Monday, January 4, 2010

Lactation clinic

So on top of again feeling the affects of doing too much ( was wearing Alex while shopping with Cari part of it? :( I was again stressing about my supply last night. So I called and wedged myself into the lactation clinic held every Monday through the hospital's low-cost clinic.
This is entertaining.
When I arrived, Alex was the biggest. By far. The 6-week old one was maaaaybe 8 pounds, a tiny wrinkled little man next to my 12-and-a-half (yep, accurate as of today) monster. A couple of them were pretty fresh from the hospital, and a few of them needed major help.
I went mostly for the weight check-in and also to get help positioning him when my Boppy pillow isn't around (oh Boppy pillow, I should write an ode to thee!)
So while waiting, Alex decided he had to be the fussy one.v Well, turned out he had a reason, he completely blew out his diaper, so everyone got to witness me using a million wipes because it was all over (there was a changing table there in the room.)
After everyone else got started (Alex was low priority, so no problem there) he got weighed and then we got help with figuring out how to hold him (very convenient for in a car, etc.) He stopped eating about halfway done, so we weighed him. He had eaten less than 2 ounces, so we tried again. A total of 3-and-a-half ounces later, my smling, happy, flirtatious boy was much happer (Seriously, what is up with all of the women going gaga over my kid? It's really cute, he even had the lactation consultant going gaga.)
I talked with one of the ladies there, and listened to a couple conversations as well. I decided on my own that he wasn't gaining like he could, so I wanted to try to up my supply.
I ran over to Clarks after buying some much-needed diapers and bought sone fenugreek and real oatmeal.
I'm going to use the oatmeal as a jump start, but one of the other moms was using fenugreek and really liked her results.
So hopefully this and drinking a LOT of water will solve my problems.
*off to drink water*

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