Updates... sortof

Wow, I have so many posts in my head, it's not even funny.

(Ibis, I admire you, you blog every day and I can barely FB. And R, I admire you too, you were posting on the board somewhat regularly by now, I can barely stop by!)

I'll just do a little list, and hopefully I'll be able to expand on things at some point.

• C-section recovery: I want to write a post about the hospital recovery, but that'll take a while. In the meantime, I'm healing well. Moving and getting around was tough at first, and I would have heavy discharge every time I tried to do too much, but that's not quite so bad now. I've learned better ways to get up so I'm not hurting myself all the time, and I'm feeling better.

• I get occasional moments of baby blues, when I just want to sleep and wish someone else would feed my baby. This is especially the case at night, and DH has been a champ taking my outbursts. But overall I'm doing well, and the baby blues episodes don't last too long.

• My new thing is feeling stoned. Sleep deprivation is still my biggest challenge.

• Breastfeeding is going very well. Evan feeds like a champ, and other than doing cluster feedings during the day, he usually gets good feedings followed by a good 3-4 hour nap at night. I still have forceful let down, so he clamps my nipples at the beginning of every feeding. My nipples are sensitive but nothing too bad, definitely nothing to complain about since I know how hard breastfeeding has been for others.

• We started using our cloth diapers yesterday. Evan seems to be ok with them, which is good, but I will say prefolds are bulkier than I expected. We're going to use disposables for night for now, since Evan sleeps for so long and I don't know if having a wet diaper will wake him up from his good naps. And I need those long naps.
  

• If you plan on flying with your baby, be prepared to have whatever bottled milk you have tested. We were very surprised when airport security wanted to check our diaper bag. Turns out they needed to test our breast milk bottles... in case it was a dangerous chemical instead of milk. Go figure.

• Evan was sleeping like a champ during our trip to San Diego. He would wake up, feed, and go back to sleep immediately. Last night we went back to being awake for almost 2 hours. I wonder what about SD made a difference... I wish I knew.

• It's my goal to have something of a schedule set in the next 4 weeks. That's because after that, life will be crazy for a whole month. We're going to the East coast for family to meet Evan, 4 days after coming back we're going to WA to look for a place to rent, and 2 weeks after that we're moving, 1600 miles away. In my mind, having somewhat of a schedule by then will make things easier, even if it goes to hell during that month... I'll be so glad when the craziness is over.

• It has taken me most of the day to write this post. Now I have to figure out how to wake up Evan enough for him to feed, and hope he goes right back to sleep... wish me luck.