Understanding Coffee.

I drank coffee only a few times a week, not that I didn't want it (I find the taste comforting so I had decaf on days I really wanted it), but because I wanted to make sure the caffeine would work toward migraines. Because I get migraines frequently. So I never understood why people needed to drink coffee on a daily basis. But now I get it. Now that I am sleep deprived on a regular basis - and its looking to stay that way for the unforeseeable future - I have coffee every day. Usually I try to make it to the evening before I have it so I have the energy to make it until bedtime. But sometimes in the morning, I can barely move from the bed to the couch and those days I have two small cups of coffee. I'm slightly worried about dealing with the migraines when they come back however, because I know at some point they will. Until then, coffee every day.

Besides exhaustion, having a new baby means aching nipples (for me). Constantly clogged milk ducts, engorged breasts. There will be another post of this to come. And no - it isn't due to a bad latch or feeding, it has to do with a medical condition.

LO is working on doubling her birth weight by the time she reaches two months. She is currently weighing in at almost 13lbs and she is 7 weeks old. We are about to transition from 3 month clothes to 6 months. She can hold her head up pretty regularly, however she still has a little floppy head. She eats about every 2 hours around the clock still. Better than when it was every one hour by far, but we are still hoping to get her to sleep longer at night. This week we are going to start a bedtime routine for her and hope that helps her recognize when it is time for long stretches of sleep.

Her routine is going to be getting a bath (she just learned to like this last week), new diaper, new outfit, getting warmed up and cuddled. Reading a book (we just went and picked out six for her today: one on space, pokey little puppy, a zombie kid's book, the beast and his friend, you know fun titles. After the book is done, we will change her diaper if necessary, feed her, rock her to sleep and put her to bed at about 9pm. Eventually she will then sleep from 9pm until around 7am every day. She will probably wake up once to feed during that time. Everyone can then get better sleep, DH and I will get an hour or so to ourselves and will get to bed by 11pm instead of 2am when she is finally ready to sleep.

And we are now exclusively cloth diapering. I'll write more on that later as well, it deserves its own post. It may be a little hippy-ish, but I love it.