WEBVTT - Mid-Week Mom Chat: Breast Feeding/ Pumping/ Formula. 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:04.800 Hey, friends, welcome to this midweek mom chat. I am 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:10.280 going to be talking to you about breastfeeding, pumping, feeding, 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:16.880 all of it. So I've been reluctant to do this 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.079 episode even though I get so many messages from you 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:25.400 amazing ladies about breastfeeding and feeding in general and what 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:30.360 my schedule is, um, how we do it, because to 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:35.840 be honest with you, it has changed weekly. I feel 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:39.160 like every single week of Sunny's four and a half 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.800 month life, we've done kind of something different. I mean, 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:44.960 sometimes I'll get in a groove for like a few weeks, 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.519 but it is evolving and changing, and I'm sure that 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.839 you all feel that same way. So when Sunny was 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:54.880 first born, I actually did a whole episode on this 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.240 when she was firstborn, like within the first month of 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.240 her life, and then I deleted it and never posted 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:03.280 it because I changed. I was we changed right after that, 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:05.000 and I was like, this isn't what we're doing anymore. 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.520 I can't post this. So I wanted to start with 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:12.080 that it changes all the time. And if you're trying 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:13.520 to find your groove and you feel like you can't 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.840 find your groove, UM, just know that's how I am 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.399 also I've sort of found a groove, and I'll get like, 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:22.560 oh yeah, I'm in my groove, and then my group 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:27.600 just changed last week, so my supply dropped last week. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.280 Like I was having this excess supply, feeling so confident 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.319 and my milk supply, and then all of a sudden, 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.400 I cannot make enough bottles to save my life. So 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.240 I'll be trying something new starting today. So let me 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.880 just get into it. When she was first born, UM, 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.880 I was only breastfeeding. I breastfed her. She latched right away. 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.960 It was awesome. But she would only feed for like 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.520 ten minutes on one side and then maybe five minutes 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.240 on the other side, which was totally cool when she 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.040 was just a little bitty baby because she wasn't needing 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.440 that many ounces, and we did that probably for the 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.520 exclusively UM, and I would time it. I would try 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.720 to make it even on both sides. My night nurse 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.600 did tell me that you should try to feed as 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.760 much as you can on one breast because your breast 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.440 milk is like layers. And Paula Power as my night 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:23.799 nurse at Nashville Baby Boss. She's the best. UM. Check 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.400 her out if you are in Nashville. And need and 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.720 you need a night nurse. She totally changed the game 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.760 for me and taught me everything I needed to know 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.560 about parenting, being a mom, baby schedules. I actually have 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:40.240 a podcast up with her, so check that one out. Um. So, 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.600 she told me that your breast milk comes in layers, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.360 Like the first little bit that your baby is getting 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.560 is the skim milk, and then you have like the 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.680 two percent, and then you have the good whole milk 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.880 at the end. So you want to feed on one 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:58.880 breast as long as you can, preferably until empty. Um. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.480 You don't want to necessary switch at like half. You 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.440 don't want to just switch in the middle and just 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.720 go to the other boob, because you want to keep 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.240 it even. You want to go ahead and get that 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.840 one breast all the way empty because that's where the good, strong, 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.919 thick milk is. I would never have known that. So 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:17.800 I would try to feed as long as I can 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.480 on one boob until I until it was as empty 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.920 as I could get it, and then I would just 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.440 top off the other one. Um top signing off with 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.040 the other boob. So we did that for the first 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.880 solid month to two months, and it was great. I 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.120 was only breastfeeding, although actually that's not true. See this 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:39.640 is what I'm telling you, It changes all the time. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:44.320 At about when she turned one month, I started working 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.200 in bottles, and so I would be I would breastfeed only, 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:53.480 but then I would pump like once a day. Um. 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:58.240 During that time, I would pump like after her first feeding. UM. 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.800 I would pump, and I was still only breastfeeding. In 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.360 the beginning with, I would pump and I was building 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.280 up a supply. And then about one month I started 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.520 working in bottles and what I would do then as 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.320 I would breastfeed her and I would top her off 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.080 with a bottle afterwards, just to make sure she was 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.920 getting enough, and she would always take like an ounce 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.359 or two. So I felt really good about that. I 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.599 was like, Okay, this is good. I just wanted to 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.680 make sure she's getting enough milk. So we did that 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.560 for about the first month. In the second month, we 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.719 really started working hard on trying to get her to 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.600 sleep through the night, because that was a huge priority 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.800 for me being an older mom. I have seeing so 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.919 many and my friends struggle with getting their children to sleep, 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.080 and so that's why I hired Paula Power My Night 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.240 nurse um to really teach me how to set up 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:51.080 methods for Sonny to sleep well, and she knocked it 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.240 off the park. And Sonny is an incredible sleeper and 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.240 I's been sleeping through the nights and she's two months old. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.239 And I owe all of that to Paula for teaching 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.799 Sonny and me how to get on a great rhythm 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:03.520 and routine. So at two months, I started working in 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.040 bottles because she was having that middle of the night 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:10.200 feeding at like three am, and if I would breastfeeder, 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:11.800 she would just eat for like five minutes and then 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.640 go back to sleep. If I would bottle feeder, she 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.240 would eat the full bottle. And I think at that 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:19.080 point she was eating four ounces um, so she would 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.200 eat the full bottle and I wanted her to get 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.440 that full bottle so she would sleep the rest of 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.400 the night. And I also around two months started giving 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.080 her a bottle as the last feeding of the day only, 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:33.839 so instead of feeding her on my boob that last 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.520 feeding of the day, around two months, I would feed 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.200 her a bottle because I wanted her to get a 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.200 full feeding before entering into the night's sleep. Because we 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.160 were really working hard to get her to sleep through 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.159 the night. So we did that and it started working 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.680 and she started sleeping through the night and we dropped 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.560 that middle feeding. So I actually if she started sleeping 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.160 through the night at two months, we probably started doing 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.120 that around a month and a half, where I was 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.280 giving her a bottle. At two months, I mean at 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.000 the end of the day her last feeding, and then 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.440 in the middle of the night feeding, I was giving 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.800 her two bottles without breastfeeding. So that's what we did 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.480 probably starting a month and a half, and then at 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.840 two months I was just giving her a bottle only 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.839 at that last feeding. I was breastfeeding all day, topping 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.440 off with a bottle to see if she wanted any, 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.520 and then that last feeding of the day before bedtime, 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.120 I would give her a bottle. Okay, So now we're 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.960 at two months. Um the book I'm following is Moms 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:32.839 on Call, and I can't remember exactly what It's so 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.120 crazy how you forget so fast because now we're at 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.680 four months and we're on a I'm on this schedule, 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.240 so I can't totally remember the schedule that we were doing, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.560 but I think it's always been about five bottles that 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:49.600 we give her UM or five feedings, and so I 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.440 just really go by those feedings and I will make 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:57.520 sure that I give her um whatever the ounces is 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.960 that she's supposed to be getting based on her age. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.159 I would really work hard to make sure she got those, 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.560 and I would I kind of figured out how many 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.880 ounces are in my breast because I would pump them, 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.680 and I would know, like when you pump that you 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.600 start to learn your boobs. So like in the morning, 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.560 they're my mostful because I do. I pump at ten 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.480 thirty at night and then I go all night and 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.240 I won't pump again until like eight thirty in the 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.560 morning because Sunny wakes up. She is a great sleeper, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:30.400 so she'll wake up like seven thirty or eight, and 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.960 I always feed her first and get her on her 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:39.040 play mat, and then I'll pump afterwards. And so my 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.760 and so I had been just strictly pumping and doing 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.880 bottles for this past few weeks, but now we're back 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.880 to breastfeeding again. So I'll talk about that because it 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.680 changes every single day. So I would pump in the 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:52.680 morning and I would get I mean, I would get 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.120 a lot of milk. I'm talking like eight or nine 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.320 ounces in my power boob, which is my left boob, 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:01.200 and then like five ounces in my right tube until 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.840 this past week when it has dropped significantly, which is 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.360 stressing me out. But that was my normal as I 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.480 was getting just a ton of milk in my left 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.880 boob and then in my right boob, I would be 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:17.080 getting a solid amount and then I would pump again, 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.920 so that would be like at nine um thirty nine pump, 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.520 and then I pump again around one thirty and I 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:28.400 would probably get four or five ounces and my um 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:33.400 left boob, and then about three ounces in my right boob, 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.680 and then I pump again around sixty seven and I'd 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.440 probably get like four ounces of my left boob, like 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.920 three ounces in my right boob, and then I pump 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:47.040 again at ten thirty and I'll get like kind of 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.400 the same or a little bit less. So that was 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.480 my schedule, and that's been my schedule for the past 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.000 um month and a half, I would say, and it's 0:08:55.000 --> 0:09:01.560 been going great and over the over Chris Smiths holidays, 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.840 So the past three weeks, I kind of stopped breastfeeding 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:11.040 because we were traveling on planes so much and we're 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.280 around people all the time. We took three trips over 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.080 the holidays. We went to South Carolina to see Michael's family, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.840 went to Texas to see my family, and then we 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.640 had a band retreat that we do every year with 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.040 a thousand Horses band family because all you guys who 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.160 follow me know my husband's in a band of thousand Horses. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.160 There's four guys in that band. And then all the 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.120 guys are married and we're all best friends. The wives 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.240 and the um husbands were all best friends. We've been 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.920 in this band together now for like ten years, and 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.280 so we have this band retreat every year in Aspen 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.920 because Amanda, who's married to Bill, the guitar player, her 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.760 family has a house in Aspen, and so we've made 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.240 it a tradition to go there every year and just 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.480 like reset our intentions be with the band, um get 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:59.120 clear about you know, just united and clear about our 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.600 visions for the year. It's really amazing and awesome. It's 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.240 really cool that it's become a tradition. We love it. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.199 And Sunny came this year to Aspen. So we're traveling 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.280 now for three weeks over Christmas. We had some space 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.240 in between each trip we'd come back to Nashville, but 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:17.400 it's just like so much traveling, so many airplanes. Um, 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.000 I just I don't know. It was stressful for me 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.959 to think about trying to breastfeed with all that travel, 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.760 because we were in planes, were in cars, were around people, 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:29.199 were She's off her schedule like crazy, and I just 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:30.800 I don't know. I just didn't want to be whipping 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.319 up my bob and trying to make sure she got 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.160 a full feed when we're in some place that I 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.080 can't find a good place to settle into and get 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:41.760 her really comfortable. And she's a great bottle feeder. So 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.800 over the holidays, over those three weeks, I found myself 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.160 not breastfeeding, and I kinda was sad about it. I 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.160 was like, oh my gosh, is it over? Are we 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.760 done breastfeeding? Like I'm mourning this loss a little bit. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.360 And I talked to my sister Catherine, and she is 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:02.520 such a positive in influence in my life. Katherine's like, listen, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.520 if something is working for you and things are going well, 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.600 then don't mourn it. Like the goal is always to 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.120 have a healthy baby, Like, yes, you can just let 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:15.600 it go. Try not to look at it is a 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.800 sad thing. Look at it is I'm still I'm providing 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.240 for my child her nutrients. However, you do that even 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.160 if you can't breastfeed or pump and get milk, if 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:30.200 you're using formula, you're providing nutrients for your baby. You're 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.560 doing the best you can and just let it go. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.440 If something has left your life, then don't mourn it. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.360 Embrace where you are. And that really helps me. Every 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.000 time I want to feel sad about something, I'm like, 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.480 oh my gosh, is this over, I'm just like, no, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.720 it's okay. This is what we're doing right now. This 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.960 is working, Sunny is thriving, and I'm not gonna be 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.080 sad because I want I want to be I'm mourning 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:58.000 the loss of breastfeeding. We're healthy, We've got something that's 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.880 working for us. So I'm gonna be happy because we 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.800 are having health. And I'm always gonna be thankful for health. 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.600 And that is always my my truth and I always 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.199 come back to that, I am thankful for health because 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.560 health is wealth. And if we can be healthy and 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.920 we have something that's working for us, then praise God 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.600 because that is just a blessing. And we all know 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.199 how much of a blessing health is. And if we 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.439 don't have our house, we deal with it. But if 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.200 we have our health, I'm going to be thankful. And 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.160 so that is my mantra always and Katherine, my sisters 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:31.199 really helped me get there. Um And so we're only 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.079 bottle feeding over the holidays, and she was eating seven 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.120 ounces because she is a good eater, six to seven 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.280 ounces every time, and that was around three months we 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.560 started traveling. She turned three months December tenth, and we 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.360 started traveling probably a week after that. So she was 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.400 three months eating six to seven ounces, and I was 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.400 giving her five bottles a day. She's having three naps 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:57.200 a day, so she still has five bottles a day 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:02.080 and three naps a day. Over the holidays, we I 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.000 had to let go of control because we'd be on 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.079 planes sometimes and she would just have to take cat naps, 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:09.600 or we'd get in a car and she would take 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.240 like a thirty minute nap here with it at a 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.440 family dinner, or a forty five minute nap here in 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.199 a car, or she would take a thirty minute nap 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.120 on a plane or we've been an airport, and like 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.920 she was a champ. I had anxiety obviously, because I 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.920 love to have anxiety about new things with her, which 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.040 I'm working on this year, letting go of my anxiety, 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.760 um and just trusting the process and just trusting Sonny 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.160 because she's got this, so let's just roll baby, that's 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:40.160 my goal. Um. So we had to let go of 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.920 our schedule. So, but what I always stuck to was 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.440 the five bottles. And that's another reason why I wanted 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.720 to do bottles, because I couldn't depend on my knap 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:52.480 schedule anymore. And so with the knap schedule, you can 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:58.760 like feed nap feed nap feed nap feed, feed nap feed, 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:00.719 not feed nap feed. Is that and so that I 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.800 don't know, it ended up being when you have a schedule, 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.480 it's easier to like stay on track with feedings. But 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.560 since we didn't have a schedule, I stayed on track 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.719 with my bottles. So I always had five bottles that 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:12.160 I would get her during a day. And that's how 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.480 I knew she got enough milk. And that gave me 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.320 just more peace of mind knowing that, Okay, this is 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.840 this is what I can control, is the amount of 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:25.000 milk she gets each day. So we would do five 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.480 bottles a day. Uh really, I mean most of the time, 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.680 it's six seven ounces, but sometimes traveling it would be 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.960 five ounces. I would always try to get five to 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.960 seven ounces in during one of her five feedings during 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.320 the day. Her schedule that she's on now is she 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.440 goes to bed or between seven thirty and eight thirty. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.200 Whenever she's tired, she lets me have her tired cry, 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.200 and I know when she's ready for bed. We're in 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.200 a sleep sack now, so that's awesome. We're out of 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.080 the swaddle. We got out of the swaddle a little 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.640 a little bit before three months. She sleeps great, um, 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.440 and then she'll wake up around seven thirty, between seven 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.080 thirty and honestly sometimes nine. She loves to sleep, and 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.200 I'm knock on wood. I am grateful for that. We 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.880 worked hard on that though. And you can follow moms 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.800 on call that book and they will really help you 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.880 get on a good sleep schedule. Or talk to my 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.680 night nurse Paula Power, she does consults Nashville Baby Bus, 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.320 and she'll help you get on a good schedule. Um. 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.280 So when she wakes up, we feed and then study 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:24.000 goes speed um five to seven ounces, usually it's seven 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.680 because she's hungry. Then she plays and then she'll go 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.200 down like an hour and a half later, for about 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:30.920 an hour and a half to two hours. That's her 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:35.120 big nap. We have one big nap, then she wakes up, 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:39.040 we feed again, five to seven ounces, Um, we play, 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.440 she goes down again, and she'll normally go down for 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.920 like forty five minutes to an hour. Then we wake up, 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:48.360 we feed again, we play. Then she'll go down again 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.600 for like forty five minutes to an hour, and then 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.440 we wake up. We feed, we play, and we stay 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.120 up then and then I'll give her a bath and 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:01.560 then we'll play some more, walk around, owned um, just 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.880 do whatever. And during the afternoon, I always if I can. 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.720 Obviously with holidays, we were traveling and I couldn't do that, 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.600 but if I can, I love to get her that 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.560 big nap at home, just that solid nap, because that's 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:14.840 when she has her hour and a half to two 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.000 hour nap in the morning. And if she can get 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.840 that one, I feel great. And then we catch the 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.640 two other forty five minute naps to an hour. We 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.200 can catch those in a car, we can be mobile. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.800 I don't worry so much about those because they're quick. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.920 So that's been awesome, is just to be able to 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.360 be free in the afternoons, and I can take her places, 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.640 Michael and I can take her places because she's just 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.160 getting this little forty five minutes in our naps, so 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:46.040 that's awesome. And then I'll feed her again after the 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:50.160 bad time, and then we do bad time, and we'll 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.280 do a quick story. We'll do maybe a little more 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.000 playing Michael Holder. We watch a little TV and then 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.240 I feed her that bottle, get her cozy, put on 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.120 a lotion in and brush her little hair, her little 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:06.320 bald spot. She doesn't have much hair. And then I 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.560 will rock her just kind of like hold her and 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.560 rock her and seeing to her, and then put her sleep, 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:12.560 and then she sleeps in the morning. So that is 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.159 our schedule. That is what we're doing now. And I 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.360 was only doing bottles. So once we got back from 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.160 a holiday, so I was like, man, is breastfeeding over 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.840 for me? Like? Is it done? I feel sad a 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.119 little bit, like I'm fine with it because like I 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.639 told y'all, I don't want to ever feel sad for health, 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.359 So I don't feel set. Let me reframe that. I 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.639 was like, man, maybe I would like to try to 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.720 breastfeed again. Maybe it's not over. Maybe we can work 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:39.640 it back in just a little bit. Even though she's 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:45.800 thriving on the bottles. So I started breastfeeding her again 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.000 in the morning and now when we wake up her 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.240 first feeding off, feed her for like quick, it's not long, 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.160 five to ten minutes, and it's sweet and I love 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.320 it and I'm glad we're doing it right now. And 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.000 if it changes and we can't keep doing that, that's fine. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.360 But I'll breastfeeder in the morning only that's the only 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.879 time I'm breastfeeding her, and then I'll give her a 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.399 bottle and she'll feed on me for like five to 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.920 ten minutes, probably get two or three ounces, not much, 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:12.679 and then she'll take a bottle and she'll take another 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.080 like five ounces. So I definitely top her off with 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.959 a bottle, like four to five ounces she'll take And 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.080 I've really enjoyed that. And that's what we're doing right now, 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:22.800 and we'll do that as long as it works, and 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:24.440 as soon as we need to change, we're gonna change, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.919 because that's how it goes to the baby. And my 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.800 grandmother also always says, enjoy life's pleasures when you have them, 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.120 and when you don't don't mourn, and I think it's 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.959 really sweet and I'm loving breastfeeding just a little bit 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:36.720 with Sunny, and we're gonna keep it up until it 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.000 doesn't work or until we need to change. So that 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:45.280 is how that goes now. Pumping, I um, when I 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.320 was getting my most milk, which I'm about to start 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:51.800 doing again, I was pumping, like I told y'all, after 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:53.200 she wakes up and I feed her in the morning. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.240 I pumped so like around anywhere between eight and nine, 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.080 I pump, and then I'll probably get it one thirty. 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.240 Then I'm probably at six thirty. Then I'm pumping in 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:05.040 at ten thirty. On vacation and got we were traveling 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.200 so much it was hard to find a place to pump. 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.040 I dropped one of my pumps in the middle of 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.000 the day, so I was pumping in the morning and 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.040 then I would pump around between five and six, and 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.320 then I would pump between like ten thirty. And it 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.600 worked for me over the holidays, but I guess it 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.399 really told my boobs that, oh, you don't need as 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:30.200 much milk, because now my milk supply has dropped dramatically, 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.600 and I am like diving into my reserve milk that 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.879 I have in the freezer, and it's freaking me out. 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.840 And so now that we're home and I'm not traveling 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:43.439 again for a long time, I am adding that fourth 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.200 pump back in. So instead of trying to get by 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.040 with three pumps a day, I will be moving back 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.320 to four pumps a day. So I'll be pumping between 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:54.399 nine eight nine in the morning, around one thirty in 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:58.000 the afternoon, around six thirty in the afternoon, I mean 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.119 in the evening, and then ten thirty at night. And 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:02.080 That's what I'll be doing. And I was talking to Paula, 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:06.600 my night nurse, and she um told me I should 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.760 power pump to build up my milk supply. So y'all 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.879 google that. Basically what it is is you during one 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.200 of your pump sessions, you pump like every ten minutes, 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.480 like pump your full boob and then wait ten minutes 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.680 and pumping in and then wait ten minutes and pumping 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:22.880 in for that full hour, and just like do that 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.320 for a few days to let your boobs know we 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.960 need more milk. So I'm gonna start power pumping um 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.200