Hello and welcome to my foggy, absent-minded postpartum writings! Today is day 87 that I first set eyes on our precious little girl Sariah... and in a way it seems like it has been one big giant day filled with breastfeeding, poopy diapers, bouncing on the yoga ball and endless colicky screaming. They say the crying-for-no-reason stops around 3-4 months and I am hopeful as I can already see an improvement. When I think back to the beginning of this "day" (or around 70 days ago) I can almost remember her crying much longer than she does now.
Anyways, looking forward, I have 16 days left of my maternity leave and I plan to relish every single one of them. Going back to work has been a big huge dread of mine- I can barely leave her for a couple of hours let alone 12.... but I am so very thankful that Mark, the hubs, can stay home with her.
Getting back to the crying-for-no reason, I must add that the anti-acid reflux medicine seems to have made an improvement! That makes me happy yet sad at the same time- sad that I thought it was that for so long and was not listened to by the doctors we saw. Would things have been better the last few months had we started the medicine so long ago? We will never know. It is just another reminder of how much growth I still have in the area of being assertive and not allowing myself to be bullied or talked down to. Sigh.
On a happier note, we have finally started to use the cloth diapers! Now that I can pull myself away for 10 seconds to actually do the laundry! I am thinking for our road trip down south at the end of the month we will use our stash of disposables.... but other than that, we will decorate her bum with cloth! Yay!