Last Sunday night, O pulled one of those waking up at 2, 5, and 7am. Lately, fortunately, she only takes one boob and promptly falls back asleep, so the obscenely crazy hours she wakes up are more manageable. BUT, last Monday I was telling John, before we went to bed, that I miss that one time she slept until 5am and, honestly, I think she heard me because she slept from 8:30pm to 5am! I was so excited! Cautiously so, though, and it proved to be a wise decision because the rest of the week she's been back to the 2-5-7 thing. Boooooo.
I did read, from the supernanny book, that she probably won't sleep through the night until she's on solids. It makes sense, but then you hear about those moms whose babies slept through the night at two months. OBVIOUSLY two month olds are not on solids. So, you win some you lose some. I really really can't complain about the sleep thing, though cuz, other than that, O is a dream come true. She's such a happy baby and so easy to read. If she's crying, she's either tired or hungry. If she just ate, you put her to bed and visa versa. Otherwise, she's happy as a clam.
I am still bringing her to bed with me after her middle of the night feedings. I figure that once she does start sleeping through the night, she'll be in her crib. Neither of us will be awake to care. I just can't bring myself to put O back in bed when the ability to snuggle with her is right there. I want it even more now that I am back at work. I love waking up with her. I definitely need therapy. John said that I will regret this when she can't sleep in her own bed when she's five. That may be true, but she IS going to sleep in her crib. My hope is that she is just a very adaptive baby. I am pretty sure I am pressing my luck. But, I also come back to John with "So you will get up and put her back to sleep if she cries." He doesn't have a response for that... Point team mom.
Out of curiosity, I wanted to know how long it takes for alcohol to show up in the boob juice, so I googled the question. To my surprise I found several articles stating that "pumping and dumping" is a waste because alcohol is not stored in the breast milk, like it is not stored in our blood. Once it is out of your blood, it is out of your leche. That means, if you just wait it out, and probably suffer through the rock hard full supply stage, you will eventually have untainted stuff after an adult beverage or two. The fact is, alcohol shows up in the milk 30-60 mins after consumption and you should wait two hours per drink to have it safely out of your system. Now I am flashing back to pouring that sacred stuff down the drain and shedding a tear.
Speaking of shedding, that hair that doesn't fall out when I was pregnant is now starting to fall out again. Not in chunks, like I have heard, but it's back to it's pre-pregnancy state. I have found strands of hair in everything now...bottles, clothes, baby... Now I know how our cat feels.
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