I just made an amazing breakfast. I am a breakfast feen. If I could only have breakfast for the
rest of time. I just made myself two eggs over medium and two gluten-free waffles from vans and
Milo's asleep. He's been napping since about nine a.m., I think. Now it's like
9: 35 or 9 :45 so I don't have that much time before the kid wakes up.
I'm going to clean up the kitchen. Today is one of those days when I have a mommy
and me group during his next feed so my plan is to clean up this kitchen
and then also pack up and get some stuff ready for his next feed including some sticks
that they can eat at six months plus, and he's now almost eight months. Also, I have to pump before
we go. I will give you a nursing update. I do have some nursing updates but I'm going to pump,
I'm going to try to clean up a little and then maybe sit down and chat with you.
Michael made us coffee this morning and he left these grounds.
There's a weight under the sink that gets sucked up and then gets stuck in the wires
so so every time I pull this down to clean the sink it gets stuck like this
and I can go under the sink and do this.
All fixed. I also slammed my knee before, I don't know if you saw.
But ow. This is the only spot in my apartment that gets sunlight like this. This one spot in
the kitchen, and while it's here I like to bask in it so I'm setting my camera up right here
and we're going to chat right here. One update that I haven't shared yet on either instagram
or youtube is that I dropped one of my nursing sessions with Milo and we replaced that with
formula. Just a little recap of where we were at schedule wise, so since Milo was eight weeks
old he's been eating four times a day. So, the schedule we're on right now is like 7 am, 11 am,
3 pm, and then 6 pm before he goes to bed at 7. Okay, it is very bright, it is a little
hard to focus, and then over the past I would say a couple months I've been pumping myself
one more time after those four feeds so then myself usually around 9:30 p.m I will pump
before I go to bed, and then I'm now able to sleep through the night until 7am when I wake up
to feed him again. I did get mastitis recently. I actually didn't document it over here. I was
posting a little bit about it on Instagram, but essentially what happened was I woke up
one morning, I had like a lump inside of my boob. It was really painful. I immediately tried to pump
and some milk was coming out but it was still just really tender and painful so I spent, oh
I did this, I immediately took some of this stuff which is supposed to clear up clogged ducts. It is
not delicious. I have done this before when I thought I was getting mastitis and it actually
helped, so I tried it this time. It didn't help. I also got into the shower, I was brushing it
with a dry brush, I was using heating pads, I was just trying to pump a lot. I had to take
Tylenol for the fever that was coming on and for the pain. Basically it didn't clear it up. I went
back to sleep and then when I actually woke up for the morning I was still in pain and it was just
really a bad day. We ended up going that day to look at a house in the suburbs so we drove out of
the city and when we came back like the drive back was horrific for me. Pounding headache, in and out
of a fever. I ended up calling my doctor. I got antibiotics, got rid of mastitis. My supply kind
of dipped a little and I was sort of like I have a choice right now. I can either make an active
concerted effort to start power pumping and get my supply back and make sure that I build up my
supply, or I can use this as kind of the beginning point of a slow weaning journey. I've been saying
that I want to try to nurse milo until a year. It's kind of just been like an arbitrary decision
I've made. A lot of it does have to do with Covid and me giving him my Covid antibodies in the milk.
Some of it has to do with just nutrition. If my supply just disappeared I would immediately stop
and transfer him to formula. He actually takes really well to formula. He's eaten any formula
we've given him without any problems so that's kind of what i'm working towards, and phase one
of that was cutting out one of those nursing sessions. So, I cut out the third one. I still
nurse him at seven. I nurse him at eleven but then at three I don't nurse him. I give him formula and
I nurse him again at night. I'm hoping this is all making sense for people who are nursing or like
understanding these schedules. I don't think any part of Milo nursing is comfort nursing. I
genuinely think because we had a night nurse here who was giving him bottles from the start, I think
he just eats for hunger. He loves bottles. He loves the boob. But he never like seems like
he's saying Mama I want to nurse at night. I don't nurse him for comfort. I don't nurse him
in the middle of the night. I don't nurse him before bed. If I offer him the boob as a source
of food it's like he purely wants it for food and honestly he gets frustrated once the milk
is not like flowing out fast anymore. He gets frustrated and he would prefer the bottle. So
I'm not scared to stop nursing for his sake. It's just like I'm trying to get to this year point,
and I kind of decided that instead of doing like a cold turkey stopping to nurse whenever I'm done
that I want to do like a slow and steady phase out and I ideally want to get to this point where
I'm able to produce milk for him for morning and night but that all day I'm not pumping or nursing
and we're just giving him formula during the day. And that I can also sleep myself
at night and don't have to pump myself after he goes to bed. I just like to keep you guys,
oh my god I was gonna make the best pun, I'm going to say it but now I ruined the fun.
I just like to keep you guys abreast of my nursing journey. I'm losing it. I am going
to drink my coffee and enjoy this sunlight and I'll see you later getting ready for the park
Recently I've been putting his probiotic and vitamin D drops into the bottle because he's
stopped being interested in having it off of the spoon. Five drops.
Throw this in the fridge for a little.
Starting right here.
Ready.
My 30th birthday is coming up and I really don't think I've ever purchased a birthday gift for
myself there is something that i want but it's kind of a business purchase it's a new camera
in the history of my video content career I've only used two cameras so I first used the canon
G7x which is like a starter vlogger camera. It's a very small camera. It's one of those like they
call it a point-and-shoot camera so you just turn it on and shoot and it auto-adjusts the focus it
auto-adjusts the brightness. It's honestly a really good vlog camera for new vloggers.
Oh I have a cramp. Do you ever just get like a stitch in your side like you're a marathon runner
but you're standing still doing nothing? The camera I have now is called the Canon EOS
m50. I have the white body and it has detachable lenses so you can put on different lenses to get
different styles. I like the camera. The thing is it doesn't have the visual style that I love, and
there are a few Youtubers out there whose content I personally gravitate towards, and I think a big
reason that I gravitate towards it is the look of the footage. I'm curious do you care at all what
the footage looks like that you watch on youtube? Because I'm filming this right now on my iphone
and I feel like sometimes I just head to my iphone because it's easy, it's fast. Honestly sometimes
it's clearer than other footage. I'm filming this on the front-facing camera so it's honestly the
worst of the two cameras on the iphone, but i just feel like it's easy to do. I'm in the kitchen,
I was already with my phone so it's easy to just pop this up and set it up and it makes me feel
more content because I don't have to worry about setting up a tripod and charging a battery and I
don't know, I want to buy this other camera. I've had my eye on it for a while and I'm convinced
that it will make me more excited to film. But I don't know, I've just been feeling like I want to
show up more vlog style and maybe I'll be more inspired to do so if I have the camera of my
dreams. So for my 30th birthday I'm considering it. So let me know if you think I should get it!
What are you smiling at?
Videos
Happy birthday!
Is this avocado toast, my friend. One two three.