I haven’t pumped in going-on 3 days now! I have fully weaned….

It feels good.

I can now start a major diet after the Holidays (yeah, can’t do it now). I have once again put-on a couple pounds…kids have ruined me Oh well, can’t complain too much.

Thursday 11.29.07 will be my last pump. I am weaning. And it is a good, but oddly sad feeling.
I made it 8 months and still have about 2 months worth of frozen breastmilk to give him if combined with formula. I am proud of that.

Thanksgiving dinner was very nice this year. Next year I think I will do my own though. I have this idea in my head that I need to start traditions with the kids…things they will remember…I dunno though, Becky’s Thanksgiving dinner is excellent..I don’t think I could do that good a job.

Friday Ricky got up early to do some Black Friday shopping. They opened a new Sper-Walmart right near our house (which is fantastic by-the-way!) so he went there. They had nothing left! Apparently most good deals were gone at 5AM when the doors opened.

Saturday Crit and Ricky attempted to chop a large Red Maple in our backyard down.
We had got some estimates from tree removal guys that had ranged from $300-$600 to remove it! No way, Crit and Ricky can do it…..
So they spent a good 5 hours out there Saturday….chopped off a few branches, but decided the rope wasn’t good enough to pull the tree in the direction it needed to go (which was away from our house) so they gave-up and said they would finish it Sunday.
They did manage it Sunday…I was happily surprised. As it came down Ricky was pulling on the rope to keep it away from the house and Crit was shaking with nerves! It was a pretty funny sight.
Our yard looks much better now and there will be less leaves in our gutters!
Thanks Crit

Kyne is finally getting over his cold. His cough is still hanging about at nearly 3 weeks, but it is much better.
I am really hoping my interview for subsidized daycare goes well, because bringing him to work is getting old!

Nov 20th 2007

Well Kyne is still sick….counting today that’s 11 days……I feel so bad for him. His top front tooth is coming in also, so I think that makes him feel worse. It’s just about poked through now, so I hope he starts to feel better soon. He’s been waking in the early hours crying for his pacifier….usually he’s a 12 hours-straight-through kid, so this interrupted sleep isn’t going well for any of us!

Once again Ricky was working the weekend……he got a new position at work (I am so proud of him!) and is now at a different complex. Hopefully that was the last weekend for awhile though. Thursday we went out and brought a new king-size bed! It was delivered on Friday and is amazing. It is very big though, takes up most of our room……but well worth every penny! My mum gave us the money to get it for Christmas, so that was nice.

Thanksgiving is coming up this Thursday…..we are all going to Becky’s house to celebrate. I am making a sweet corn casserole. Her mom has a heated pool so we will probably go swimming also.

Tomorrow I am off work and have a follow-up appt with my Dr. I am doing well on the Zoloft, other than the insomnia.
I got a script for birth control pills last weekend too. I can’t start them until I either wean from breast-feeding or start my period (whichever comes first).
I haven’t had a period yet….but I do plan to wean within a few weeks.
About weaning: I am now only pumping 1x a day! I dropped my morning pump on Friday.

I’m scared to give-up my morning pump.
I know I just need to do it, to get it over with, but still every morning I set the alarm and get right up to pump.
This morning I only got 5oz TOTAL out of both breasts combined. That is seriously low for me. The evening before was only 8oz total. I think my body is saying it is done and I need to wean…but obviously a part of me still can’t quite do it.

I stopped taking my Rx for milk production and I know that is why my supply has dwindled to nothing…..I could just start taking it again and keep on pumping twice a day until Kyne is a year old….but I honestly do not want to. I want my body back! I want to really get serious about dieting and I want to not have to waste my time attached to the pump. I want to get up in the mornings and not rush around because I had to spend 40 minutes sitting on the couch.

I think I will give up my morning pump this weekend.

We shall see…….

November 7th 2007

Well I can’t seem to get Ecto to work and I can’t download Windows Live for some reason, so I am blogging here and then will add it at a later date.

This weekend Ricky worked some overtime, so instead of having his weekend off he has been working straight through…..making it 14 days of straight-through work! No days off……poor thing. He has to work this weekend also…..what a bummer. But it was at a different complex so that was good.

Kyne has been a little fussy this week so far. I am thinking more teeth, but I can’t really see anything…..he hates me opening his mouth to try and look.
He is still lunging forward from the sitting position…..starting to get up on all fours but not often. I am content with my non-mobile baby!

Since the time change Ricky gets home earlier from work, so we’ve been having more family-time which I love! We eat dinner earlier and then all hang out playing for bit before baths and showers are given.
Once the little ones are in bed Talon does his nightly reading while I pump…..it works out great.

About the pumping; I still plan to quit Nov 29, and that seems so soon!
I took the first step towards that this weekend by giving Kyne some formula….for the first time since he was 1 week old! I started off doing 1oz of formula with 3.5oz of breast milk. He did fine and drank it all down. I did make the mistake of upping the formula for his next feed, and he didn’t want that one.
So I have kept adding 1oz to a couple bottles a day so he gets used to it.
I still have a good month’s worth of milk frozen, but combined with some formula there is probably 2 months worth….and I am leaning towards doing a combo of both so he still gets the benefits of the breast milk for longer.
I am contemplating cutting out 1 more pump very soon and only pumping in the evening. I am thinking my supply will totally dwindle if I do this, so I haven’t completely decided to go for it or just wait till the 29th.

So I’m looking into getting life insurance…good idea? Mostly on Ricky, but I spose I should have some too.

It seems like a reasonable price, plus there is one plan where you get the premiums back at the end of the term….is that not a win-win situation…..kinda like a savings account?

Our Halloween was pretty awesome this year….a nice group of us went, and the kids had so much fun.

I will upload some pics when I figure out why Ecto isn’t working.

PS: I LOVE MY HUSBAND!