We've had a busy two weeks and I owe tons of fun updates, but first and foremost after a rocky start last week Noah successfully took the boob! :) YAY! I attribute Operation Take the Boob's success to the following:
1. He finished his growth spurt
2. We started giving him gas drops which seems to help with him waking up so fussy. We'll be asking the doctor more about the gasman when we go next Friday.
3. He is now full term gestationally (Due Date was November 5)
4. Our good friends the Scotts came for a visit Thursday night through the weekend and I believe Liam was a good role model for Noah. ;)
Noah breastfeeds with Mama all day and Daddy gives him his late bottle (10-12pm) to allow Mama to get some sleep :) Side Note: If you notice from the times mentioned above Noah does not have a real schedule yet...he normally feeds every 2-3 hours, however all his gas makes him cranky and causes his feedings to go for longer periods at times. Also it sometimes wakes him up early from naps/sleep so we'll be checking with the doctor about that too next week. Hopefully if we can solve his gas problem we will have a much happier little boy on our hands. I normally take the middle of the night feedings and then Matt gets his 6:30-8:00am feeding with a bottle. So I normally get 6-7 hours each night which really helps. I know that all the books and EVERYONE always says to sleep when the baby sleeps but here is my dilemma....if I nap while I'm on maternity leave then my body will still want to nap when I'm back at work. Now if I worked in an office it would be so much easier to nap now and get out of the habit, but I don't work in an office I work from home. Do you know how hard it would be to get out of the routine of napping in the comforts of my own home?!?! So no naps for Mama :(
In other fun updating news, we also have successfully breastfed in the car (public) multiple times now. Since Noah and I hadn't quite mastered breastfeeding (sometimes he falls off the boob a couple of times before he gets a good latch) we opt to go to the car so that no one gets a peek :P
Wish us luck as we continue our breastfeeding journey :)
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