Current mood:

drained

Rough Times
Well if it's not one thing it's another.  Nicolas got his tongue clipped on Monday and has since had a much better time latching on.  Unfortunately I had to go through the whole engorgement thing again because I'd apparently been pumping more often than he's now eating.  That seems to be subsiding, but because of it, I ended up with Mastitis.  Thankfully, I got a prescription pretty much as soon as I figured it out so that too is healing, but I'm still sore.  My fever is gone though.  Nic is latching on almost right almost every time on the right side.  He was doing ok with the left side for a few feedings, but has slipped back into an incorrect latch.  My friend came over a couple of days ago to help me (that's when he started doing it right)...and she was over again today to help me get him on right again.  It's been a little frustrating and quite painful as well.  At least my right side isn't in so much pain as it was before and I'm getting through the initial soreness.  I said to my mom today that if we can just get this nursing thing down he'd be a perfect baby.  Last night he was 7 hours without eating.  It would have been nice if he'd slept that whole time, but he woke around 2:30 because his diaper had come off and he was soaking wet.  I tried nursing, but he didn't want to...just wanted to sleep.  It was around the time he should have wanted to nurse too.  Around 3:30 he woke again...once again...didn't want to eat.  Finally around 5:40 he woke up and ate.  He had a GREAT feeding (no pain, great latches, about 45 min. of active sucking) last night before bed, so that's what I attribute to his long sleep.  Could he be preparing to sleep through the night already??  I shouldn't get my hopes up...he'll figure out nursing and quit sleeping I'm sure.  So that's little Nic.

Vallarie has been quite the handful too.  2 days ago she dumped some of her cereal...luckily I caught her before she dumped it all and threw it on the floor.  Then, I had vacuumed  and was putting her toys back in place.  She had crawled out of her pack n play and was sitting on the changing table.  Whoopee.  Then, since I couldn't keep her in there, she came in the living room.  I hadn't put the chairs back in the dining room from the kitchen yet.  I heard water running and looked in the kitchen.  She was sitting in the sink with the water running.  Fun, eh?  At least she took a nap that day.  But that night, she crawled out of her crib.  It took us forever to finally go back to bed.  Last night, she did it again...Craig moved her mattress to the floor and she went to sleep.  Today, I tried to put her down...just a few minutes ago it finally went silent.  I put her down an hour ago and it's usually only 15-20 min. before she's asleep. ..Guess she had to play a little.  Hopefully it won't be like yesterday when I came into a room where the drawers had been emptied and half the books were scattered on the floor.  She's acting like Nicolas too...sitting in his chair (which does convert to a rocker for her size), but she puts the blanket over her like I do for him.  She also wants to be held like him and rocked.  My poor little baby.  Not quite sure what to do with her.  We're just trying to spend as much time as possible with her so she knows she hasn't been replaced.  Any ideas are gladly welcomed

I should nap, even though I did get significant sleep last night due to nic's great sleep!