LO has been right on schedule last night. I waited for her to wake up at 2am for her feed but i dozed off. Sure enough she woke me up at 230am. So i feed her, burp, change nappy, rock her a bit, and she was back to sleep at 0300. What i call 'a good night'.
I've been having problems with my mammary glands and LO's poops. One day I freaked out because i saw that LO's poop was green instead of the nice yellow color we've been getting. At the same time I started having overactive milk boobs...yes the kind that can extinguish a city on fire. They engorge so hard that I soak everything during letdown, especially LO when she doesnt latch properly right off the bat during feeding. It's a crazy, sticky mess!!!
Hubby thinks the green poops are from too much iron, but I dunno. At first I was thinking maybe it is my increased fresh milk consumption. My MIL sent home with us like a gallon and a half of fresh milk with a 'best by' date of the 1st week of March. Well it's the first week of March already and i would hate to see all that milk spoil, so I've been drinking loads of milk. Plus I missed drinking fresh milk during the time I had gestational diabetes (don't worry almond milk i still love you most!) Can drinking too much milk give you too much iron? I dunno.
But I've been pumping. I was pumping to relieve myself of the engorgement, and so that LO will have bottles ready to drink during the morning when I'm more dead asleep than the zombies in The Walking Dead. Dead exhausted to the point where I can't hear LO crying. My hubby Says what kind of mother I am for not waking up to my baby's cries. Many times I want to talk back and say 'I am a dead exhausted kind of mother, and stop being such an asshole.' but I dont have that energy. So i just tell him to give LO a bottle from the fridge.
Well the problem, I guess, is when you pump, you can start having an oversupply, which causes having an imbalance of foremilk/hindmilk intake on the baby when you feed, which causes baby to drink more foremilk and get fussy and gassy and have green explosive poops. I've pumped so much last week just to relieve my boobs, i used all my storage containers and within a week the fridge stash looks like it hasnt been used. So I froze some of them. I want to start building my freezer stash of breastmilk for when i go back to work, and this would be like a great time to do that, but then LO started having green poops. And she started choking on my milk during letdown, she gets more fussy, and gassy, spits out more, farts like a grown man. And I read having too much foremilk makes babies gain more weight rapidly.
So i stopped pumping today. I pumped yesterday just because i couldnt take it anymore. My boobs felt like rocks. How to go ahead with the pumping and freezer stash, I guess I'll figure out after LO stops getting the green poops.
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