Hair Tale

Ahh I started this post and never finished!!!  The month is almost over!!

Cordelia finally started to feel better and acting more like herself.  We made it through the wedding ok, but she was not her usual happy self.  There was some light fussing at the start of the ceremony, so I tried to nurse her to keep her quiet.  But she kept thrashing her head about and waving her arms around.  I don't know if she didn't like the nursing cover on, maybe she found it distracting, or what.  Or maybe it's hard to nurse when you aren't feeling well.  Or maybe she wasn't hungry enough--- prememptively feeding her rather than waiting for her to really ask for her milk.  Or maybe she's starting teething along with everything else.  Or all of the above.  Anyway, I stopped feeding her around when the bride entered and she enjoyed standing and being held so she could look around the rest of the time.  She did well but was fussy off and on, and none of her meals were very good due to fussiness.  

She was also fussy on Sunday and had a hard time nursing.  Maybe a little bit of teething too?  It was tough.

On Monday Cordelia had frozen milk for the first time.  Then she also green poop.   And she was pooping all day long, instead of just 1 or 2 times.  Was it the frozen milk?  Was it her shots?  I'm just not sure!!  I read that green poop can be from a fore/hind milk imbalance.  The milk was from August and should still be good, but maybe back then I wasn't producing enough hind milk (cream).

Let's see, what else.  Cordelia has started to suck her thumb a bit, but still likes all the fingers as well.  She has mastered rolling from back to tummy and does it very fast.  She even rolled over on the changing table while nakey.  She was so cute with her little butt up in the air, but then of course she peed all over the table.   I guess we have changing table accidents quite a bit, but that is because between diapers we try and give her just a couple minutes of air time.  She has pretty much out grown her size small cloth diapers and we only have 6 complete diapers for the medium size.  She is growing a lot!  I already bagged up some of her 0-3 clothes.  It made me teary-eyed. She's already out of those tiny outfits.

The next weekend I got Cordelia to take a nap on our bed with me.  I was pretty tired so it was great.  She slept for like 2 hours.  She liked the weight of the comforter over her legs.  I know you are not supposed to put your baby in your bed and beware, beware of blankets and pillows, but oh well.  I'm not fully cosleeping, but it could be useful to help her sleep.  When she got up I did think she was a bit warm from being under the covers, but my mommy-senses were tingling.  Later, I thought she might be warm from being in the car and running errands. But she still felt warm after so I took her temperature!  Ding ding ding!  She did have a fever.  Her first cold!  She had a stuffy nose and was sleepy.  It did not change her mood at all, she was her regular happy self.

On Monday Aunt and Uncle watched her as Meme and Pop Pop were still coming back from Disneyland.  Jonathan said she was "easy-peasie," which made me soooo happy.  You always want your baby to be good for the babysitter, even with their first cold!

It was a tough work week and Jason has hurt his back.  Not good :(

Cordelia's stuffy nose is finally getting a bit runny.

But we still had adventures this weekend, making the trek out to a pumpkin patch.  It was a really nice outing a Cordelia got to wear her cute Halloween dress.  We let her touch the pumpkins and sit on them. She loved the cool breeze blowing in her face on a warm autumn day.  I sat down between two trees to nurse her and while I was there two other moms came and also nursed their babies.  Then I wore her in the ergo... it was excellent!  C took a nap and we did the corn maze.

We got some pumpkins and squash and went home for showers and bath time!  Then it was back out again to Rose and Nick's engagement party.  Cordelia had a great time at the party and stayed up very late and did not want to nurse!  She had gotten up late, after sleeping through the night again and I guess her whole day was pushed back a bit.  Plus she hates to nurse if I have the cover now.

So the capper to the weekend.... sleeping through the night + not eating as much= new plugged duct issues.  The right side this time.  Ouuuuuch! Anoth thing I am wondering is if my breast are kinda used to being pumped on both sides so now when I try nursing on just one side like you're supposed to for the weekend, everything gets fff-ed up, when combined with extra milk from sleeping through the night? Now I am struggling to figure out how to get all the milk out of my plugged boob (it also has a bleb this time) while not neglecting the other breast.

Oh!  And I never posted about why this post was titled Hair Tale.  I originally had wanted to write about how Cordelia has rubbed away most of her side hair and just has very long hair in the front, now coming down to her eyes.  One person described it as a faux hawk, another, lesbian hair, another, a combover.  LOL.  The sad thing is she used to have a little patch of longish hair behind one of her ears, from when she was born.  Sometimes it would get fluffed up and we would call it her Einstein or Mad Scientist hair.  But now it is gone and if I don't write about it, I will forget about that sweet little lock of hair.