The challeges of new motherhood

Breastfeeding is sore. I've got the latch down ok. Not the greatest, but ok. My areola are kinda huge, so Kaua cant get his mouth around the whole thing, but we try to get as much as we can in him. Sometimes he slips though, and then ouchie city! Because of this, I dont want to move around too much and cause him to slip, so I'm pretty much confined to my position when he starts. This is causing me to be uber prepared before starting, and grateful for DH to hand me water, the burp cloth, or other necessities. Also, sometimes, well often times, he'll fall asleep while breast feeding, even after only a few minutes. But the real pain of breast feeding? The engorgement when my milk came in. Wooooweee, now that was sore (of course, not anywhere near as sore as those early labor contractions), but sore nonetheless. My milk came in 4 days after birth and man, were my BBs so full and tender. I felt like a play boy bunny, they had grown so big. I tried pumping a little, but I'm so reluctant to pump because 1) I dont like doing it, dont know why, I have an excellent pump, and 2) I dont want my BBs tricked into thinking they should be making more milk, instead of less. So it's a constant challenge to figure out how much I should be pumping to alleviate the pain from engorgement, while still not taking too much out to cause an uneven supply and demand. The engorgement lasted for about 2-3 days, but its still there if one BB hasn't been fed upon in over 3-4 hours....this happens often as Kaua tends to only get one BB finished per feeding (he takes an average of 10-15 minutes on the BB the is asleep and usually wont get back up for the 2nd...even after burping and changing his diaper).

The other challenge, which is kinda funny, is deciding when to change Kaua's diaper. I swear, as soon as we change one, he's pooping or peeing in the next one. lol. He goes through diapers like crazy that boy. I think this is a good thing though because it means he's getting his nourishment. We've already had two instances of him peeing on us while we change him and one instance of doodoo coming out while we're changing him. It's quite funny. The other thing we're learning is that not all diapers are created equal. Some diapers (namley the Huggies natural we were given) leak. We'll find that most of Kaua's pee is on his clothes rather than in his diaper. The best diaper for us...Pampers swaddlers. We really love that yellow line down the middle of the diaper that changes to blue when its wet. Super helpful!!! And we've had less leaks with this diaper. We have had a couple of diaper explosions though. But I think that's to be expected. And Kaua's bowel movements...man those are loud. His farts rival those of his fathers...it's super funny.

I know, if he finds out I'm writing about all of this when he's older he's going to be so embarrassed. So I guess we'll leave it at that.

The other question...he's still got dry skin. We have bathed him twice in the week and 1 day that he's been home, and I'm thinking I may cut that down too. We're not using soap, just water, but it still dries his skin out...everywhere. I dont think this bothers him though, it just looks funky. Other than the above, baby is doing A-OK, which is what I'm most grateful for.

Crazy news on the home front, but I dont wanna focus on that now. Suffice it to say that we're forced to move everything in 1 and a half weeks, and we still dont know if the escrow will actually go through. grrrrr.