[1 week] Growing

I think Miss Adelaide is having her first serious growth spurt. We finished our last nursing around 1:30 last night, I went to sleep, and when she woke me up pawing at my boob my first thought was that there was light outside…it was 6:30! She nursed for about 45 minutes and then we went back to sleep until my alarm went off at 9:30. She pretty much slept all morning, I put her in the moby and was able to do a load of laundry, get ready to go, get all of her stuff ready for her to go, eat some yogurt, and do a couple of other things…it was more stuff than I’ve been able to do at one time in nine days!

We had to go to an interview thing for Jonathan’s unemployment (well, he had to go, I went along), and she slept for the first half hour we were there, made a couple of squeaks so I nursed her for maybe 5 minutes and she popped off and put her face down on my chest and slept for the next thirty minutes until we left…then slept through the drive to a restaurant, and most of lunch. Then we came home, she got a quick bath thanks to a very messy diaper, and her and I laid down, nursed for a while (at this point I made her stay awake long enough to make my engorgement go away a bit), and we took a two hour nap.

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Adelaide isn’t very fussy and doesn’t cry very much, but she is definitely a newborn that needs to be held/nursing constantly. I have to remind myself sometimes that this is a short phase and it won’t be like this forever and that it’s completely normal. Most of the time, I wouldn’t expect anything different- she’s been inside of me for over 9 months, and been out in the world for 9 days. Of course she’s going to need my touch most of the time. It just gets hard sometimes when I’d really like to just take a bath or make a proper meal, or brush my hair. Jonathan is good at comforting her but he can only do so much when all she wants is her milkies.

I miss sex. Or really, I miss intimacy, because the idea of anything going within 50 feet of my vagina right now still kind of makes me want to scream. But I just miss being intimate, I finally got her to sleep earlier and went and made out with Jonathan for the 5 minutes she stayed asleep without me being there, lol. It was nice.

Man, I am really exhausted tonight. I think her growth spurt is taking something out of me, too.

She’s in cloth pretty much full time now. I love her big diaper bum. I’m going to start taking notes on diapers- which ones are very absorbent, which ones get poop all up her back and down her legs and all over her sleeper and on our bed (that was fun). I’ll need to keep notes simply because she has so many different types it’s hard to keep track of them all, but I want to start selling some of the ones we don’t like to get more of the ones we do. The newborn ones we really like I’ll save for the next wee one. Right now my favorites seem to be here GMD prefolds and some random fitteds called Rearz that I got on a whim from one of those daily deal sites. They’re amazingly soft, fit her better than any other newborn diaper, and are great at containing messes.

Ok, I’ve just gone on forever about my kid’s sleep habits and poop, but that’s pretty much my life right now. I have to go in to work tomorrow, one of my employees is sick and had to go to the hospital, and she was scheduled to open, so I have to go handle things for a couple of hours. I’m nervous but hopefully it goes well and Adelaide mostly just sleeps. I need to be up early though so I should get some sleep myself.