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A little over 2 weeks since she’s been born and this is starting to feel like the new normal – and that is such a great feeling. This is our life now, we’re settling in to a routine (well, sort of – it’s not much of a routine, lol), we’re getting used to this living with a baby. Our baby.<\/p>\n

We get up whenever we get up – sometimes it’s at 8am, sometimes it’s not until 11am, depends how well she slept that night. She’s waking every 3 hours or so, I have to feed her and sometimes we have to change her – I’ve been letting Den deal with the dipes so I can catch another few minutes of sleep, considering he can sleep while I feed. Den is spending a good deal of time doing work around the house and yard, all the things that he’s been meaning to do but hasn’t gotten around to. It’s nice because he’s right there if I need an extra hand. He gets things done, then spends the rest of the day with Kate and I.<\/p>\n

The breastfeeding is still hurting like a bitch. I knew it might be hard, but holy hell I did not expect it to be this rough on my nipples. Friends tell me that they’ll get used to it very soon and it’ll stop hurting – I’m really looking forward to that day. Thankfully the blisters are gone, they’re just really raw and sensitive. Usually it’s not bad during the day, but when she starts cluster-feeding and nursing to soothe for 2 solid hours in the evening, well, then I just want to rip my boobs off my body for a little while. But I know Kate is eating well, getting lots of milk, she’s happy… that’s the important part.<\/p>\n

We’re slowly figuring out that her fussiness in the evening is gas – and when she’s fussy she wants the boob. I’m trying to make sure to burp her really well during and after she eats, and that seems to be helping. She sure gives some good burps. I’m also trying to keep her upright when I can, like letting her sleep on my chest or in a tummy-to-tummy hold in the ringsling. Kate does love her swing but she prefers to be snuggled up to one of us, which honestly is just fine with us, we just love cuddling with her while she sleeps so peacefully. I love to nuzzle and kiss her sweet little head as I rock in the rocking chair.<\/p>\n

I watch a lot of HGTV while laying back in the rocking chair with Kate nestled against me. I don’t get a whole lot done in the day, but you know I really don’t care. This is the best way to spend my days.<\/p>\n

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A little over 2 weeks since she’s been born and this is starting to feel like the new normal – and that is such a great feeling. This is our life now, we’re settling in to a routine (well, sort of – it’s not much of a routine, lol), we’re getting used to this living […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3006,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions\/3006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}