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My Due Date: July 19, 2015I have given birth!
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Crawling and milk
By rcorinne » Posted Jan. 28, 2016 2:25am - 714 views - 6 comments
Hi all. I have a 6 month old! Emma's proving she's as much of a mover and shaker as her big brother. Overall she's a better sleeper at night. THANK GOODNESS! I seem to get about 5-6 hours of sleep, while she's down for 7-9 hours. It's pretty sucky to be forever short on sleep, but I know I am incredibly blessed to get this uninterrupted time most nights. Since the New Year we've struggled with stress and colds. Cam and Em are both constantly congested and coughing especially in the evening. It seems to be low grade for Cameron. Emma is sometimes perturbed, but generally happy. She's shown some separation anxiety when we set her down the last few days, but this is to be expected since she's developing a new skill, crawling!!! She can belly crawl across a room and proved it to me over the weekend. She's also regularly rocking on her knees, so it's just a matter of time before she picks up speed and crawls on her hands and knees. Emma's diet at daycare is now supplemented by hypoallergenic formula in her cereal and occasionally in a bottle when they run out of pumped milk. I had been off dairy nearly 3 weeks when we took her into her 6 month well check. She's doing awesome on the growth charts and shows physically on par with a 9 month old. Her pediatrician asked how I was holding up. I honestly responded that I'd had a difficult time. She suggested I try a slice of cheese everyday to see how Emma responds to the reintroduction of cow's milk into her breastmilk. I was hesitant, but have done it a handful of times. I haven't seen any blood in her stool, and even braved giving her a couple frozen bags of milk from November this week. Tonight I tried some pizza. I haven't had any this year!!! I'm still maintaining my almond milk for breakfast and watching labels for hidden dairy. This means my diet has been pretty clean. I know exactly what I'm putting in. I feel more in control and slightly less stressed about my diet now. I'm afraid to actually drink milk or eat more than a bit of cheese here or there, though. I hate the idea that she might be hurt by what I eat. My milk production has been declining some with the introduction of solids, the dietary changes, stress, illness, Emma's age, etc. My nipples are cracking regularly. It sucks. I don't know who I'm trying to impress, but I feel like I need to push to get out as much milk as I can during my pumping breaks at work. She's getting the benefits of my milk by nursing and through any little that I pump. I guess I'm just so used to making it work with my son, that it's hard to relax and realize that the formula and perhaps some of the frozen supply in the future will make up for shortages. Sigh. My thyroid tested way out of wack at my work. I may or may not have a gluten tolerance issue. Gassiness sans dairy was much improved by going gluten-free for a couple days, and it lines up with my autoimmune disease. Not gonna strictly follow that, but good to consider. I seem to be developing a sinus infection. We're slowly reintroducing variety into my picky preschooler's diet through bribery. I know. It's not an ideal tactic, but what are you supposed to do with a a kid that spent an entire year not even willing to taste things? He defies logic and reasoning. He used to cry and go to bed hungry when we insisted on him trying things. So far he's been bribed to eat fresh carrots, apples, cucumber, carnitas, a couple bites of chili, and even a tiny bite of my mom's cashew milk broccoli chicken casserole last night. Baby steps. He'll get there. Eventually. Yes, life has been stressful. Yes, I'm typing instead of sleeping. Yes, I may very well need to see a doctor about this illness that seems to be progressing in my sinuses. For some reason, letting you all know what's going on with me helps, though, just to know other moms have my back, you know?
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Crawling and milk
By rcorinne » Posted Jan. 28, 2016 2:25am - 714 views - 6 comments
Hi all. I have a 6 month old! Emma's proving she's as much of a mover and shaker as her big brother. Overall she's a better sleeper at night. THANK GOODNESS! I seem to get about 5-6 hours of sleep, while she's down for 7-9 hours. It's pretty sucky to be forever short on sleep, but I know I am incredibly blessed to get this uninterrupted time most nights. Since the New Year we've struggled with stress and colds. Cam and Em are both constantly congested and coughing especially in the evening. It seems to be low grade for Cameron. Emma is sometimes perturbed, but generally happy. She's shown some separation anxiety when we set her down the last few days, but this is to be expected since she's developing a new skill, crawling!!! She can belly crawl across a room and proved it to me over the weekend. She's also regularly rocking on her knees, so it's just a matter of time before she picks up speed and crawls on her hands and knees. Emma's diet at daycare is now supplemented by hypoallergenic formula in her cereal and occasionally in a bottle when they run out of pumped milk. I had been off dairy nearly 3 weeks when we took her into her 6 month well check. She's doing awesome on the growth charts and shows physically on par with a 9 month old. Her pediatrician asked how I was holding up. I honestly responded that I'd had a difficult time. She suggested I try a slice of cheese everyday to see how Emma responds to the reintroduction of cow's milk into her breastmilk. I was hesitant, but have done it a handful of times. I haven't seen any blood in her stool, and even braved giving her a couple frozen bags of milk from November this week. Tonight I tried some pizza. I haven't had any this year!!! I'm still maintaining my almond milk for breakfast and watching labels for hidden dairy. This means my diet has been pretty clean. I know exactly what I'm putting in. I feel more in control and slightly less stressed about my diet now. I'm afraid to actually drink milk or eat more than a bit of cheese here or there, though. I hate the idea that she might be hurt by what I eat. My milk production has been declining some with the introduction of solids, the dietary changes, stress, illness, Emma's age, etc. My nipples are cracking regularly. It sucks. I don't know who I'm trying to impress, but I feel like I need to push to get out as much milk as I can during my pumping breaks at work. She's getting the benefits of my milk by nursing and through any little that I pump. I guess I'm just so used to making it work with my son, that it's hard to relax and realize that the formula and perhaps some of the frozen supply in the future will make up for shortages. Sigh. My thyroid tested way out of wack at my work. I may or may not have a gluten tolerance issue. Gassiness sans dairy was much improved by going gluten-free for a couple days, and it lines up with my autoimmune disease. Not gonna strictly follow that, but good to consider. I seem to be developing a sinus infection. We're slowly reintroducing variety into my picky preschooler's diet through bribery. I know. It's not an ideal tactic, but what are you supposed to do with a a kid that spent an entire year not even willing to taste things? He defies logic and reasoning. He used to cry and go to bed hungry when we insisted on him trying things. So far he's been bribed to eat fresh carrots, apples, cucumber, carnitas, a couple bites of chili, and even a tiny bite of my mom's cashew milk broccoli chicken casserole last night. Baby steps. He'll get there. Eventually. Yes, life has been stressful. Yes, I'm typing instead of sleeping. Yes, I may very well need to see a doctor about this illness that seems to be progressing in my sinuses. For some reason, letting you all know what's going on with me helps, though, just to know other moms have my back, you know?
Comments for this Journal Entry
 | Comment from Kitten90 » Posted Feb. 1, 2016 11:59am Holy, 6 months already!! Sounds like any day now she's gonna be crawling on hands and knees and we both know how crazy it gets from there lol! |
 | Comment from josamarie » Posted Jan. 31, 2016 12:49am I'm so sorry your struggling with allergies, but it sounds like you are makes no strides with it! Crawling already?! That's amazing, way to go baby! |
| Comment from Cattsmeow » Posted Jan. 30, 2016 8:56pm My nephew had a milk protein allergy during his first year, so my sil went all dairy free. She said it was the hardest thing to do. He grew out of it, though, so hopefully your little one does too. Yay for crawling! I think the belly crawl is such an adorable phase. Sorry about the colds, though. I hope they get to feeling better! |
 | Comment from Summer0120 » Posted Jan. 30, 2016 7:11pm Wow! I can't believe she is already 6 months old. That's crazy!! Time sure does fly. As many problems as we all have feeding babies, I'm surprised the human race has lasted this long. You know what I mean? So many supply or eating issues these days. Glad to hear everything is going well. |
 | Comment from rcorinne » Posted Jan. 30, 2016 12:47am Thanks for sympathizing, pbc. Cameron seems tougher than Emma right now. Twins seem crazy to me, along with stepkids. I love seeing any updates and pics you post. Such cuties! How are you holding up day to day? |
 | Comment from pbc910 » Posted Jan. 29, 2016 11:59pm I can't imagine how frustrating it is to be dealing with these food/milk issues! I am so so upset that I wasn't able to fully breastfeed my babies but I could tell that some of the things I was eating was causing more problems then good. I don't think I could have the determination you have! Hoping you get to feeling better too :) |
