I'm very proud to say that Anderson and I will meet my goal of breastfeeding for the first year! We're at 9.5 months and he's still nursing well and I'm still able to pump enough when I'm at work. I had to take "inventory" or my freezer stash last weekend because I found a few almost too old bags of milk so I needed to organize. I currently have over 300oz of frozen breast milk! Holy cow right? While it seems like a lot, in actuality if it were all he was to drink it would only last about 2 weeks. Shocking huh? Anderson is actually not a huge fan of frozen milk and now that I feel confident we'll make it to the 12 month mark I decided to start the steps to donating the frozen milk and just sending him fresh milk to day care. Milk donation is actually in very high demand because premature babies need human milk and most mother's of premature babies have a really hard time establishing and maintaining a milk supply for their babies because they have to exclusively pump. Talking with our wonderful lactation consultants at our hospital they recommended going through a company called Prolacta. They take human breast milk and turn it into "Human Fortified Milk" specifically for premature babies and send it to NICUs all over the country. I've filled out the initial donor "interview" and now wait for them to send me a kit where I'll send blood and milk samples for them to test. Once that gets done and processed and they deem my milk "worthy" they'll send me pre paid coolers, gel packs and all essentials to ship the milk. The whole process takes about 2-4 weeks. As an added bonus. If my application goes through successfully by September 30 and I donate 300oz of milk then I'll receive a $300 "pump reimbursement" check! Talk about a win-win situation! Help premature babies, get my freezer space back AND get a little extra cash :)
Moo!
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Friday, August 3, 2012
9 Months!
Where does the time go? Seriously?! Has our sweet, busy boy been with us now as long as he was inside of me?? Are we really only 3 months away from his first birthday?
It's fun and exciting but also sad in a way to see the days/months just tick away before my eyes. It truly does feel like just yesterday we were bringing him home from the hospital.
So what's going on with the little man? At his well baby appointment he was a healthy, long and skinny busy boy! Weighing in at just about 19 lbs and measuring just shy of 29". I'm hoping he'll put on a few more pounds now that we finally got him switched from zantac to prilosec to better manage his reflux. He is as busy as ever! From the time he wakes up with the exception of his two naps he's on the GO! Crawling, cruising, climbing and getting into EVERYTHING! Side note on his crawling- for months he did what we called the "lurch"-something between an army crawl and a bear crawl but suddenly this month he decided to crawl "normally". He is starting to stand on his own for a few seconds and getting really brave cruising one handed pushing his truck. Walking is just around the corner!! He's still a smiley, happy boy that waves "bye bye" babbles at everyone and gives them huge grins. He has two solid teeth now and 2 that have still just barely cut. His teeth seem to be in no huge hurry to make a grand appearance. He nurses or takes a cup 4 times a day, eats three solid meals and at least one snack. He's getting really good with table food/finger foods and loves cheese, blueberries and mini raviolies the best. He loves cruising from sofa to sofa antogonizing the dogs and banging anything together to make the loudest noise possible. He is obsessed with climbing on the dishwasher. He still loves his daycare and Ms. Nicole who takes such good care of him while I work. He plays so hard that he usually cat naps on the way home! He's still a great sleeper- takes two naps that are usually 1-2 hrs each and sleeps from 7:00pm-6:30 am on average. He's definitely an early riser. I've tried putting him down later and he's still up bright and early so for now that's just how it is. As usual, I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff but that's all I can think of for now :)
Work is still going good for me. Will likely get busy with the rally coming up this week. I was officially accepted to the University of Utah to start my doctorate this fall! Very excited/nervous!
Possible exciting changes coming with Todd and work, will update as we know more! He succussfully completed his "Package Commander" and "Mission Commander" upgrades at Red Flag.
Sunday Todd and I have a babysitter and are going for a date night rally style to see the Zac Brown Band in Sturgis! Very excited!
Until next time....
It's fun and exciting but also sad in a way to see the days/months just tick away before my eyes. It truly does feel like just yesterday we were bringing him home from the hospital.
So what's going on with the little man? At his well baby appointment he was a healthy, long and skinny busy boy! Weighing in at just about 19 lbs and measuring just shy of 29". I'm hoping he'll put on a few more pounds now that we finally got him switched from zantac to prilosec to better manage his reflux. He is as busy as ever! From the time he wakes up with the exception of his two naps he's on the GO! Crawling, cruising, climbing and getting into EVERYTHING! Side note on his crawling- for months he did what we called the "lurch"-something between an army crawl and a bear crawl but suddenly this month he decided to crawl "normally". He is starting to stand on his own for a few seconds and getting really brave cruising one handed pushing his truck. Walking is just around the corner!! He's still a smiley, happy boy that waves "bye bye" babbles at everyone and gives them huge grins. He has two solid teeth now and 2 that have still just barely cut. His teeth seem to be in no huge hurry to make a grand appearance. He nurses or takes a cup 4 times a day, eats three solid meals and at least one snack. He's getting really good with table food/finger foods and loves cheese, blueberries and mini raviolies the best. He loves cruising from sofa to sofa antogonizing the dogs and banging anything together to make the loudest noise possible. He is obsessed with climbing on the dishwasher. He still loves his daycare and Ms. Nicole who takes such good care of him while I work. He plays so hard that he usually cat naps on the way home! He's still a great sleeper- takes two naps that are usually 1-2 hrs each and sleeps from 7:00pm-6:30 am on average. He's definitely an early riser. I've tried putting him down later and he's still up bright and early so for now that's just how it is. As usual, I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff but that's all I can think of for now :)
Work is still going good for me. Will likely get busy with the rally coming up this week. I was officially accepted to the University of Utah to start my doctorate this fall! Very excited/nervous!
Possible exciting changes coming with Todd and work, will update as we know more! He succussfully completed his "Package Commander" and "Mission Commander" upgrades at Red Flag.
Sunday Todd and I have a babysitter and are going for a date night rally style to see the Zac Brown Band in Sturgis! Very excited!
Until next time....
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