Case of the Mondays?

[judyblume14]

I can't possibly be the only one with a ton of bitches this gloomy Monday morning...

Commiserate with me, won't you?

[judyblume14]

1) My usually soundly sleeping baby decided to scream and party from midnight to 3am, and wake up for the day at 5. Awesome.

2) Because she was cranky I nursed her more last night than I typically do. So the output from my first pumping session was shit.

3) To encourage milk production, I made myself oatmeal for second breakfast. But since I wasn't planning on having it, I had no mix-ins. Do you know how gross plain oatmeal is? Ugh

4) My wonderful mother-in-law is coming to visit on night this week (she really is wonderful, that's not sarcastic). We're only home for 45 minutes before she goes down for the night. About 20 of those minutes are spent nursing and rocking and singing her to sleep. Why would she want to visit for just 25 rushed minutes on a weeknight, when a weekend visit would be so much longer / full of quality time!

5) I did yoga yesterday, thinking it'd be a great way to stretch after a tough workout on Saturday. Instead, it just added to the existing soreness.

I want to go home, wrap up in my Snuggie, eat pizza and ice cream, and catch up on Pretty Little Liars.

[alioop1028]

Agreed, I don't know what it is about this Monday but it really sucks.

judyblume14 we should have had a pizza and ice cream party together last night because my child was up also. The best part is that my kid has decided that she no longer wants to breast feed and has a screamfest every time I try to nurse her. I guess I'm EP now...

[alioop1028]

This is what I need...

[judyblume14]

well, alioop1028, we COULD have shared a sundae... except THERE IS NO ICE CREAM IN MY HOUSE. wtf.

Sorry your kiddo's being stubborn at the boob. Good luck with EPing - it seems exhausting!

[alioop1028]

Feb 9, 2015 10:48:08 GMT -5 judyblume14 said:

well, alioop1028, we COULD have shared a sundae... except THERE IS NO ICE CREAM IN MY HOUSE. wtf.

Sorry your kiddo's being stubborn at the boob. Good luck with EPing - it seems exhausting!

What! No ice cream! If there was a way to send you ice cream digitally I would. 

It is exhausting. I hate pumping. It's the worst. But it's better than plain oatmeal. Lol Ew. You're a trooper.

[bainidhe]

I'm sending you tacos a day early, judyblume14. Allll the tacos.
LO was doing the same thing last night - I wound up nursing him way more/later than normal bc he kept freaking out, so (a) I'm kind of a zombie today, and (b) I only got about 2/3 my normal morning pump. Also I am having the second type of day today, but I never made it grocery shopping yesterday so I'm going to have to do it after work tonight, or else there will be no milk for my oatmeal tomorrow, and that is just not happening.

[judyblume14]

Wait, you put mil in your oatmeal, bainidhe?

@adulruna - I have no idea if it actually does anything to increase my supply. I figure, it can't hurt?

[bainidhe]

judyblume14, definitely. I made overnight oats middle of last week, and I mix in milk when I heat them up to help keep it from being so thick and ...oatmealy? You know what I mean.

[anewadventure]

lol at plain oatmeal.

add E to the list of crazy babies that were up all night last night. ugh. is it a full moon or something?
aka let's remember those fun weeks in september when everyone was saying we'd have our babies because of the full moon... but wait, didn't you actually follow through on this judyblume14?? i can't remember exactly)

[doglover31]

I just hate Monday's....I'm tired and want sleep. And work is not where I want to be today!

[judyblume14]

anewadventure, there sure was a full moon on 9/8. Every bed in my hospital was full!

[rkang01]

Feb 9, 2015 10:45:03 GMT -5 alioop1028 said:

Agreed, I don't know what it is about this Monday but it really sucks.

judyblume14 we should have had a pizza and ice cream party together last night because my child was up also. The best part is that my kid has decided that she no longer wants to breast feed and has a screamfest every time I try to nurse her. I guess I'm EP now...

My DD is refusing to nurse as well. It is so frustrating because I spent so much time/money/energy to make breastfeeding work. She screams as if i am trying to poison in her mouth when I try to breast feed. Although I can sleep get to her nurse to sleep if I give her half a bottle before. And she will still nurse in the middle of the night. I decided I am going to pump until she is 6 months and then it is time to throw in the towel.


Also on the oatmeal and lactation cookie subject I have started drinking lactation smoothies in the morning. I used an oatmeal smoothie recipe and then just add brewers yeast and flaxseed to it. You can make them the night before or in the morning. It helps with the boring oatmeal every morning routine.

[yuristar]

Feb 9, 2015 15:46:27 GMT -5 rkang01 said:

Feb 9, 2015 10:45:03 GMT -5 alioop1028 said:

Agreed, I don't know what it is about this Monday but it really sucks.

judyblume14 we should have had a pizza and ice cream party together last night because my child was up also. The best part is that my kid has decided that she no longer wants to breast feed and has a screamfest every time I try to nurse her. I guess I'm EP now...

My DD is refusing to nurse as well. It is so frustrating because I spent so much time/money/energy to make breastfeeding work. She screams as if i am trying to poison in her mouth when I try to breast feed. Although I can sleep get to her nurse to sleep if I give her half a bottle before. And she will still nurse in the middle of the night. I decided I am going to pump until she is 6 months and then it is time to throw in the towel.


Also on the oatmeal and lactation cookie subject I have started drinking lactation smoothies in the morning. I used an oatmeal smoothie recipe and then just add brewers yeast and flaxseed to it. You can make them the night before or in the morning. It helps with the boring oatmeal every morning routine.

This happened to me a month and a half ago. I got very sad, but ow we have our own little EP routine. I keep offering my breast every now and then and sometimes he takes it (not very often though)

[rkang01]

Feb 9, 2015 16:18:08 GMT -5 yuristar said:

Feb 9, 2015 15:46:27 GMT -5 rkang01 said:

My DD is refusing to nurse as well. It is so frustrating because I spent so much time/money/energy to make breastfeeding work. She screams as if i am trying to poison in her mouth when I try to breast feed. Although I can sleep get to her nurse to sleep if I give her half a bottle before. And she will still nurse in the middle of the night. I decided I am going to pump until she is 6 months and then it is time to throw in the towel.


Also on the oatmeal and lactation cookie subject I have started drinking lactation smoothies in the morning. I used an oatmeal smoothie recipe and then just add brewers yeast and flaxseed to it. You can make them the night before or in the morning. It helps with the boring oatmeal every morning routine.

This happened to me a month and a half ago. I got very sad, but ow we have our own little EP routine. I keep offering my breast every now and then and sometimes he takes it (not very often though)

It is kinda nice to hear that others have gone through this. I kept thinking I did something wrong because she went from loving it to hating it over night.

[alioop1028]

Feb 9, 2015 15:46:27 GMT -5 rkang01 said:

Feb 9, 2015 10:45:03 GMT -5 alioop1028 said:

Agreed, I don't know what it is about this Monday but it really sucks.

judyblume14 we should have had a pizza and ice cream party together last night because my child was up also. The best part is that my kid has decided that she no longer wants to breast feed and has a screamfest every time I try to nurse her. I guess I'm EP now...

My DD is refusing to nurse as well. It is so frustrating because I spent so much time/money/energy to make breastfeeding work. She screams as if i am trying to poison in her mouth when I try to breast feed. Although I can sleep get to her nurse to sleep if I give her half a bottle before. And she will still nurse in the middle of the night. I decided I am going to pump until she is 6 months and then it is time to throw in the towel.


Also on the oatmeal and lactation cookie subject I have started drinking lactation smoothies in the morning. I used an oatmeal smoothie recipe and then just add brewers yeast and flaxseed to it. You can make them the night before or in the morning. It helps with the boring oatmeal every morning routine.

Lol @ the poison. Ditto on the pumping till 6 months. I am counting the days. Apparently we both abuse our children with breast milk. And smoothies sound like an awesome alternative.

[thelittlesrunmylife]

We didn't have power from 9:30-2:30 today. Apparently one of the poles that bring the power to our town was blown down in a wind storm and it pulled about another dozen down with it.

The toddler wasn't even awake yet. I had to use the BBQ to make macaroni and cheese for lunch and venture out to pick up the big kids from school.

[designaddiction]

LO fusses at the boob too, sometimes I put a pacifier in his mouth for a sec, then take it out and put the boob in real quick, that and I switch sides all the time.

I never pump as much as he eats though, and my stash is swindling slowly. I guess it is time to get on the oatmeal and all other milk increasing foods band wagon.

My bitch is it's Monday, bleh. Work sucked and I don't wanna go back again tomorrow.

And my cousin, aka our nanny, is moving at the end of the month and we have to find new child care :/ I really need to get on that but I'm in denial.

[alioop1028]

Feb 9, 2015 21:47:15 GMT -5 thelittlesrunmylife said:

We didn't have power from 9:30-2:30 today. Apparently one of the poles that bring the power to our town was blown down in a wind storm and it pulled about another dozen down with it.

The toddler wasn't even awake yet. I had to use the BBQ to make macaroni and cheese for lunch and venture out to pick up the big kids from school.

Mac and Cheese on a BBQ!!! You are Macgyver! Holy crap.

[thelittlesrunmylife]

Feb 10, 2015 11:08:56 GMT -5 alioop1028 said:

Feb 9, 2015 21:47:15 GMT -5 thelittlesrunmylife said:

We didn't have power from 9:30-2:30 today. Apparently one of the poles that bring the power to our town was blown down in a wind storm and it pulled about another dozen down with it.

The toddler wasn't even awake yet. I had to use the BBQ to make macaroni and cheese for lunch and venture out to pick up the big kids from school.

Mac and Cheese on a BBQ!!! You are Macgyver! Holy crap.

Thanks but our BBQ has a burner on the side so it's like cooking on a gas stove!

[anewadventure]

Feb 10, 2015 13:14:27 GMT -5 thelittlesrunmylife said:

Feb 10, 2015 11:08:56 GMT -5 alioop1028 said:

Mac and Cheese on a BBQ!!! You are Macgyver! Holy crap.

Thanks but our BBQ has a burner on the side so it's like cooking on a gas stove!

nahhhh come on, you should have played that up. tell us how you jury-rigged a system out of spare bicycle parts, tp rolls, a string, and a paperclip.

[thelittlesrunmylife]

Feb 10, 2015 14:04:04 GMT -5 anewadventure said:

Feb 10, 2015 13:14:27 GMT -5 thelittlesrunmylife said:

Thanks but our BBQ has a burner on the side so it's like cooking on a gas stove!

nahhhh come on, you should have played that up. tell us how you jury-rigged a system out of spare bicycle parts, tp rolls, a string, and a paperclip.

My big kids did think it was pretty sweet. It tasted pretty damn good too!