So much milk!

Cutting down on breastfeeding is making me realise just how much milk I was producing! I'm now down to two expressings during the day (used to be four) plus the 10pm and 6am feeds. The girls are doing fine on the formula.

All four of us just had a little outing to Northland shopping centre, where lots of other shoppers giggled at our babies. I don't know why twins make people laugh. It seems to be laughing with not at.

Trudi has a cold and I had food poisoning. I have never been ill so often as of late! Maybe it's the lack of sleep.

Speaking of which... the girls have been sleeping well during the night. However, Hazel still wants to start her day at 4.30 am. This morning she sort of napped from then until 5.15 am, then she was up and excited about it. I patted and shushed her until 6 am, then I fed her. Then we started our day.

THEORETICALLY if I do this for long enough she will get the message that the day does not start until 6 am. HOW LONG WILL THIS TAKE!

Giving up slowly

Talked to my LC this morning, and I have just started on my journey away from breastfeeding. After the girls had their morning feed I expressed as usual. But after their next feed I did not. Will continue NOT expressing after their second feed for a few days. Once that feels comfortable (it doesn't right now) I will pick another feed to NOT express after. And so on.

Wish me luck.

Thinking of Giving Up Breastfeeding

I express and give that in a bottle during the day, and sometimes I use formula if there's not enough expressed, plus I breastfeed for the 10pm and the 6am feeds.

It's taking so much time do do all three methods! Feels like the worst of all worlds.

I've been feeling less and less keen on breastfeeding, and the other day I read this (very provocative) article:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200904/case-against-breastfeeding

I linked to this in a previous post as well. It totally sums up how I feel.

Right now I also have a cold and a bad back so I am grumpy. Trudi and I will decide together about the breastfeeding once I am no longer grumpy. I don't want to regret it later...

Kylie is visiting.

Better go.

Trudi made biscuits for the first time yesterday. They have CHOCOLATE CHIPS.

Sleep (again)

It's going pretty well. I've just started doing a rollover feed at 10pm instead of midnight. I go to bed at 8 so I set my alarm. My goodness what a party animal I am.

I did this for the last two nights. Both times Hazel woke around 5am, but I resettled her and I fed them after 6am. Luxurious.

During the night I heard an occasional quiet squeak, but whoever it was went back to sleep without any help. Niiiice.

My sleep is still crap though. Right now I have a terrible sore throat and a tickly dry cough. Off to the doctor today to see if it's tonsillitis. Kind of hope it is = at least that is treatable.

In other news, my Dad has been retrenched. Tough economic times etc. He has a few irons in the job-fire, so they aren't too concerned. Mum has asked for her job back though, just in case. I think that is called un-re-retiring.

Here is a photo of Hazel "sitting" in the corner of the couch:



In other other news, I just read a colleague's blog, and she included a link to this provocative article about breastfeeding. I am guilty of thinking of breastmilk as a magical elixir. And I am guilty of feeling guilty when I feed the girls formula (my supply is always ALMOST enough for them. They keep on increasing their intakes!).

Teeth?

Soon, I think. Both Ivy and Hazel have started gnawing on stuff a lot more. Ivy is really keen on chewing on my finger covered with the rough cloth of a flannel bib. Hazel likes the teething toy that Trudi got for them.

Ivy has some white shapes in her lower gums. It looks like her fangs will be coming through first. Can't see the top gums. Haven't seen much in Hazel's mouth yet.

In other news, I've had a sore throat for nearly a week, and it's finally turning into a proper cold. I think Trudi and Ivy have it too. Hope Hazel stays clear.

Trudi and I are getting booster vaccinations against pertussis (whooping cough) tomorrow. The girls have that their first two of the three shots against it, so they aren't fully immune yet. There's a lot of whooping cough cases in Melbourne at the moment, so we thought it would be a good idea to get the jabs.

Amir and Alex are visiting

Here they are! Amir is thinking about setting up his own blog. Turns out that Wordpress is waaaay too hard to set up. He might try Blogger instead... :-)