My pregnancy blogging was short lived. I was too frazzled once she was born to even write a sensical post on facebook, let alone a blog entry.
I am having such issues with breastfeeding, it's insane. Right now I am exclusively pumping. She breast feeds for fun and sleep but not for food. We have gone to lactation consultants, talked to la leche, every person I know who has ever breastfed. It's been a disaster. I just ran out of frozen milk and have had to supplement with a few ounces of formula for the past two days, it's hurting my soul.
I'm pumping as I write this. I pump a lot. I was pumping every two hours with on ly a 5 hour break at night, but I got lucky in the sleep department and get a 10-12 hour break at night. I'm sure if I woke up after 5 hours to pump I wouldn't have a deficiency in my supply, but I can't bring myself to do that anymore. I need sleep. I think the sleep depravation in the beginning was the worst part. I felt like I was dying. She won't sleep during the day unless someone is holding her. Which is fine, but she was doing the same at night when she was a newborn. That was horrid.
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