Still the Same
Jun 29th, 2007 by admin
Tomorrow marks the three week mark–Sun will be three weeks old and still two weeks from her due date. Today was the day scheduled for her delivery. So happy shouldabeen birthday, Sun! Her real birthday seems like yesterday and a lifetime ago combined. I think a lot of that has to do with my lack of sleep. She now weighs 5 lbs, 4.3 oz!! She is starting to stay awake longer and be more alert when she is awake. It’s nice to have some interaction with her.
But she’s still not nursing. She and I went to a lactation nurse again this week to get some “hands on” help. And again we were told that there is no doubt Sun WILL nurse, but that she’s just still too small. So they are telling me to be patient and give it another couple of weeks–get her to her due date and then see how she is.
So the breast wars wage on. I pump, and when I am not pumping, I am leaking or chafing or engorging. I’d like to say that my life is orbiting around a three-week old, but instead, it is orbiting around a breast pump. A hospital grade, electric, super-quiet, double breast pump. A pump that I hate. A pump that still causes my wrists to hurt holding the horns in place.
I hate to wish Sun’s early days over. However, I will be very glad when we switch to the next phase of Sun’s eating habits and I can reduce my time with the pump.
CS tells me he reads my blog at his 3am feedings of Sun, and that it irritates him that I haven’t posted in days. I explain that if I post now, it will just be about my breasts. Of course, he was all, “WOHOO!” If he can’t play with them, I guess he likes to read about them.
Thus, this post is dedicated to my devoted Captain Sarcastic. CS, please try to be quiet when you come back to bed after those 3am feedings.
Stumble it!
Bring on the boobie talk, we’ve all had to watch our nipples rhythmically sucked into the bottom of a bottle at 3am, we’ve got your back.
I 2nd that Moosh! Bring it on! I too have had to deal w/engorged boobs, boobs that leak at the most inoportune (how the hell do you spell that word anyways!) moments, and chafed boobs! I have also had to deal with a nipple that cracked and still breastfed on it! Oh how fun that was to deal w/every two hours (when my son was only a few wks old). Anyone else have to deal w/that? What made it worse was the cable was out for almost 2wks during that time!!! Try to focus on something else at odd hours of the morning when it feels as if your nipple is being ripped off a little at a time when there’s no TV and the hubby is fast asleep:)
I hear you on the pumping. I felt like my whole life was pumping and feeding, pumping and feeding. We had the same trouble with Myles when he was born… no suck/swallow reflex at first, fed through a syringe, trouble latching. Have you tried a nipple guard? It will elongate your nipple, more like a bottle to allow her to latch until she gets stronger and gets the hang of it. It’s the only thing that worked for us.