Looking at the week ahead.............

Busy week ahead. I have so much going on. After working the whole weekend I am of course behind on cleaning. I love Randy but he is not as good as keeping the house in order as I am. Laundry is something i cannot get the man to do. He will fold, clean but I have a hard time getting anything put away. I spend all day Monday playing catch up. Oh well. I have to work. I have to clean. I have to do the things I do. 

So my week is pretty full. Today I work yet again. Tomorrow I am off but Tina has yet another appointment about her utis. Wednesday I have a training most of the day and then I work. I go right from the training to work. Thursday I may get to relax at home. Probably will be behind on chores due to all the appointment though. Friday I have an ob appointment and then we have to go get Tina from school and go to Cosi. We have tickets to see the dinosaur exhibit. We are members so we get a seek peek at it before everyone else. I am excited to get another activity in before Corbin is here. I know things are going to be tough for the girls at first. but with time things will get easier. 

Weekend
Well Randy is putting up the pool. Yes is it that time of year again. He has to smooth out the dirt and get it up. I cannot wait to let the girls swim. I am sure they are getting excited about that part of summer coming. Probably mid June Swimming can begin again. Once the water warms up. I cannot wait to swim myself. I miss it so much. Sitting in my little chair in the pool with Randy in the candle light. Talking laughing. being married. Hopefully Corbin lets us have that. So excited for summer!

97% of women need three things to breatfeed, Education, Support and Boobs!

I sit back and watch so many people on social networks talk about how they cannot breastfeed. I hear women talk about how their supply was not there or how they could not latch the baby after trying a couple of times. I do not know about you but to me it is obvious what the problem is. Lack of education, commitment and determination. 

To the women who say I did not have the supply. Did you exclusively breastfeed? Did you supplement before your milk was established? Breastfeeding is a supply and demand relationship. If you do not use it, then you loose it.Did you use artificial nipples that may have confused the infant? If you answered yes to any of these questions then that is probably your problem. 


"I cannot get him or her to latch." Have you tried more than just in the hospital? Did you give your child supplements? Did you try different holds? Did you continue at it? Are you really wanting to breastfeed? Because in order to successfully breastfeed you need to continue at it for at least til your milk is well established. 6 weeks or so. Be honest with yourself. Are you just "trying" it or do you really want to do it? Trying and doing are two different things. Doing requires determination and attempting over and over. Even when you are tired, in pain, and just want to give up. You try the next thing. You do more research. You contact the Lactation Consultant. That is doing. 

Trying is sticking the baby up to the boob a couple times in the hospital and giving up because it is hard. Or listening to the nurses bullshit about blood sugar ( they tried to get me to supplement with that lie) Baby is fine. There is colostrum and it is all your baby needs the first few days. I mean what did women do before formula? Something to ask yourself. 


I am not trying to put anyone down with this blog. What you choose to do with your baby is your choice. I do think women need more support and need to be more educated about breastfeeding. Mainly because breastfeeding would help with many child hood illnesses and disorders. That has been proven by the medical community over and over again. 


Now back to my point. 

One thing that really annoys me about people and breastfeeding is the whole line my child was formula fed and they did not die. No they did not die. But they did not get the right nutrition. They could have been spared from that ear infection or that cold. I feel like most women know this and feel guilty about it. That is why they attack breastfeeding. Out of guilt and out of jealousy. 

But really at the end of the day I do not even blame women to why breastfeeding is not more common. I blame our society and our culture. We see boobs as sexual objects. We see nudity as something dirty. We are taught to be ashamed of our bodies. We are taught boobs are for the sexual gratification of men. So not true. And not right.

I am proud of my body. I am proud of my boobs. I have no problem breastfeeding in public. I have no problem with making someone uncomfortable to feed my child. Seriously how immature is if for a person to feel uncomfortable over a breast? That person needs to grow up. That person needs to change their thinking. Breasts are to feed our children. That is why we have them. That is their first purpose. I hope someday to live in a world where women want to breastfeed and it is more accepted than formula. That is a dream of mine. I want to see more women nursing in public and less of those disgusting artificial nipples. I want to see more nurses encourage and nurture the breastfeeding relationship. Instead of handing out false information and discouraging it. That is my dream. I hope it comes true sooner than later.

Update on how things are going........ Have not witten in awhile.

Tomorrow I am 36 weeks pregnant. Time is going fast. Randy is working hard on gettting the dresser done before I have the baby. I think I will probably end up putting the kids to bed by myself tonight. I am tired but he has to work as long as he can.

School is winding down for the year and Tina was accepted for open enrollment yet again. Very happy she gets to continue going to the best public school in the county. I am very proud of her accomplishments there. She is playing softball for River Vally. Due to the crappy weather the season is taking forever go take off. I am hoping there are some game and practices soon. It's kind of working out because Randy is getting some much needed time to work on the dresser.

As for me I am winding down on work. I have 9 days left then I am on maternity leave. At least two weeks of it will be paid. 29 days til my due date. Wow this pregnancy has went fast. I cannot wait to hold my little man. I have been waiting for him for so long. I am very lucky to finally be having a son!

I really would like to go to Cosi before I have the baby. They are having a members only viewing of the dinosaur exhibit. I have been waiting to take the kids.

Tina's First solfball game!

Tina had her first softball game yesterday night. It was a late game. Not to mention very cold. Anyway, this is her first year in kid pitch. She did not know all the rules yet because they have had one practice due to all the rain. She was so confused at one point that she did not know that she was just walked on first base. She also had difficulty being the catcher. She could not bend down like she needed to. Then when the coach was yelling run she ran but he was not talking to her. She cried a couple of times. I helped her dust it off. She is so much like me at her age. Gets embarrassed easy. I felt bad for her But she has to learn that life is full of embarrassments. She will get better at ball. She just has to pay attention and keep trying.

On another note, there are only 40 days til my due date. Wow it has went fast. I really hope Randy can get the dresser done soon. I am starting to feel overwhelmed. I want things to be done already. We have the baseboard to finish and the dresser that needs done. Other than that I am think we are just about there. 34 weeks pregnant. Can you believe it? I know I am having a hard time.