I've been getting asked this question often now. I guess it mostly depends on how much sleep I've gotten the night before. There appears to be some pattern emerging. Little Miss Aesha changes it for us daily. Some nights she's fussy - other nights she's an angel. We're trying to figure out what causes the fussiness.
Last night - I knew I was in for a long one. She slept from 7pm to 12:30am waking up only once to feed for 10 minutes. Too easy. She woke up at 3:30 hungry and furious. Nothing would calm her down and she wasn't going to take the breast easily. After 2 hours - and tired of screaming and crying - she finally took the breast and fell asleep in 10 minutes. She woke up again at 9:30 and AG took her upstairs and let me nap for another hour. The rest of the day has been trying to get lunch while holding her and then feeding her off and on again every hour and a half or two hours if I'm lucky.
Margo came at noon and hung out for an hour. Thankfully she slept most of the hour. Then I tried to nap between 3-4pm - got woken up at 4:30 and tried to feed her until 5:30. It's now 6pm and I've given up and given her to AG who is rocking her on the bouncing chair. She seems to like it. So now I'll try to clean up a bit before Kerry comes over - and she'll probably wake up at around 7:30pm for another feeding. If I'm lucky, dinner will be done by 9:30 and she will wake up for one more feeding before midnight... then she usually sleeps until 4am.
So that's my day... with little time in between for going out or doing anything. I'm sure once we get this down, she'll change it on us.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Being a mommy - ain't easy
It's now 16+ days since Aesha was born and just when I think I'm getting the hang out it - she changes something on us. Her feeding is going well - I thought I figured out a brilliant solution to her "grazing." While she is nursing on one breast, I pump on the other and then we give it to her in a bottle - that way we make sure she is getting the hindmilk and she can suck down the milk in the bottle faster.
Also, when she was grazing, she would end up falling asleep before she was full and would wake up 30 minutes later just as hungry and a little more agitated. This does not allow for mommy downtime and was exhausting me. The bottle was working well, but now she does not like the bottle. AG has had to pull out all his tricks to try to get her to suck down half an ounce and she's supposed to have 2 ounces per feeding. Today has been a challenging day. I finally swaddled her up - gave up feeding her on the bottle and gave her the breast. Of course she fell asleep in 10 minutes. I hope she got enough.
The weather has been so beautiful and today is so warm. I wanted to attend the mother's group luncheon with the other 5 couples from our birthing class, now that everyone has had their baby. Anyella, the other woman who has kaiser, coincidentally had a c-section as well. Everyone else had a vaginal delivery - hrm....
Last night we went to Sandy/Carla's for dinner - they are so sweet. It was their last night before they went back to work - from a month long vacation and they chose to spend it with us. Sandy made a delicious salmon and pork loin dinner - we brought a salad. Carla is utterly enthralled with Aesha. It's so sweet to see. Aesha is awake more and more often and is as cute as ever. But her stubborness and willfulness is showing through - and AG is so great with her. He takes his time with her - talking to her, singing to her, walking her around and soothing her when she cries. I've never seen a more dedicated father - he's really amazing and I'm super lucky to have him as a partner.
My wound is completely healed now - but every once in awhile I get some sharp pains. I still cannot sleep on my side and internally I'm not completely myself - but I'm moving around a lot more and can't wait to get out of the house. Lots of family coming in this weekend. Initially it was only my parents, but Chris, Al and Karen are coming down for Rudy's book signing in San Jose - so we decided to layer everyone in. We'll have some one on one time with Chris and Al Friday then Saturday my parents get to have full access to Aesha since they haven't met her yet. We'll probably try to have dinner in San Jose. Monday we'll have one on one time with Karen. I'm sure Grandma Karen will be excited to have a full day with her little Aesha. Pictures of little Aesha are at www.aeshamaysun.blogspot.com
Also, when she was grazing, she would end up falling asleep before she was full and would wake up 30 minutes later just as hungry and a little more agitated. This does not allow for mommy downtime and was exhausting me. The bottle was working well, but now she does not like the bottle. AG has had to pull out all his tricks to try to get her to suck down half an ounce and she's supposed to have 2 ounces per feeding. Today has been a challenging day. I finally swaddled her up - gave up feeding her on the bottle and gave her the breast. Of course she fell asleep in 10 minutes. I hope she got enough.
The weather has been so beautiful and today is so warm. I wanted to attend the mother's group luncheon with the other 5 couples from our birthing class, now that everyone has had their baby. Anyella, the other woman who has kaiser, coincidentally had a c-section as well. Everyone else had a vaginal delivery - hrm....
Last night we went to Sandy/Carla's for dinner - they are so sweet. It was their last night before they went back to work - from a month long vacation and they chose to spend it with us. Sandy made a delicious salmon and pork loin dinner - we brought a salad. Carla is utterly enthralled with Aesha. It's so sweet to see. Aesha is awake more and more often and is as cute as ever. But her stubborness and willfulness is showing through - and AG is so great with her. He takes his time with her - talking to her, singing to her, walking her around and soothing her when she cries. I've never seen a more dedicated father - he's really amazing and I'm super lucky to have him as a partner.
My wound is completely healed now - but every once in awhile I get some sharp pains. I still cannot sleep on my side and internally I'm not completely myself - but I'm moving around a lot more and can't wait to get out of the house. Lots of family coming in this weekend. Initially it was only my parents, but Chris, Al and Karen are coming down for Rudy's book signing in San Jose - so we decided to layer everyone in. We'll have some one on one time with Chris and Al Friday then Saturday my parents get to have full access to Aesha since they haven't met her yet. We'll probably try to have dinner in San Jose. Monday we'll have one on one time with Karen. I'm sure Grandma Karen will be excited to have a full day with her little Aesha. Pictures of little Aesha are at www.aeshamaysun.blogspot.com
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