Good evening I seem to only be finding the time to blog at night. Cause I spend the rest of my day sleeping/nursing
Rob & I finally broke down and went grocery shopping. We hired my sister to come and watch the 4 oldest and Rainee came along in the sling. My husband *gasp* is using the sling this time around. Not sure how that happened hehehe. He swore he hated it last baby.
I did the slow walk around the store and told him what to put into the cart, then took Rainee out to the van and nursed her while he did the unloading/paying and loading back into the van. I survived and then came home and crashed Gotta love sleeping.
We have a plan for next week when Rob goes back to work. My sisters (the young ones still at my mom's home) will take turns coming up and relieving me of my kids so I can crawl away for a nap.
Rainee will be two weeks old tomorrow. Kinda of hard to believe that....seems like I slept most of those 2 weeks away...oh thats right I did sleep most of those 2 weeks away Will take her to her 2 week check-up tomorrow and make sure she's still gaining weight. As she nurses like a champ I'm sure she's fine.
Kaylin is starting to accept Rainee and is stroking her and smiling at her. And I'm getting VERY good at tandem nursing. LOL If you'd told me I'd do that 2 years ago I would have laughed and laughed and laughed at you. Its amazing the things one does for their children to keep them content.
Okay now I'm really laughing Rob is taking Rainee out in the sling to mow the lawn. This should be very entertaining.
Oh in regards to my milk supply. Well its a BIG one I'm currently walking around with my shirt & pants sopping wet do to leakage
Can we say ewwwwwwwwwwwww. I have accumulated so much laundry lately. hehehehe. I'd forgotten the joys of early milk production. Oh and I went up two more cup sizes. (Sorry if I'm embarassing anybody) Did you know there is a I cup? Well ummmm there is. And I'm waiting for mine to come in the mail. In the meantime I'm running around braless which is why my shirts are getting sooooooo soggy. I was wearing my smaller bras but started getting mastitis so that is definitely NOT gonna be repeated. Ok too much information, and I'll move on from here.
Jamari has handled the new baby very well. Which has made me extremely grateful. And I'm also grateful he has such a good bond with Rob as I just haven't had the energy to give him the time and attention he needs. I'm doing good to snuggle with him for 10 minutes a day.
Zeria & Samuel are just adoring Rainee and all in all the kids are adjusting to the newest family member quite well.
We are in the midst of all this in negotiation with Jamari's state of origin in regards to how "open" our adoption will be. His birth mom showed up and is making demands. We don't mind an open adoption, but we WILL be the ones making the rules, as this woman has not done too well in the child-rearing department. We will also not be revealing our phone number or where we live. All letters will be sent to her through our adoption agency who will be sending them to another part of the state so they can get a different postmark on them. They've done this before, and said it works quite well.
Father God, Thank you for carrying me this far. It has been a long road. I ask that you continue to carry me and my family. And give me the strength I need when I need it. In your sons name, Amen