sntm
07-24-2003, 10:14 AM
Have lots to catch up on at work, but will try to catch up here too!
First, THANK YOU a thousand times to everyone who helped to support me and Jack when we were having so many problems with breastfeeding. I am indebted to everyone who gave suggestions, sent supportive emails, and gave me their phone numbers as a source of support. You will never know how much that meant to me and how that kept me going... and now, we are breastfeeding successfully, with minimal pain (I'm not even gritting my teeth anymore!), and as the cracks are almost healed, I expect that pain will go away soon. Jack is latching on much better now, though he still wants to do all by himself (he thinks his head control is a little better than it is so it is like an arcade game trying to center my nipple with his bobbing head) and still sometimes won't open his mouth wide enough. He falls asleep a lot during nursing but eats more before falling asleep and I'm a little better at waking him up. He is also gaining weight like a 4-H project -- a pound in 11 days!
He is smiling now and "talking" to us with little coos. He seems genuinely pleased when we coo back to him. He seems to be the new favorite at daycare, as he is the youngest and by far the smallest there, and they are wonderful at making me feel better. I cried buckets when I left him for a 1 hour trial on Tuesday and cried the whole way to work yesterday when I left him with DH to be dropped off later. Today I actually managed to leave him after breastfeeding there and did not cry (though felt awfully sad walking out to the parking lot.) And the last few days he is starting to get a routine (very good for me -- only one night feeding and then up at 5:00)
Will try to attach a picture later.
shannon
not-even-pregnant-yet-overachiever
trying-to-conceive :)
PREGNANT! EDD 6/9/03
mama to Jack 6/6/03
First, THANK YOU a thousand times to everyone who helped to support me and Jack when we were having so many problems with breastfeeding. I am indebted to everyone who gave suggestions, sent supportive emails, and gave me their phone numbers as a source of support. You will never know how much that meant to me and how that kept me going... and now, we are breastfeeding successfully, with minimal pain (I'm not even gritting my teeth anymore!), and as the cracks are almost healed, I expect that pain will go away soon. Jack is latching on much better now, though he still wants to do all by himself (he thinks his head control is a little better than it is so it is like an arcade game trying to center my nipple with his bobbing head) and still sometimes won't open his mouth wide enough. He falls asleep a lot during nursing but eats more before falling asleep and I'm a little better at waking him up. He is also gaining weight like a 4-H project -- a pound in 11 days!
He is smiling now and "talking" to us with little coos. He seems genuinely pleased when we coo back to him. He seems to be the new favorite at daycare, as he is the youngest and by far the smallest there, and they are wonderful at making me feel better. I cried buckets when I left him for a 1 hour trial on Tuesday and cried the whole way to work yesterday when I left him with DH to be dropped off later. Today I actually managed to leave him after breastfeeding there and did not cry (though felt awfully sad walking out to the parking lot.) And the last few days he is starting to get a routine (very good for me -- only one night feeding and then up at 5:00)
Will try to attach a picture later.
shannon
not-even-pregnant-yet-overachiever
trying-to-conceive :)
PREGNANT! EDD 6/9/03
mama to Jack 6/6/03