Important tips

After reading through a recent "In Style" magazine, I learned that the same lanolin lotion for "nursing mothers" works great for your lips as well. I have had chap free lips since reading this. I thought I would pass it on. Makes sense...if you don't mind shopping for your chapstick in the breast pump aisle.
I also learned that the object used to cover yourself up while breastfeeding in public is more appropriately called the "hooter hider". Definitely better than the "cape thingy" that I have been calling it.
I have seen some great friends recently. Some even from out of town. The outta towner friend has a five-month-old and has been back to work for a few months now. She claims it's not as hard has she thought it would be to return back to work as adults are much easier...I guess that makes sense, but it's still something I am not looking forward to at this point. Not just because I will miss Olivia as she is like an appendage at this point, but because I don't know how I am going to even function during the day on the sleep schedule I have. It's one thing to stay around the house where the only person who you converse with can't tell that you're a bumbling idiot....yet.
Now that Olivia is almost at her two month mark, I am starting to worry if I am "stimulating" her enough with talking and with her movements. She can hold her head up fine when she is on her belly, but I don't really do the toy thing with her just yet. All she's getting so far is a lot of sleep and then yours truly. I hope I am not screwing her up... Part of me thinks it's enough, another part thinks she should be learning Latin...;-)
The good news is John and I have scheduled a vacation shortly. She gets ten days of nothing but mommy and daddy. I am looking forward to the time and think it is important for all of us before I have to go back to work. May will fly by, I just know it. I am going to make every second count.
Olivia is starting to coo and smile a lot now. Mostly smiles come when I am changing her diaper...I wonder why that is...