wants to hold/touch/kiss/rock/poke/pat/hug the baby. I try to allow this as much as possible but he always takes it too far. So having him near Geneva entails a running dialogue of "Just her head, Doob. Just pat her head. Gently! That's too rough, you have to be very gentle with a baby. That's nice, just like that. Okay, once is enough. Doob, that's enough. Stop kissing her now, she needs to rest. No, don't put your face in her face. She can't breathe when you do that. Doob, get out of her face. No, you can't lie next to her, there isn't room on the bouncer. Don't rock her so hard. Gentle. Okay, we're going to leave her alone now. Doob, it's time to leave her alone. We've shown her that we love her, no we're going to leave her be to rest. Doob, stop touching her."
How am I going to keep him away from her or distract him with some other activity when he's only interested in bothering her?
moonsend, calienteyfria, wyllow42, unycorne you've got two (or more). How the heck do you do it?
In other news, I can't decide if I'm worried about my health or not. I'm getting stabbing pains in my abdomen, but that might just be gas, it's hard to tell. I feel like I have a UTI, but when I mentioned it to Dr. Elvove he said it was likely just trauma from the birth. Yet it developed just this week; it wasn't there right after the birth. I feel very bruised and tender all around my perineum, but the bleeding is very light. My pelvis is all out of whack, it hurts when I sit, when I stand, when I move. I really thought it would get better once the baby came out, but perhaps I need longer for it to heal. I know part of it is being so sedentary. I do walk up and down the stairs and around the house, but most of the day I'm parked on my ass feeding the baby. We took x-rays at the chiropractor this morning, so those might reveal something we need to work on. I don't know. I don't feel well. I don't think I have fever, but I wouldn't know because we don't own a thermometer and the last three times I've tried to have someone buy me one it hasn't worked out (no thermometer for sale, etc.)
Then on top of that I have sinus pressure causing a low-grade headache and tenderness all along my cheekbones. And I have a massive sore throat, which is really a bummer. I woke up this morning unable to talk for the pain, but some tea loosened things up. It's still there, though. I could feel it getting worse last night while fighting with Geneva till midnight. I nursed her constantly from 8 to 11 then tried with rocking and bouncing to get her to settle down. Finally she accepted the boob while we were lying down, and slept till 4 am. She woke up, fussed, took the other boob, and slept till 7. I can't figure her out. Sometimes her fussy hours are in the middle of the night, sometimes in the morning, sometimes late evening...there's no pattern.
Sigh. Anyway, that's where we are. My MOPS small group leader is bringing over dinner tonight, so I don't have to worry about cooking. Yay!