Sunday, June 15, 2008

Feeling Great!

So it's been a week and I feel so good. I went to the chiro 2 days postpartum. That helped soooo much. I highly recommend it to anyone about to have a baby and following the birth. I was so out of alignment from the birth.
I had my 1 week pp visit with the midwife yesterday and she was just amazed at how quickly I am recovering. My uterus is already the size of a peach. In just another week or so I would guess it will be impossible to find.
A lot of you have emailed to ask how I am feeling... mentally... well truth is I feel great! Mia is with wonderful and caring parents, she is nursing like a champ and has a big sister who totally adores her. What's not to be thrilled about the way this ended? I talked to Candace today and they had a decent trip home. A few things could have been better, like a cleaner train but all in all they were at least comfortable. The second train they were on was better than the first she said. Her mom and dad met them at the station with a limo for their ride home. She shared some pictures from the trip home. They are up on a website. It's amazing how much Mia's face has changed in just a week. Today is fathers day and I am just thrilled to death that Alex has his little girl in his hands to celebrate the day. I swear I couldn't have done this for a more deserving and amazing couple and I am just so unbelievably happy with how things turned out.
I am also pumping milk for my kids now too and am so happy with how much I am getting for them. I have decided to keep pumping and am trying to get my hands on a PIS advance to help facilitate pumping for them. Lance is really loving my milk and I think I want to keep this up for as long as he wants to have the milk. I am up to almost 30 ounces a day and now Lance is drinking more breast milk than cows milk again which makes me happy.
let's see... oh I have already shed 21 lbs. Kyra says my belly is no longer floppy(like how it is the first days after birth) and my bleeding is down to a trickle. I am already back into my size 10's. YAY!!! Although I want to tone up my mid section nicely. I am going to start microdermabrasion to help with the hyper-pigmentation I have had to deal with because of pregnancy. I go for my first treatment early in July. I have to do some other skin lightening treatment before starting the mda so that is why the wait.
Next week I turn 34 and I feel like I am exactly where I belong in my life.

4 comments:

Lynn Marie said...

Glad to hear you are feeling so good! I was wondering, how did you guys do the whole colostrum thing? I know that Candace had been pumping for a while to build her supply, so did you nurse Mia after the birth or did you guys just forgo that step? I was just curious. I bet you look as wonderful as you feel, and I'm glad that everything turned out so very well in the end. Congratulations to all of you.

Andrea Betty said...

I pumped some colostrum for her while she was here and I am still pumping for Lance and Kyra. Lance is drinking most of it though. He LOVES it.
She fed Mia the colostrum through a syringe and finger feeding.

Sherry said...

I am glad you are feeling so well. You have the perfect surrogates attitude about the whole event. :)

Glad you are getting the milk for Lance, I know he weaned much too soon for your comfort...and his, so this will be good.

Beth said...

I'm so glad to hear you are doing so well!