You've had a busy week, recovering from your lip-tie surgery, re-learning how to eat, sleeping, and growing back to your birth weight. Not to mention 1 week follow-up appointments, appointment with the pediatrician, and visits to the chiropractor.
With the lip tie release, the dentist suggested that I continue to take you to get cranial sacral therapy so that you can re-learn breast feeding quicker.
The first time we visited the chiropractor, you cried and squirmed, but when we went on Tuesday, as soon as Dr. Colm started to rub your sacrum, I could see your whole face just melt and relax. Your head is starting to become less cone shaped too.
It took about 3 days after the surgery before I could really tell a difference in how you were transferring milk from me and with each passing day, your suck only becomes stronger and your seal becomes tighter. We've been having to supplement about 3-4 oz of formula a day for about a week, but last night, I only had to supplement less than an ounce. Slowly, but surely, we are working towards being exclusively breastfed.
I am pumping after the sessions where we have to supplement with expressed milk or formula. I am taking 6 capsules of fenugreek each day, and every morning, I have a bowl of oatmeal. All these things should help my milk supply increase.
At night, for the most part, you are sleeping 2-3 hour stretches at a time, and on a good night, I can get a good 6-7 hours of sleep (broken into 3 segments). On a bad night, I'm up every hour (but that has only happened 2 nights so far). I know we have passed the most difficult time and that each day should get better and better.
From 7-11, you go through a period of cluster feeding. During this time, you just want to nurse, nurse, nurse.
Until then, I'll cherish the precious quiet moments that we have together at night.
You two have been pretty good. With recent birthdays and random gifts that people send, you two have plenty to keep you busy while I'm feeding Hailey.
Another afternoon, we went to a new Chinese bao restaurant and afterwards, we let you two play at a park. It was interesting watching you two play. Nathan, you do such a great job working yourself into playing with other kids. When older kids came and commandeered the equipment that you were playing on, you handled it well, just going with the flow...something you usually don't do at home. Hannah, you are still very timid. Simply content with watching the action from the sidelines. Sometimes you are very talkative and willing to try new things, but then there are also times where you play it safe and just watch from a distance.
Daddy goes back to work next week, leaving me home with you three by myself. It will probably be challenging at first, but I am confident that things will go well.
This pregnancy has really opened my eyes on the support system that I have in Austin. Even though we have no family here, we have lots of friends and neighbors who we can count on when we need the help.
Even before Hailey arrived, a friend brought over 2 weeks worth of herbal teas to brew for the post partum days. When we were overwhelmed with appointments, a friend brought us a meal. When Hailey was not drawing enough milk out due to a lip tie, our neighbor loaned us her breast pump. And then when we had to rig up a baby scale, another neighbor loaned us their baby scale. On top of that, we will have 6 meals coming in the next 2 weeks from moms in my MOPS group. We are truly blessed.
Until Next week!
Love,
Mommy
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