May 16, 2000
The pediatrician warned me there'd be nights like this.

Last night was our first experience of Genevieve the whiny fussypot. She started at 330AM and wouldn't latch on and whined and fussed and crabbed. I think around 530AM she finally decided she'd latch on and snooze. When the alarm went off at 630, Mike and I were comatose.

Of course, last night, we had an adventure in breast pumping again and unlike with Russell, the pump actually stimulated my milk production and wham at 330AM I had huge and painful bazoombas and was wishing that whiny fussy baby would just latch on and end it all for me. I still have the favored left boobie all sore and stiff, but I have to make her nurse the right one or I'll lose the milk in it.

Oh, gosh, I hear pig snorts! Piglet is calling for mother. I hope she's hungry.

Well, it's been an on/off nursing marathon this morning, but I took this iron last night. I was assured that it would be easier on my tummy, and it is, but Ms. G has been pitifully squirming a poopy out all morning and has needed the milk on the one end to push out the stuff on the other.

Mike and I think that making chili would be a better iron option. I'll have to go light on the jalapenos, but the iron in the beans would make it worthwhile. And chili just is a bunch of stuff you put in a pot, so it would be an easy meal that we could eat for several days. The nurse was telling me yesterday how I shouldn't be cooking, but I'd rather not be starving or eating out forever.

Oh, and I ordered a sling last week. God, I forgot how much I love slings!!!! She loves the sling. She gets all wound up in it and snoozes her way through nursings. It's soooo cute!