Updates..

Still not much to report. I LOVE being a mommy. My little girl is the most amazing thing and I LOVE everything she does.. She is now 12 weeks old, she will be 3 months on Sunday. She FINALLY moved out of her newborn size diapers this week. It took forever. she has been wearing 0-3 month size clothes for awhile, but i discovered today that some of her newborn clothes still fit.. I weighed her a week ago and she was 10lb 2ozs..
We are taking her to a new Dr next week. We have decided to try to take her to our family practice dr. I am still not sure about it, but we don't like a our pediatrician, but it is SO nearby, it almost seems silly to drive somewhere else. So our family practice dr is in the same building.. and I REALLY like them for myself, so why wouldn't i like them for Eve? I really hope it works out. We do have a third option, but the least amount of switching, the better.

We are still having a LITTLE bit of trouble with MIL watching her while i am at work. I thought we had it worked out and i had been giving her a loose feeding schedule.. but on Tuesday, Eve got 3 four ounce bottles in just over 3 hours. Umm.. thats about half of her daily food intake in 3 hours... So DH talked to MIL about it (but was perhaps too confrontational).. I talked to her more about it today, and she actually TOLD me that it seemed like Eve had bad gas and was crying a lot..so she gave her a bottle...WHY WOULD YOU FEED HER to remedy gas? She didn't give her the gas drops, or gripe water, she fed her more? REALLY? Tonight she watched her again, and was better about feeding her.. but she left in her note "Eve had 3 bad belly aches".. I have no idea what that means.. but I am just picturing my baby SCREAMING for hours on end.. I hate that i was not there for her.. I am seriously crying thinking about it right now.. I don't feel like anyone else knows how to help her. Then when Jeff got home he said that Eve was still very cranky and was spitting up a lot, so it sounded like she had a really rough night.. but she was asleep before I got home from work.. I HATE this.

In more positive news, I think awhile back, I blogged about how I was sad that I might not be able to keep breastfeeding once I returned to work. Well, I am proud to say, that not only am I still breastfeeding exclusively after being back to work for over a month, but I haven't even had to touch my freezer stash once! I do only work part time.. somewhere around 20 hours a week.. this week will be a little more... but I am so happy about this. I thought i might start introducing formula around 3 months.. but I have a 100 oz freezer stash, so even if I am not able to keep up pumping what she needs, I have lots that i can supplement with. So my new goal is to exclusively breastfeed for 4 months. I really don't WANT to give her formula. Breastfeeding is still challenging for me.. I don't have a great supply. She is a fussy eater and sometimes its hard for me to tell if she is hungry or if her belly is upset (my former pediatrician says she probably has reflux but won't medicate for it unless she is "miserable" and we can't just deal with it...will be asking new Dr about this.).. but the benefits of breastfeeding really outweigh the challenges. I have become quite used to nursing in public. My nursing cover is my best friend. I have nursed at several restaurants, the mall (lots of times at the mall, my mom did a craft show there for a week and Eve and i spent several days with her there), outside, in the car in lots of times... So.. I never have to worry about carrying a bottle with me.. I don't have to worry about making her bottles when I am home with her.. And frankly.. I find bottle feeding a pain.. It takes me two hands to feed her a bottle. It takes me one or NO hands to breastfeed. So.. these are all reasons why I want to keep it up. Not to mention its good for her.