Being Momma G: Day 11

I don't know what I'd do without my darling Jonathan.

Jonathan was the one who got up at 3am to feed our little milk monster. I was so beyond tired that I don't think I stirred much when Sean woke up wanting a feed. I have no idea how the feed went - Jonathan told me later that Sean fed well and went straight back to sleep. As I all but slept through the 3am feed, it was only fair that I got up and fed Sean at 6am.

We tried breast feeding, which worked for a little while, but as Sean wasn't use to having to work for his breakfast, he needed extra time to get what he needed. After he was fed, both Jonathan and I crashed out for a nap on the couches while Sean was asleep. People say "sleep when the baby sleeps", and we did exactly that.

We had arranged the home visit with a child health nurse from West Ryde Early Childhood Health Centre at 12.30pm. An hour before the nurse was due to arrive, Sean woke for his lunch time feed, and again, it was a bit of a struggle to feed him as he was getting use to breast feeding again.

When the nurse Saw Bee arrived, we were almost finished with feeding, so she set about reviewing Sean when we were finished. Saw Bee measured and weighed Sean and checked him all over. Unfortunately, this all proved to be too much excitement for the little man, and when Saw Bee was ready to leave at 2.30pm, Sean was completely over stimulated and beyond overtired. It took Jonathan and me hours to settle him afterwards.

The rest of the day was spent trying to settle the little man, whose sleep pattern was erratic at best. We fed him, cuddled him, rocked him, fed him some more. Because everyone was tired, Sean and I weren't doing so well with breast feeding on the left side, so it was back to expressing and feeding him expressed milk for the time being. We'll try again with the breast feeding in the morning.