I jinxed myself

On Monday we went back to Carol's (the lactation consultant) and we were talking about how relax and chilled out Dylan has been since she was born. I brought her home and she would not settled down. She was in such a mood that she just would not want to nap until much later that night. So maybe she was over tired because we spend so much time at Carol's or maybe she is just gaining weight so she is staying awake more. I thought yesterday was a fluke. But today, she pulled the same thing this afternoon. Also, her schedule is messed up because she is now exclusively BFing until Thursday. We are going back to the pediatrician and we want to see if she is gaining weight by BFing rather then using a bottle.

She is gaining weight. She is back to her discharge weight 6 lbs 4 oz. She is feeding more on demand rather then on a schedule which is harder for me. I don't get a chance to recover and pump. Also pumping has been reduced to 5 times a day. Yea for me!!! She also has a small diaper rash. I had to run out to the school and get some diaper cream. Hopefully that will clear up. I was reading that it is more common with the hotter weather or it could be the laundry soap that we are using. But hopefully, it is nothing and it will clear up in a few days. I don't want to use a new detergent. Again, I have said this before, if her skin is super sensitive from cloth diapers, we will switch to gdiapers.

Speaking of diapers, I was taking a picture of her getting change last week and she was the most modest little girl in the world. It was super cute. She also gets modest when I am feeding her. She will move her free arm over her eyes and face. She is like "Mom, Stop watching me feed. You are super paranoid. I am getting enough to eat now." Well, I better wake her up so she can eat.



Plus, when I do want her to sleep, I moby wrap her. I love this wrap.

Shhh....

The little one is sleeping right now in her pack in play. So it will give me a chance to tell you all about the first few days of her life.

She has officially made her daddy a daddy. She peed on him and split up on him. This morning when he went to change her diaper, she decided to poop all over the mat. It was a great thing. Two poops today. Go Dylan. She has not poop she we got home from the hospital. She has been doing great with the pees but not the poops until today. But the score is Dylan 2, Nick 0.

We have been having breastfeeding issues. It is a combination of being a late-pre-term baby, sore nipples, lack of sucking, supply and demand issues. So we saw a lactation consultant yesterday and hopefully that will put us back in track. We were doing so well up until monday. It also did not help that we had so many nurses telling us what was right or wrong and one nurse that was just a jerk. I have to feed her at least every 3 hours. So as long as she is getting 8 feeding within 24hr, she will be fine. What doesn't come out of me has been supplemented with formula and a bottle. http://breastbabyproducts.com/ She is the one helping us. She bills our insurance and she is a master at her craft. FYI

We saw the pediatrician yesterday as well. So Dy is doing good. She had gain one oz from her discharge weight. It was just a check-in type of appointment due to the fact that I did not deliver at Edwards so they had to make sure she was okay. She is going to have her full check up on the 2nd. She gets a little jaundice at times but it clears up almost right away.

Okay she is waking up. So I will post more later. In the meantime, flick was updated.

What can you do?

I took breastfeeding basics last night. A lot of it was a repeat of the stuff we learned back in March from the childbirth prep class but I figure with it being May and due in about 7 weeks that refreshing on this skill might be a good thing to do. We did cover partner helpfulness and what can he do when he cannot physically feed the child. I figure I might want to apply that to everyone else as well. I know in the next few weeks, we are going to be getting calls and facebook and e-mails from our various friends and family about what can they do to help us new parents out?

Now granted, I really do not know what we will need help with when the baby comes but there are somethings that I can safely say that we could use help with. Since once the baby is born and home, my job is to eat, sleep and provide food for the baby. Nothing else. So Nick could use some help and we could just use some help.

So What Can You Do?

Help us with dinner, food related issues like grocery shopping. If you want to prepare for this, feel free to come over and look through some of our cookbooks and we will point out some of our favorite recipes. With grocery shopping, we are going to finally try peapod as well but we can always use someone to make sure we have basic items, like soymilk, cereal (since I had to run to the store this morning to get some) and other items.

Laundry, between the cloth diapers, our child's clothes and our child, we could use someone to help us with folding and putting away and doing the laundry.

Adult conversation, After that first week, I could use people just to stop by for 20 minutes or whenever just to talk to me. After nick goes back to work, it would be nice to see people and talk to them even though all conversation may be about the baby.

Hanging out with the baby while I take a shower or letting me go out by myself for 10 minutes or something like that. Or taking me and the baby out to a park and hang out.

Send out baby announcements. This will be something that someone can come over before hand to know what will need to be done after the baby gets here. You would have to order and mail them out. But we can discuss what will need to be done weeks before the baby comes.

Again, this is just a suggestion. If you have any ideas let me know. Again, we really will not know what our world is going to be after the baby comes but we will need help. Even just coming over for 5 minutes would be just nice. So do not think you have to do a lot. Also, if you do not have our contact information, please e-mail me to get our numbers

I found a link to advice and help from friends about a new baby and what can a person do?

http://kvetch.indiebride.com/index.php?t=msg&th=40173&start=0&rid=0&S=9b30762f5b66f29ab13335694ce27b47


Thought of one more thing: as from example this morning, it would be nice for people to come over and play with Tori. She will need love as well.

Children's Health Partners

We are going out to see Children's Health Partners tonight in Naperville to see if we would like them to be our pediatricians. I want a pediatrician that is a smaller practice no more then 5 doctors at the most. I would like the practice to be more green friendly/progressive with their approach with medicine. I do not know where I stand on the whole childhood immunizations issue but I was reading reviews about this practice and they are flexible about the subject. I want the practice to be very supportive over breastfeeding which it looks like they are. So we will see what the informational session brings and what they say about their methods. I can only assume that all the doctors have a standard of practice uniting them together.

Question time: Do you have any recommendations for a pediatrician that is in line with our guidelines?