Month two
After 5 long, painful weeks Sam finally seems to have adjusted to his baby brother. The last few days he’s been an absolute pleasure again and we’re enjoying our sweet boy again. All of his unsavory behaviors have slowed if not stopped entirely. I no longer fear for Ben’s safety when Sam comes over to give him a kiss.
Breastfeeding has become almost easy. The excruciating pain of Ben latching on stopped sometime after the mastitis got better. I still produce a great deal of milk; when I pump, which is rare, I’m able to pump 4 or 5 ounces in about 10 minutes using my Medela Harmony manual pump. But I’m no longer painfully engorged all of the time. When Ben’s nursing on one side I still leak like crazy on the other, but it’s nothing like it was just a few weeks ago.
Ben doesn’t seem to mind taking bottles. He’s had a few with no ill effects and doesn’t seem to care that the milk’s not coming directly from the source. He also seems to like a pacifier. I don’t really give it to him, but Bob does when I’m not around and it does the trick.
Poop, one of those things parents (especially mothers) find themselves talking about entirely too often, is something else I should mention. After pooping a dozen times a day, Ben’s system has finally slowed down. He’s now pooping in greater volume just once or twice a day. I am thrilled that cloth diapers contain the runny breastmilk poo much better than disposable diapers. When Sam was a baby I had to change his entire outfit just about every time he pooped since it would inevitably shoot all the way up his back to his neck. With cloth we haven’t had a single blowout.
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