Listen To The Voice of Experience

So, last night my wife is talking to my step-mom on the phone. When the wife hangs up, she tells me that she and dad are coming down tomorrow (today at the time of this post) and they are bringing us some food. I told her "This isn't a funeral" hinting at how people take food to morners to help them in their hour of need. I'm thinking, we had a baby, we're good.

Listen to the voice of experience.

This morning they show up and I have a different take on the brought food: I'm hungry!! Why, because we have been concentrating on the new baby that we forgot or didn't have time to eat ourselves. BTW: breast feeding is NOT as easy as it sounds. By the time we got our little one down for a nap after this last feeding, it had been 22 hours since I'd eaten. I had tried to fix something last night after we put him down for a nap, but he only stayed asleep for as long as it took me to cook what I was going to eat. Once we got him fed and back down, I couldn't even smell what I'd cooked because it made feel sick.

So, listen to those that have been down the path that you're about to travel, it will make the journey much easier.

Thanks Karen and Dad, you may never know how much that ment to us.

So, right now both mom and myself have eaten and baby is sleeping (hopefully for another 2 hours then we'll have to get him up for another feeding).

All of this feeding sounds like we're feeding him too much, but we're breastfeeding and the experts say to feed 8 - 12 times in a 24 hour period. The baby doesn't take in as much as a normal bottle so he'll tell us when he's ready.

God is good.