I know this is primarily a DIY blog, but the only thing I’ve been DIY-ing lately is a ginormous baby growing inside me. This is my fourth baby and it’s been fun to be pregnant again after four years. I’m 36 weeks now and hopefully this babe will be born in the next three weeks…
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Weigh-in Wednesday #7: So. Very. Tired.
I think I might be missing that part of my brain that tells me to stop eating dessert. And hence, no weight loss this week. Actually, I haven’t been trying to lose weight the last few weeks because I’ve been trying to figure out how to get my milk supply up. Monday was an all-time…
Weigh-In Wednesday #6
Did I weigh myself this week? Yes. Did I do Weight Watchers this week? No. Did I lose weight? Um…yes. Weird. So I’m finding that I’m SLOWLY losing weight no matter what I do. I follow all my points to a T and I lose a pound. Then I throw caution into the wind and…
Breastfeeding at Two Months
Miss E is two months old now. And I’m still breastfeeding! Doesn’t sound like much of an accomplishment but I’ve overcome a lot. Finger feeding to nipple shield with tube. Nipple shield with tube to nipple shield with formula squirted in the tip and supplementing. Nipple shield with formula to Nipple shield alone, still…
Breastfeeding Miss E
Can I just title this post “Breastfeeding Sucks?” I mean literally, yuk yuk. But then I’d get the crazy LLL ladies knocking down my door yelling “IT SHOULDN’T HURT IF YOU HAVE A PROPER LATCH!!!!” Truth be told, breastfeeding doesn’t suck. It’s actually an awesome miraculous thing, that a woman’s body can just magically MAKE…
Me and the Girls
So this is kind of a sensitive subject for me to talk about, but after reading this post, I felt encouraged to share with you all my experience. I have two kids. Both kids are brilliant, healthy, happy, adorable, strong, loved. LOVED beyond anything I could possibly imagine. When I had my first baby, I…
