One week

Posted on | June 15, 2007 8 Comments | e-mail | print

Hey! Just like that annoying Barenaked Ladies song I’ve got stuck in my head!

So Cormac is one week old today. We’re doing pretty well as a family of four. My blogging time is about negative a hundred minutes a day, meaning I have a deficit of nerdery going on here, and also a deficit of sleep, and that’s why this sentence is not making any sense.

So, without further ado OR further, uh, confusingness, a brief bulleted list of highlights. And lowlights. And you know what? This is reminding me that I really need a haircut.

• Nursing! Is working! This deserves it’s own post because I am OMFG so excited about this. I mean, there are bloodstains on my washable nursing pads from when I tried with Owen, if that gives you any indication of the utter lack of success I had last time. This time? OK, it’s not “fun” or “comfortable” exactly but it also finally doesn’t hurt or make me cry or want to die or run away. He eats and I think — I certainly hope — that he is growing. So I’m psyched.
• Best postpartum recovery ever. I can’t like run a marathon or anything but I am feeling very good. No stitches. A prescription for Percoset. No more pregnant belly. I can sleep like a log. Things are good in the My Body arena.
• Um. We have fish? I had forgotten. There are three left. Their names are Not Dead Yet, Still Alive, and That Other One.
• Iain totally and completely rocks the house as a dad.
• Owen, for the most part, is a totally awesome big brother. He likes to touch the baby’s feet and is actually quite possessive at times: “DON’T TOUCH my BABY,” he will tell me. Quite bossily, if you can’t tell. But at other times you can tell he’s not really liking things. This morning he came into our bed at about 6:30. Mac was in there sleeping next to me. I was trying to nurse him laying down which was a big stupid mistake (things do not line up well in that position) and Owen was thrashing around. Eventually he turned sideways in the bed, looked me straight in the eye and put his feet on the baby’s head. I don’t know why except that he very much was rather sick of the whole thing at that point. I don’t blame him, the little dude. I was the oldest child, too; I know what it’s like to be pushed out of the limelight by a new sibling. Hopefully he doesn’t try to knock this one off a great height — literally — as I did with my sister. Sorry, Em!
• Sleep. I am getting a little. Mac nurses every couple hours from 6 or 7 a.m. until about 5 or 6 p.m. Then it’s every hour until midnight. Then a three or four hour break, til about 3:30 a.m., then up again at 6 or 7. I usually get one nap, but all that broken sleep — whew. I forgot how torturous that is. And also, that the majority of the time Owen is home and awake I am stuck in the recliner with a baby on my tit. Poor Owen.
• Also. Today is his last day of school. Daycare. Whatever. His last day ever, due to money reasons and the new work schedule I will have when I go back. I am glad I am not allowed to drive yet and therefore not the one picking him up or dropping him off because I would be a wet sobbing mess of emotion. So much heartache and joy went into that, me bringing him to school, him learning new things from new people, making friends, socializing. OK. Seriously. Crying now. I’m glad to have him home with me now but I will miss him having “school” to go to.

OK. That’s about all I have time for. Also, the Cosby Show comes on at 1 o’clock. Also, I’m still hungry. Also, Baby Mac will be waking up soon.

If I don’t post again for another week you’ll know why: My hands will be completely full.

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