Babies + work just explodes your brain, I find. When I was on leave, everything in me felt very OMG HORMONES DON'T LEAVE YOUR BAAAAABYYYYY and I would just get so upset about going back to work and it was hard, hard at first. And it's still hard some days, but it's better
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He will eat to his hunger! That is the key! Dude - I really think that is the key - I mean one thing we know about babies from all those laaaaattteeee nights is that the Nom instinct is totally in place. TJ has lots of other counter-evolutionary instincts, like "When I am tired I will throw myself violently backwards in order to catch the unwary baby-holder by surprise" - but she is really clear about being hungry when she is hungry and not stopping eating until she is full. NB will eat what he needs to eat! And he will play with his food at all other times.
Also - the other day I left the bottles/breast sheilds from my pump at home, and spent the day in a panic of "should I try to go home at lunch? should I just let my boobs keep filling? what will she eat tomorrow?" and then Mr. Angel came to my job with the pump parts, and I thought "I love you!" and then I unpacked the bag, and realized he had brought the stuff from the shitty emergency weekend pump instead of the fancy pants office one, and I burst into tears. AT WORK.
Seeing your add-me-the-the-filter post reminded me that I wanted to come back and say that I would absolutely have cried if that breastpump-equipment-mixup had happened to me.
Also, btw, we did find a non-puking formula that NB seems to enjoy, so I am tapering away on pumping and alternating between feeling all "OH NO FORMULA GOD TEN MONTHS IS TOO EARLY!" and "Not pumping is the greatest thing ever and a little formula is fine."
Weirdly, I'm starting to be at the place where people I have to JUSTIFY still breastfeeding to people, who are sort of a little why-would-you-put-yourself-through-that about it? Because I'm lazy and it's convenient is why, people!
You know what? I think people are really weird about breast feeding. I know this isn't a newsflash, but I am continually amazed by how many people want to get all up in my business about how long I am planning to feed her, continue to pump, etc
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Yeah, I don't know how people who don't breastfeed manage it either, especially at night, when I'm barely conscious and hooking him up takes about ten seconds before I collapse back into a stupor. I have a friend who weened around 4 months--bad pumping situation at work--and (or perhaps I should say "but") her kid is much more laid back than NB--when we took care of him, he happily put himself to sleep with a bottle and his blanket and we were all
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Also - the other day I left the bottles/breast sheilds from my pump at home, and spent the day in a panic of "should I try to go home at lunch? should I just let my boobs keep filling? what will she eat tomorrow?" and then Mr. Angel came to my job with the pump parts, and I thought "I love you!" and then I unpacked the bag, and realized he had brought the stuff from the shitty emergency weekend pump instead of the fancy pants office one, and I burst into tears. AT WORK.
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Also, btw, we did find a non-puking formula that NB seems to enjoy, so I am tapering away on pumping and alternating between feeling all "OH NO FORMULA GOD TEN MONTHS IS TOO EARLY!" and "Not pumping is the greatest thing ever and a little formula is fine."
Weirdly, I'm starting to be at the place where people I have to JUSTIFY still breastfeeding to people, who are sort of a little why-would-you-put-yourself-through-that about it? Because I'm lazy and it's convenient is why, people!
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