Today is the first day I have no cried since I got home. Thank you, hormones! Breastfeeding is starting to finally go well - my nipples are slowly starting to heal, and I am pretty sure I don't have any plugged milk ducts or anything - just sore/tender breasts from all of the milk. At least I hope so ... I'm still a bit nervous, but if something happens I guess I will just have to deal with it as it comes. My aunt is coming tomorrow and she is sort of an expert on breastfeeding, so I am going to just talk to her and make sure. If things do start to go downhill with breastfeeding I found that 1) my insurance covers my seeing a lactation consultant, and 2) I can call someone from La Leche League to talk if I have questions, etc. They also have meetings that I can go to if later on when I can bring Laila out I need some support or help. Just knowing that I have those options and that my aunt is here to help me makes me feel so much better. I'm also feeling better because my parents came last night to visit and made us dinner and we just talked and hung out and that made me feel better. My dad is always good at getting my mind off of things and at comforting me - funny, because as a small child that wasn't the case. Then today my in-laws visited and made us dinner, and even cleaned our bathroom! So that was amazing.
Laila has also been sleeping fairly well at night - she sleeps for three hours, feeds, and then sleeps some more. Enzio and I have come up with a pretty good system as well - I get up and feed Laila, and then he changes her diaper and puts her back down to sleep. It means that I am getting to sleep more, which is amazing.
Let's just hope that this good mood lasts. I have a feeling that tomorrow I might be back to stressing and crying - I mean, that's hormones for you. Just taking it one day at a time!
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