I’ve got a million half finished posts, and if I keep waiting for coherence it’s never going to happen so I will have to resort to Random Bullets of Crap.
- Back to work on Monday. I know! I can’t believe it either. I’m working part time for the next four weeks so hopefully that will give us time to adjust
- LittleC is going to daycare on Monday. I finally settled on a place very close to where I work. Close enough that I should be able to do the lunch time feed and not have to pump.
- I have first day at school jitters. What if I do something wrong and they all laugh at LittleC?
- The milk factory has been primed. I’ve been pumping mid morning and having my mom give him a bottle. I finally seem to have figured out how to get more than 1 oz from my left breast. I need different sized shields for each breast. I have the required number of bottles and pumping supplies to get me through a day and a few extras to account for my shoddy housekeeping skills. The milk bar is contained and Bisous was right: Johnson & Johnson’s breast pads are the best. They are the only ones I have found that are shaped like a breast and that aren’t crinkly and show under clothing.
- The wardrobe is a complete disaster. Have no idea what I am going to wear. Should be OK because our dress code is casual for the summer. But right now nothing fits and I really don’t feel like spending any money
- LittleC is sleeping through the night. Down by 8:30/9:00 pm, up at 5:15 am, eats and back to sleep till 7 am. Today he skipped the 5:00 am feed
- So why am I still so exhausted?
- And on that note, I’m off to bed.
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August 7, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I found Kohls to be a good place for post-pregnancy wear, because they have a lot of cheap clothes in forgiving sizes. Also, empire waist, deep v-neck shirts over maternity tanks work great – if you pump at work, you don’t have to get totally undressed, or pump under a shirt – just pull everything down, or the shirt up and the tank down. Skirts are good too – they shrink with you, and you can wear your spandex workout shorts under them. Keep wearing the maternity pants at first, of course. But many maternity shirts are no good anymore.
Once the milk bar is not explosively tender, sports bras a size up from your normal size are great nursing wear and much cheaper than nursing bras. Then when your regular bras start to fit again, you can just use them.