{"id":1810,"date":"2011-04-19T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/19\/spring-weaning-and-musings"},"modified":"2011-04-19T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:44:00","slug":"spring-weaning-and-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2011\/04\/19\/spring-weaning-and-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring weaning and musings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0So weaning.\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 It’s hard to get going.\u00a0 I’m vacillating between slowly taking Jack off breastfeeding and to only milk\/formula in bottles (ie, not decreasing his feedings, just taking me out of the equation) and not doing anything.\u00a0 Just riding it out.<\/p>\n

He bites me.\u00a0 It’s not a sudden bite that I can discipline.\u00a0 It’s a slow, absentminded clamp down that leaves deeps marks on me.\u00a0 He doesn’t eat as much when I feed him versus a bottle, so he doesn’t sleep as well after I feed him.\u00a0 I’m tired of pumping at work.\u00a0 I broke my pump, in fact.\u00a0 Ben fixed it by wedging a thick fold of paper in the interior.\u00a0 But it worries me that it could break again at work and I won’t have the time to fix it.\u00a0 I don’t need that kind of anxiety.<\/p>\n

<\/a>So I’ve told myself for at least a week now that I’m going to cut my feedings down from 5 to 1 when I’m home.\u00a0 Ideally I’d keep the bedtime feeding.\u00a0 I’ve made it down to 3.\u00a0 Things keep happening that make me change my course.\u00a0 When I’m in the moment, I tend to rely on breastfeeding.\u00a0 But then I’m feeding him and he’s not getting much and he bites me, and I resolve to quit.\u00a0 Back and forth and back forth.\u00a0 Maybe I should quit cold turkey? I have conflicting feelings about the guilt of switching to all formula too.\u00a0 Milk is free!\u00a0 Healthier!\u00a0 Formula stinks!\u00a0 It’s expensive!\u00a0 But, I don’t want to keep pumping.\u00a0 Clearly this milk thing has to end SOME day.\u00a0 He can have cow milk soon anyway.\u00a0 Back and forth and back and forth.\u00a0 I just finished Tina Fey’s Bossypants book.\u00a0 The chapter on child raising and her breastfeeding experience is hilarious!\u00a0 Here are some quotes:<\/p>\n

“If you choose not to love your baby enough to breast-feed, you can pump you milk using a breast pump.\u00a0 (This may be easier for the modern mom because it is an expensive appliance and we’re more comfortable with those than with babies.)”<\/p>\n

“If you’ve ever opened a can of infant formula mix, then you know it smells like someone soaked old vitamins in a bucket of wet leaves, then dried them in a hot car.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>“Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.\u00a0\u00a0 Their highest infestation pockets are Brooklyn and Hollywood.”<\/p>\n

(Seriously a fun book.\u00a0 Family, it’s on kindle.\u00a0 Miranda, I was laughing with you through a lot of it.\u00a0 Let’s enjoy a couple more.)<\/p>\n

On making “me time” for new moms “Try to establish that you’re the only one in your family allowed to go to the post office.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>“By nineteen, I had found my look.\u00a0 Oversize T-shirts, bike shorts, and wrestling shoes.\u00a0 To prevent the silhouette from being too baggy, I would cinch it at the waist with a fanny pack.\u00a0\u00a0 I was pretty sure I would wear this look forever. . . I was nailing it on a daily basis.\u00a0 Find something like this for yourself as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n

Here’s Ben and Jack in green and khaki, pretty much nailing it on a daily basis. \u00a0 <\/p>\n

Obviously I’m done talking about breastfeeding.\u00a0 Because all the guys who read my blog probably stopped reading already.<\/p>\n

So can I tell you how upset I am about fashion right now?\u00a0 I have a little spending money and want to get myself some nice, hip clothes so I can stop feeling like a college student.\u00a0 But in Boulder all I saw was this<\/a> and this<\/a> and this<\/a>.\u00a0 Gah!!\u00a0 Are they going to start packaging the laundered BO smell of thrift stores as well?\u00a0 I ended up with a Colorado T shirt from Urban Outfitters.\u00a0 Ben pointed it out to me because he knows I have been looking for this shirt design for about ten years.\u00a0 It made up for the utter trash everywhere else. (But doesn’t help my campaign to stop looking like a college student.)<\/p>\n

I made some chocolate crinkle cookies week.\u00a0 If I hadn’t run out of 2% milk they would already be gone.
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Ben cooks dinner more than I do these days.\u00a0 It’s pretty awesome.\u00a0 Last night I came home to sloppy joes and mashed potatoes with veggies, jalapenos and cheese mixed in.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Amanda and I are planning Jack’s first birthday party.\u00a0 I KNOW.\u00a0 The first year goes so fast.\u00a0 I miss they days when I could cage him in my arms and force him to snuggle.\u00a0 Now he digs his fingers into my eyeballs and I release him quickly. Anyway, the party is turning into quite the craft extravaganza.\u00a0 I hope people come.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The Big Bang Theory is a great show.\u00a0 My family has been telling me this for years and I never “got” it.\u00a0 I wish I could watch them on netflix instant.\u00a0 We might reactive disk service for a month so I can get the other seasons.\u00a0 Maybe in the summer when the TV slows down.\u00a0 Wait! No, the summer means Doctor Who and Burn Notice and SYTYCD!\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 Not enough time in the day for all the chill-axing I want to do.\u00a0 Ben turned me onto a new Fox show, Breaking In.\u00a0 It’s pretty good, which means it will probably be cancelled soon.<\/p>\n

Oh, I wanted to mention that we found Twiglets<\/a> at an import store in Boulder.\u00a0 We bought them for Amanda for sitting, because they are mentioned in Spaced a couple times, so they must be a British thing.\u00a0 Well, four days later the bag is sitting uneaten on our counter (that’s pretty much unheard of for snacks in our house).\u00a0 It turns out they are Marmite flavored.\u00a0 Does anyone want some Marmite chips?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Jack’s new mobility has lead to several head bonks a day.\u00a0 Sunday he gave himself three good ones.\u00a0 Here’s a big one he gave himself with a door.\u00a0 You can’t really tell, but it’s raised and blue and cut.\u00a0 This guy needs to understand that we want his middle name to be IRONIC. <\/p>\n


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And that’s about all I can think of to say right now.\u00a0 Felt like my blog posts were light on text lately.\u00a0 This should buy me a few more straight from the camera posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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