The past few weeks have just flown by. I have gotten serious about losing the rest of this BABY weight. I swear I looked better three weeks after giving birth than I do today almost 9 months later. Where did those months go? Sweet Baby Jesus, they went straight to my spare tire. Spending 5 weeks in Alabama over the summer was not kind to my midsection, even with working out, there no way I could turn down all that food.
So now, NINE months later I'm struggling to really get back in gear counting calories and working out hard......I have the wonderful ability to work from home four days a week, so rather than work out after work I have been getting up at 5 AM to work out at home before I start work at 7. I HATE JILLIAN MICHAELS. I can tell you that while I love working out, I do not love it at 5 AM. I get a 20 minute run in, then Jillian Michaels and her manself screams at me for the next 30 minutes. You would think the weight would be falling off since I'm still breastfeeding (we will get to that in a minute), but alas it is not. I'm seriously glad I only go into the office one day a week because them folks like to eat out.
So, now that I have shared my mission to lose 30...yes the 30 lingering lbs of the 60 I gained I fully expect everyone who reads this to hold me accountable not matter how mean I am to you about it. Let's face it, we both know I'm going to be mean. I hate dieting. Meagan I think we need to have some bitch sessions....aren't you angry too or are you off the wagon? How them new shoes doing?
On to the joys of breastfeeding.......Seriously it was joyful for about the first 4 months until my little nugget got used to being able to bite her bottle and then decided she could also bite me. W.....T.....F......that shit hurts and now with a tooth......let's just say she is clearly ready for a cheeseburger because that little 19 pound midget might as well be a great white. She made me BLEED the other night. It was like the minute I noticed her tooth she decided to put it to good use and while I still plan to go a year (I mean shit, I made it nine months and I'm no quitter) at what price? If I lose a nipple, I wonder if my insurance will pay to have it reattached? Please note, I do not find breastfeeding joyful anymore, it has it's moments, but for the most part the last few days I've been holding my breath each time she nurses praying I go with in with two and come out with two. Also, I do believe it's the reason she has not been very sick. She has been one of the least sick babies of all my friends and she is also one of the few still being breastfed.........you do the math.
Over the past few weeks I have been reading "Bringing Up Bebe" a book by Pamela Druckerman who discusses, in great detail, the differences between American parenting and French parenting. I picked the book up thinking it was going to be funny tales of these differences but what I got was a well written and throughly reserached book. I seriously wanted to take notes while I was reading as if there was going to be a test later.
Druckerman is an American who married a Brit, and they live in France. WTF...., but that is besides the point. While I am NOT a fan of the French, and let's get real who is, I was curious about this book and I must say, I fully plan to use some of these methods on Sadie Marie. I didn't continue reading it to get a new way of parenting, I tend to read things, adopt the things I like or see value in, and then completely discredit and mock the rest because after one child we all know I'm an expert.
For example, the French have this thing they call the Pause......where they don't immeidately pick up their children the moment they start crying, they give them 5-10 minutes to try to self soothe or to get distracted and play by themselves. I'm already trying to do this more. Sadie Marie fully expects to be picked up every time she starts crying and if she goes more than 5 minutes, well that is my limit. I have already found that sometimes she will only cry for a minute or two and then she's happy playing for the next 15. This is supposed teach autonomy. I get it, if they are happy playing let them play, no need to overstimulate. Some of the stories she told about parents in NYC at the park are priceless.
She tells a story about a mother who is giving a play by play of their child's play, to the child, WHILE the child is physically acting out the movement. It went something like this, "Jeffery is sliding down the slide, Jeffery is swining, Jeffery is running!!!!" Are you kidding me? I bet that kid was like SHUT UP!!!!!!!! I know I'm running you idiot.
I could go on and on with examples of things I agree with and things I disagree with from this book but those are my opinions and what I found interesting is this book was NOT full of opinions. This was a legit research book that was entertaining and funny. It was jammed packed with real life experiences, research both old and new, and some opinions based on those real life experiences. On thing I did find interesting is Druckerman has the same slightly bitter taste in her mouth for the "What to Expect" books as I do. I know they are also meant to be informative, but they are mostly filled with worst case senarios that just scare the crap out of me. Maybe that is just what I took from the books, but at month seven I stopped reading "What to Expect the First Year." I don't need to read it, I'm living that shit. PS, telling your nine month old not to bite you and taking the boob away from them only pisses them off further.
I officially stopped actually nursing yesterday. I tried to "teach" Sadie Marie not to bite me but after I got bit three times just during our afternoon session.....well F that. It also makes so nervous each time I sit down to feed and let's be real, I don't need that shit. I'm going to continue to pump and perhaps nurse sometimes just in the morning,s but last night while I was giving her a bottle, she was knawing on that thing like it was a piece of beef jerky. NO THANK YOU. Bottles and sippy cups please.
Moving on.
Not only has my little nugget gotten her first tooth, but two months after she officially started crawling, she has decided she will actually use it. I'm not kidding when I say two months ago she started crawling and then she just decided she was not going to and stopped. Now she has taken off! I took several videos of her yesterday so I could show the baby daddy when he got home late last night and of course I posted them to Facebook for all to see. It's just so funny that she has got such a mind of her own, I wonder where she got it from!?!
Now that Sadie Marie is officially mobile, I gotta get this house baby proofed, ASAP. Just thinking about this reminds me of the movie Baby Mama where Tina Fey's character baby proofs her house complete with a toilet lock. I'm thinking about implementing one of these to see if the baby daddy can unlock it or if he will just pee in in the tub......I also have no doubt Sadie Marie will try to flush herself down the toilet so I better get on that.
We have a busy weekend and week ahead......This weekend we have to take her nine month photos, she goes for her nine month check up today, PARENTS NIGHT OUT tomorrow, chruch on Sunday, the baby daddy leaves for the week on Monday, and then Cici and Gigi come to town! I'm so excited for my Cunnie and Lib to get here I can barely stand it. I think this is the longest my mom has ever been without seeing Sadie Marie.
I'm anxious to see if any of the French parenting skills I plan to use actually work on my little headstrong American. Many of these parenting skills are going to be a matter of circumstance more than my abilty to inforce them. This is even pointed out by the author that it was most like easier for her to enforce these things she leared from the French because she was in France where everyone else was doing the same thing. Nonetheless, the more she moves and talks I'm sure it's only going to get more interesting so I will keep y'all posted.
Have a good weekend!
April
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