Lactation woes

As you can tell by the title I'll be talking about milk today. If you
are squeamish or male feel free to sit this one out.

So I set the alarm for 2:30 last night to make sure Mahana would get
up and eat. Yes, insanity, but because she sleeps so long at night, 4+
hours being the norm, I can't seem to keep my supply up. I wanted to
make sure she got up so I'd be sucked on for stimuli. I've had a beast
of a time with producing this time around. I do have my barmaid
moments, but it's not like with the boys. The TWO uterine infections
did not help. Having two crazy(and one aggressive/clingy) little boys,
and a fussy not-sleeping-in-the-day-for-more-than-50min. little girl
is not doing good things to my stress level. Oh and BK fights sleeping
tooth and nail. I'm lucky to get breakfast before 8:30 most days(up
since 6:30). Arrrrrrgh!!!!! Plus I WANT to exercise, but now I'm
afraid to for milk reasons. Exercise makes me feel gooooood. Can you
say stress relief?

Really, I'll be fine. I've got some fenugreek(how do you ingest
powdered, non-capsulated fenugreek?), and grandma will come and stuff
my belly. Mahana will start sleeping in the day again, and BK will
figure out that sleep is a good thing. I just needed to vent or else
worry would cut my production down to nothing. The ped at her 1 month
got me all worried because her weight gain was low(duh! Mommy was sick
twice, how about find that out before you start making assumptions
that something is wrong and freaking me out, thx).

Thanks for letting me vent. Feels better.

Oni doto

Last week was Setsubun aka Japanese spring. Bk found this ogre mask. He keeps saying "oni doto, uchi". He's trying to say oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi.

Mahana

So I wanted to take some pictures of this cutie, which is why her brothers got their turns too. I HATE baby bows and headbands, but I dig the hat. My sister made this one, and since it is 8C in the house, it's important inside. Fortunately we can heat individual rooms, but excursions are chilly. We may get snow today. Pray we do.

Ed happy

Ed wanted his picture of him eating his orange.

Bk peeling

Bk wanted a picture of him peeling a mandarin. One of his many new skills.

BK's turn

He wanted the iPod too, but not for photo fun. He's obsessed with Monkey Preschool Lunchbox.

Pink power

Two of my kids match today, and since Ed wanted to hold Mahana, it was a great photo op. He even has a pretty good posed smile now too!