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Mothering TWO children, both of whom need lots of attention for differing reasons, is tiring!
Ro absolutely adores her little brother, though she's demanding a lot of attention herself in not particularly acceptable ways. We're working on that and have made a lot of headway.
Gio Ash is... well, when I bothered to check the normal milestones I found that he's a month ahead in some areas... and 4-6mos ahead in others. I think I have another gifted child on my hands. And he's a social little bug, too, always flirting and smiling and LOVES talking to people. He'll hold full conversations complete with appropriate breaks and exchanges; we have no idea what he's saying, but he's awfully happy to be saying it!
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I'm a little worried about my milk supply. My breasts never increased in size during this pregnancy, though my band size did (expected, rib cage expands for more lung volume.) I'm getting milk... but it seems like it's borderline a lot of the time.
I suspect it may be a combination of permastress (my body's usually producing cortisol, with assorted ill effects including this) and less-sensitive breast tissue. I may also have less milk-producing tissue than "usual", which isn't abnormal but I could sure use more if the production's gonna be limited, y'know?
I'm trying goat's rue to work on the milk-producing tissue; if it can help women who've had reduction surgery and even women who adopt and want to nurse, it can help me. Also found Motherlove's More Milk tincture; I'm trying that as well to increase production. We'll see how it goes; just started them today. People claim results from the More Milk are pretty good, and goat's rue are excellent, so we'll see.