What is happening to my body? Being pregnant was interesting. Not being pregnant and still looking pregnant is getting on my nerves. I have the body odor of a 12 year old who doesn't realize that they stink, (remember that?) deodorant doesn't seem to work as well as it did before. Apparently it's those dang hormones again! I have a bladder infection and I have started my period. I didn't think I could THIS early if I was still breastfeeding. I knew I would most likely get it while I was, I just didn't think it would be so soon. NO BUENO! So it's been interesting the couple of times that I was nursing and had the sudden urge to pee. Sometimes I can hold it and most times I just barely make it. And only having to go acouple tablespoons at a time is driving me nuts!
Brandon has been doing a good job of tricking us into thinking that he sleeps through the night. He seems to have a pattern he follows. One night he'll sleep about 8 hours straight, maybe I'll have to put his Binky back in his mouth but no nursing. The next two nights he wakes up starving around 3:30am to about 4:00, sometimes I fall asleep in the recliner and make it back to bed around 5:00. Then he's up around 7:30am and eats again, gets his diaper changed and back to bed. This time not as sleepy as mommy or daddy he makes happy noises for a while but then realizes something is missing and wants his Binky, but he just hasn't learned the trick of how to keep it in his mouth or how to put it back in once it's out! I can't wait for that day!!!He slept for most of the day yesterday and I know that's why he was so fussy last night.
But I did get a lot of cleaning done. I realized yesterday while I was talking to Toni that I have been using the pregnancy and new mother excuses too much. When I was pregnant I thought to myself, "This is the only time in my life when I can eat what I want! So I'm going to." In the end I had a huge baby, gained crazy weight and had high blood pressure too!
Lesson #1 learned. Take care of yourself when pregnant or you will look pregnant for months after, you put you and the baby's health at risk.
New mother excuse: "No one will expect your house to be clean." Not that I never do the dishes or laundry, I did let them pile up so it takes hours instead of minutes to take care of them. And I'm not usually overly tired, I just use my down time while he's napping or content to watch TV. If anything I should be napping too. So yesterday I cleaned the kitchen, put out the trash... all the way to the compacter, I made three trips. Vacuumed the entire apartment, swept the floor, cleaned off the kitchen table and finally shredded all the papers, recycled about 10-15 pounds of paper, cleaned off the side table and coffee table, did three loads of laundry and two loads of dishes, washed all the pots and pans. I did manage to get a couple egg salad sandwiches in me too. I made a nice Asian style dinner with yakasoba noodle stir fry with chicken and some pot stickers. I started to make some fresh rolls too but we didn't need any more to our meal we had plenty.
Lesson #2 learned, do chores everyday when they are small and they won't pile up and take all day long like you think they will now. Seriously, how long does it take to empty the dishwasher? 5 minutes? Just think of how fortunate we are that we have all the modern conveniences, 50 years ago they weren't as lucky. Not that they were slapping their clothes on rocks in the river (or maybe they were!) but things have improved tremendously.
Dinner was the most challenging. Normally I set Brandon in his car seat on a chair in the "dinning room" and he watches me cook or whatever and I can keep an eye on him and replace his Binky when it falls out. He was not having that. Touching raw chicken and sausage and having a crying baby is not fun. Someone might try to convince you that it is but they're lying! So I had to turn off the stove and pause dinner for about 20 minutes. John walks though the door and I tell him diner is on hold till he's finished eating. John takes a shower and I finish feeding Brandon. Burp him and right back to the car seat... Cranky baby! John gets out of the shower and comes help comfort Peanut so I can finish cooking. John and I haven't been able to eat dinner together at the same time for weeks. One of us is soothing him and the other eats. He does really well when we go out to eat because he usually falls asleep in the car on the way to the restaurant! So after dinner John crashes on the couch and I feed the baby again... I guess he didn't get all he could eat, after all I am a 24 hours a day all you can eat buffet with only one thing on the menu. Which seems to be okay by him.
