Everything in the world of Lew is going well. Evie is a doll, of course, and starting to get more of a personality. By "personality," of course, I mean "crying." But that is OK. She has her "unhappy hour" from 10:30 to about 12:30 each night. I'd prefer that be from 9 to 11 at night, or maybe not even exist at all, but such is life. Jon is pretty good about staying up with her at that time since I get so exhausted by the end of the day. Breastfeeding is exhausting. I'm happy to be giving my daughter the best food possible, but woah. It hurts and it takes forever and I feel like a milking cow 8 hours out of 24. Today Evie has decided to eat for five minutes and then fall into a deep deep sleep. For 45 or 60 minutes, and then she's hungry again. This started at about 4am. I have tried the wake up tricks, but they aren't working this morning. Alas, she'll get back to a normal schedule soon, I'm sure.
I've decided that this time during maternity leave might be a good time to try to learn a new knitting skill. I'm going to try to knit a sweater!! Yes, a sweater. It's not like I have loads of free time on my hands or anything, but I have more now than I will when Evelyn is starting to demand more and more attention AND I'm working 40 hours a week. I have a bit of time to myself now, while she sleeps, and I have an opportunity to go to the knitting shop to get help if I need it. I've found four or five easy-ish sweater patterns, like the one pictured above that I can't figure out how to move down here, and now I just need to choose one and get started.
Oh yeah, and finish the scarf I'm working on. It's coming along very well, just very slowly.
2 comments:
I know it sounds mean, but you could try to put a wet babywipe on her face and then gently blow on her to wake her up, or my friend put ice cubes on her sons feet to wake him up to eat. How are the dogs handling the new addition?
p.s. try using lansinoh lanolin after feeding it really works to soothe sore nipples.
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