baby wyatt

baby wyatt

Monday, December 17, 2012

Wyatt has never slept more than 6 hours (past 3:30am) and it is 7:30 and he is still in there sleeping. I woke up at 4:30 because I needed him to nurse, but I couldn't in wake him up because he has had such a rough few nights with fevers. Of course, I had to double check the baby monitor and go upstairs to make sure he was still breathing. I ended up pumping. and then I pumped again at like 6:30. I had a REALLY rough patch there when I was working 2nd shifts. I had a very very heave period that lasted like 8 nights and between not being at home with Wyatt and him not feeling well, and eating more baby food, I thought I was going to end up weaning him. It was horrible. Every pump session I almost cried... I was getting like 1.5 ounce per boob instead of like 3.5 ounces. One night when I got home, I tried to nurse Wyatt and he just kept suckling and suckling, but I knew he wasn't going to get any. We ended up giving him the milk I pumped for the next day in the middle of the night, and he was very angry when that was gone, so he got two ounces of formula. He hasn't had any formula since I went to the ER when he was a week old, and some when he first started daycare when I dropped an 8 ounce bottle of breast milk in the parking lot and it exploded. He promptly threw up everything. So either, he had an upset stomach to begin with or the formula pushed him over the edge. Anyway, I was just devastated. Luckily, I still have about 40 ounces of frozen milk, and my friend Catherine had some frozen milk that she donated to my cause. And this week, my milk supply is back with a vengence. I am so thankful for that. I really do not want to supplement Wyatt. I have been crying almost everyday because of the shooting in CN. I feel very hopeless that there will be any change in the guns avalable to the public, and also very hopeless that people with anger issues and mental health issues will have any resources except jail.

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