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Back to work tomorrow. So strange! Once again I got up when I would be for work and Brian got up when he would be (and ignored me when I would have been gone already). Around the time he would have been driving her to the childcare center she was due for a nap. I brought her up, swaddled her, rocked her a bit and got her to sleep in the crib! Alone! Not in a car seat! She's been sleeping for over an hour and a half now. Yay.
The Mom's group I had joined at http://www.mspp.edu/community/freedman-center/ ended last week, but since we met up on Mondays and I won't be working on Mondays, I'm going to try and get together with the ladies when it makes sense in our schedules. I want to spend Monday doing quality things with Mina, not just shuttling around from errand to errand. I think getting her around other babies though is important. The group is talking of just taking it a week at a time, meeting up at someone's house or at a park, museum or whatever. We're heading to a Mom's house in Newton today (same time our group would have been meeting).
I was doing well with pumping, then gave up for a day, then picked up up again (albeit spotty since I was in NH for Easter). I think the plan is that I'll pump when I need to, try the breast and if she won't take it, use a bottle. We'll use expressed milk when we have it and formula when we don't, though we'll probably do formula to put her to bed at night (and I'll pump at the same time) because it will knock her out for longer. I just don't have a supply to satisfy her over a whole day, so if I'm going to supplement that time makes the most sense to me! She slept almost 6 hours last night and when she woke up hungry I was able to breast feed her over a 40 or so minute period. I don't think she got to the hindmilk, but she didn't want to eat anymore and fell asleep for another few hours. She's just UP at 6:00 AM it seems.
I napped for a couple of hours and hopped in the shower at 5:00. I'll need to leave the house at either 6:30 or 7:00 depending on meetings, so that gives me time to get myself together and have time to care for Mina before I go. She woke up after I had showered, dressed and pumped while eating breakfast. I didn't have enough time to try breastfeeding (assuming I had to get out the door at 7) so I gave her a bottle of what I had just pumped and then gave her to her Dad for me to "leave the house". All morning he was talking to her about "invisible Mommy" as I ws in the other room, not helping him do what he had to do to "get her in the car for daycare".
So, so strange.
I'm skipping dance class tomorrow, because for my first day at work and away from her, coming home to see her for only a couple of hours before dance class would kill me (she'd be heading to bed when I got home). It's our wedding anniversary too, so we'll have a nice romantic trip for burritos with Mina or something to celebrate together.
The Mom's group I had joined at http://www.mspp.edu/community/freedman-center/ ended last week, but since we met up on Mondays and I won't be working on Mondays, I'm going to try and get together with the ladies when it makes sense in our schedules. I want to spend Monday doing quality things with Mina, not just shuttling around from errand to errand. I think getting her around other babies though is important. The group is talking of just taking it a week at a time, meeting up at someone's house or at a park, museum or whatever. We're heading to a Mom's house in Newton today (same time our group would have been meeting).
I was doing well with pumping, then gave up for a day, then picked up up again (albeit spotty since I was in NH for Easter). I think the plan is that I'll pump when I need to, try the breast and if she won't take it, use a bottle. We'll use expressed milk when we have it and formula when we don't, though we'll probably do formula to put her to bed at night (and I'll pump at the same time) because it will knock her out for longer. I just don't have a supply to satisfy her over a whole day, so if I'm going to supplement that time makes the most sense to me! She slept almost 6 hours last night and when she woke up hungry I was able to breast feed her over a 40 or so minute period. I don't think she got to the hindmilk, but she didn't want to eat anymore and fell asleep for another few hours. She's just UP at 6:00 AM it seems.
I napped for a couple of hours and hopped in the shower at 5:00. I'll need to leave the house at either 6:30 or 7:00 depending on meetings, so that gives me time to get myself together and have time to care for Mina before I go. She woke up after I had showered, dressed and pumped while eating breakfast. I didn't have enough time to try breastfeeding (assuming I had to get out the door at 7) so I gave her a bottle of what I had just pumped and then gave her to her Dad for me to "leave the house". All morning he was talking to her about "invisible Mommy" as I ws in the other room, not helping him do what he had to do to "get her in the car for daycare".
So, so strange.
I'm skipping dance class tomorrow, because for my first day at work and away from her, coming home to see her for only a couple of hours before dance class would kill me (she'd be heading to bed when I got home). It's our wedding anniversary too, so we'll have a nice romantic trip for burritos with Mina or something to celebrate together.
