4 weeks and still here

I finally got out the breast pump today and pumped a whole 1.5 ounces! Hopefully I'll get better at it and my husband can take a feeding now and then. It's hard to find time to do it when I'm feeding him all the time. I could have pumped more, but I had to stop and take care of the baby.

All the days seem to run together and even though I don't leave the house during the day and I don't really get anything done, I'm so busy. Quentin doesn't like to nap in his bed. He'll fall asleep and I'll put him down where he'll sleep for 5-10 minutes before waking up again. The only way I can get him to sleep is holding him.

I bought a Moby Wrap off of Craig's List so I can get somethings done. I still need to master getting it tight enough as he keeps slipping down, but he falls asleep and will stay asleep as long as I have him in it. I highly recommend checking out Craig's List if you want to buy a wrap. I found mine for $10 and it's brand new. The woman only tried it out a couple times. Of course it's orange, which isn't a color I would have chosen myself, but it helps me break out of my black funk and it reminds me of the robes Buddhist Monks wear.

Quentin has been sleeping pretty well. I've been trying to get him on a schedule, but have found that it's much more difficult to get myself on the schedule than him. I have a schedule that I received from a sleep workshop we went to awhile back, but your supposed to start getting them ready for bed at 5 PM and my husband isn't even home by then and he wants to be able to hold him and we need to eat dinner.

He always falls asleep at about 7:30 PM and we try and get him ready at about 9 PM. We sometimes slack at this but doesn't seem to matter much when we wake him up and put him back to sleep. He has been sleeping for about four hours after I put him to bed and then he'll wake up again about 2-3 hours later. According to the schedule I should have him get up at 7:00 AM, but I usually put him back to bed so I can sleep for a couple more hours.

A few nights Q has decided to pull an all nighter. He gets gassy occasionally and we pay for it as he wants to eat all night. He did this Sunday night and it messed up my milk supply. I finally had it about under control and now it's crazy full again. I'm worried about pumping maintaining the oversupply, but I plan on continuing to do it daily so it should be okay.

Today we had a couple wardrobe changes.  First he peed on  his clothes and then he puked all over this new outfit.  He also puked all over me, the couch, and the Boppy pillow.  Luckily I snapped a few pictures of his cute outfit before he threw up all over it.

I'm slowly, but surely getting the hang of this mothering thing.  It's super tiring.  I've read some blogs where new mothers say they are "loving every minute" of parenting.  I can't say that I love EVERY minute of it.  I love my baby every minute, but there many minutes that I don't love, most of them occur at night when I wish I were sleeping.  I REALLY miss sleep, although it's getting better.  It helps that my baby so cute and is such a sweet little guy (especially when he's well fed).