I won't bore you all with the details, but I have been struggling with clog milk ducts and mastitis for a few weeks now. I also had a drop in my milk supply and had to supplement with formula last weekend. For all these reasons, I have decided to quite breastfeeding. It was a very hard decision that took me a couple of weeks to finalize. I hate to give up so early and to deprive my baby of what I know is the perfect food for her, but I need to do what is best for our whole family. Everyone suffers when I am fighting illness all the time. I have had so much pain associated with these issues that breastfeeding has never been easy or enjoyable. Also, Elsie being a fussy baby has made her much harder to nurse. She does great with a bottle and is very happy with it. I am slowly decreasing the amount of times I pump and we are feeding her either formula or expressed breast milk. I am thankful we have some extra Vicodin around, it has helped A LOT with the pain. I hope to be completely done soon.
We have noticed a change in Elsie this week. She is still fussy at times but she has calmed down a lot. Yeah! We feel it will only get better from here. It is SO nice that she is not totally depended on me now. I can get more help from Craig and do more things outside of the house for my own sanity. Craig took baby duty all night on Saturday night! It was great! I woke up needing to pump but got a solid six hours of sleep. Woo-hoo! We are enjoying our long weekend together. We had a great time the Tillman's on Saturday afternoon, and we had some new friends over for dinner last night. A guy who recently started with DowAgroScience and his family. They just moved here from Tennessee and they have an almost 4yr old girl, a 2yr old boy, and a 4 month old girl. It is really cool to have some new friends that have 3 children almost the same exact ages as ours! Hope everyone has had a nice labor day weekend!
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