Silly Mommy, I feed myself!

Yorlee is a pro at eating rice cereal now.  We just bought some oatmeal for her to try, and she will get homemade sweet potatoes shortly.  She already tried homemade sweet peas and loved them!

What a big girl! :-)

The Adventures in Sleep Training (Pt. 3)

Well....  Yorlee is still sleeping in the bed with me most nights.  Sometimes, she sleeps in her swing, and occasionally will nap in her crib.  Once she figures out that she's alone, the waterworks begin and she has a tantrum.  We're going to keep working in it.

I tried the advice that some of you gave me.  Lalla, I put her down when she started to show that she was tired.  It was 7PM.  She went out like a light, I was so excited!!  Then she woke back up at 8:30PM, I nursed her and she fell asleep with me.  She woke again at midnight, and stayed up til 4AM!!!  I couldn't believe it.  In between that time I rocked her, kissed her, sang to her, bounced her, nursed her, etc.  I was trying everything I could think of to get her down.  She finally went to sleep at 4:20(ish)PM.  And I had to get up for the day at 5AM.  Needless to say, I drank a ton of coffee that day.  Keri, I had my husband put her down and it worked a few times.  She doesn't stay sleep for long though.

She's been on more solids lately.  I give her rice cereal everyday, she loves it!  She tries to slurp it off the spoon, and grabs the spoon when I'm trying to clean her face with it.  It cracks me up.  My husband made her some homemade peas.  She ate them up!  I was surprised because neither of us like them.  But she gobbled them down.

That's all I can think of for now.  I'll post again soon!

A new day

Have you ever been feeling really down, and had someone say just the right thing to you and make you realize that things aren't as bad as they seem?  That happened to me yesterday.  Lalla from Expect the Unexpected commented on my post from yesterday and everything she said struck a chord with me.

After having an immense amount of guilt for giving Yorlee formula, the realization hit me that I wasn't being fair to myself.  Putting so much pressure on myself to EXCLUSIVELY give her breast milk was stressing me out and nearly making me ill.

Lalla stated that she only pumps at work, and enjoys her time and home with her (GORGEOUS) daughter.  I was pumping at work, pumping at home, pumping in the middle of the night, etc.  Not only was I starting to wear myself out, but Yorlee was also getting frustrated.  Yesterday after I pumped, she started rooting, so I placed her on the breast and she SCREAMED!!!  She was so mad at me because I had pumped all of her milk out.  I ended up having to give her the milk I had just pumped in a bottle, and before I could do that, I had to calm her down.  That's when reality hit me.  I'm trying to do too much.  And I was feeling like a failure as a mom at the same time.  So from this day forward, I'll pump at work, and spend quality time with my daughter when I'm at home.  If I don't pump the full 20 ounces that she drinks a day, we'll supplement with formula.  Also, I'm going to start giving her a bit of rice cereal in the evenings.  She had her first taste of it yesterday and absolutely loved it!  On top of it all, she slept from 9PM until 4:30AM on her own, and in another room!!  I was so surprised!

Pictures to come soon....