just running through some milestones
She started sitting up on her own around 6 months.
She started solid foods around 7 months. Daycare gave most of it, since I put her straight down to bed when we got home and didn’t have time to do any food. She wasn’t sleeping at daycare so she was always overtired.
At 7 months, she got hand foot mouth disease from daycare. What a painful experience - she was actually not too bad, but I had lesions all down my throat. I ate a lot of bubble tea.
Around this time, she was waking zero to two times a night, often with one wake early in the evening like 45 minutes after I first put her down for bed, and then one wake potentially around 2am-4am. Then she’d wake around 6:30am.
I dropped down to 6 pumps per day around 7 months. I believe I made 20 oz per day at my peak when I was doing 7 pumps per day. It was exhausting. I did lose a few oz when I dropped to 6 pumps. As an infant, we gave her some bottles of straight formula. As she got older, she started rejecting formula more and I had to mix it with breastmilk to get her to drink it. Luckily she took frozen breastmilk and I got a few donations of breast milk from some fantastic overproducing moms (60-80 oz per day!). She still wasn’t eating very much though. I’d guess 15-22 oz a day.
Around this time was the first time we went to church with her. First time I went to church since she was born.
Her bottom two teeth came in around 8 months.
She didn’t like many things.
She started crawling a little before 9 months.
She could finally put herself to sleep without crying on most nights. This was huge! It was torture to hear her screaming every single night for 10-45 minutes in order to fall asleep. We sleep trained at 8 weeks, and instead of the hard 2-3 days or weeks, she fought sleep for 7 MONTHS because we couldn’t control her wake times or daycare naps. She still often wakes up crying, which was also supposed to stop after sleep training, but I’ll take what we can get.
She started drinking from a cup around 9 months.
She started to pull up and stand a little after 9 months.
At this point, she was waking up zero to one times a night, the one time being between 10pm-4:30am. Then she would wake pretty consistently for the day around 5:30am and 6:30am.
She could always babble, but she babbles more now. It often sounds like she is displeased, and she’s pretty whiny. Makes me anxiety spike.
I dropped to 5 pumps per day around this time, and made 13-15 oz per day.
She is barely starting to cruise around by holding onto things and transferring her hands around. Oh boy!
So we are at 9.5 months right now. I get up every day at 5am to pump. I’m tired. I’ve thought about asking for an anxiety medication. It seems like I get triggered and experience visceral flashbacks of the trauma I experienced earlier on. The triggers happen less and less, now, but I still wouldn't say that I'm OK.
She started solid foods around 7 months. Daycare gave most of it, since I put her straight down to bed when we got home and didn’t have time to do any food. She wasn’t sleeping at daycare so she was always overtired.
At 7 months, she got hand foot mouth disease from daycare. What a painful experience - she was actually not too bad, but I had lesions all down my throat. I ate a lot of bubble tea.
Around this time, she was waking zero to two times a night, often with one wake early in the evening like 45 minutes after I first put her down for bed, and then one wake potentially around 2am-4am. Then she’d wake around 6:30am.
I dropped down to 6 pumps per day around 7 months. I believe I made 20 oz per day at my peak when I was doing 7 pumps per day. It was exhausting. I did lose a few oz when I dropped to 6 pumps. As an infant, we gave her some bottles of straight formula. As she got older, she started rejecting formula more and I had to mix it with breastmilk to get her to drink it. Luckily she took frozen breastmilk and I got a few donations of breast milk from some fantastic overproducing moms (60-80 oz per day!). She still wasn’t eating very much though. I’d guess 15-22 oz a day.
Around this time was the first time we went to church with her. First time I went to church since she was born.
Her bottom two teeth came in around 8 months.
She didn’t like many things.
She started crawling a little before 9 months.
She could finally put herself to sleep without crying on most nights. This was huge! It was torture to hear her screaming every single night for 10-45 minutes in order to fall asleep. We sleep trained at 8 weeks, and instead of the hard 2-3 days or weeks, she fought sleep for 7 MONTHS because we couldn’t control her wake times or daycare naps. She still often wakes up crying, which was also supposed to stop after sleep training, but I’ll take what we can get.
She started drinking from a cup around 9 months.
She started to pull up and stand a little after 9 months.
At this point, she was waking up zero to one times a night, the one time being between 10pm-4:30am. Then she would wake pretty consistently for the day around 5:30am and 6:30am.
She could always babble, but she babbles more now. It often sounds like she is displeased, and she’s pretty whiny. Makes me anxiety spike.
I dropped to 5 pumps per day around this time, and made 13-15 oz per day.
She is barely starting to cruise around by holding onto things and transferring her hands around. Oh boy!
So we are at 9.5 months right now. I get up every day at 5am to pump. I’m tired. I’ve thought about asking for an anxiety medication. It seems like I get triggered and experience visceral flashbacks of the trauma I experienced earlier on. The triggers happen less and less, now, but I still wouldn't say that I'm OK.