AmyB1978
Proud Mama to Emily
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Here is a sneak preview of Emily's Easter Basket... I will post pictures of Emily in her bib, with her basket, etc later this morning on Facebook.
Emily is being a good girl and sleeping at the moment but I'm not asleep... go figure!
She went to bed awhile ago and I stayed up to eat a late dinner and get some things done. The next thing I knew it was time for her to eat again, so she just did and I just laid her back down.. I need to join her in slumber land soon!
DH and I have started talking a little bit about my going back to work, even just VERY part time (a 6 hour Saturday a week possibly being my only day working) and I think it has raised my anxiety about leaving Emily as I have been on edge and having nightmares about her, last night I woke up sobbing thinking about going back to work, even for only 6 hours a week! I had no idea how very protective and attached I would feel... I thought I knew, but the love I have for that child is way more than I ever could have imagined!
She has been doing a lot better with sleep... going longer in between feeding at night and going back to sleep easier but is still pretty unpredictable. Sadly now that she is sleeping better and I am getting more sleep I feel more tired and worse. The woman who runs the postpartum group I am in told me that just shows how far behind I am with sleep, that I can't "catch up." I am sure I will soon, especially if she continues to do as well (or better) as she has been! A start of a schedule/pattern is forming for sure... not necessarily exact times but a pattern of sleep/wake/etc. It varies and is subject to change but it is definitely forming!
Today DH and I went and got me an iPad mini!!! I had Birthday money from last July as well as Christmas money that I hadn't used and had been kind of wanting one. We were also able to get a discount on it because he works for Apple and gets a decent discount one one per year! Sadly, we don't have all the apple products (before me he basically had none) but I am working on changing that!
Now that I am home, and breastfeeding all the time, etc, I barely use my computer and have been doing almost everything on my ipod which was okay but really too small to want to be on all the time so I decided to treat myself and go ahead and get it. (saying that, I am actually posting this from my computer at the moment! ) I like it so far, it is slightly harder to handle then my iPod (because of it's size) while feeding her but I think I will get the hang of it. It is definitely better then trying to be on the computer when I am doing things with her (feeding, burping, holding, etc!) I figure if nothing else in a few years it will be a great distraction for Miss Emily on the plane when we are going to visit my family! (And I may start just taking it instead of my computer since I will be bringing a baby and all her gear when I fly now!) After we picked up the iPad we went to lunch and I got the experience of nursing in REAL public for the first time! She woke up towards the end of our meal so I took her, changed her, put my nursing cover on and let her eat. It was a little unsettling but not too bad... we'd asked for a booth so we would, at least, not be in the middle of the restaurant! 
I don't think we will be doing anything for Easter as we haven't seen the neighbors again and haven't been invited anywhere else. I think we will just have a quiet day at home as a family and get lots of pictures of Miss Emily's First Easter!
Hope (I just typed Hoppy) LMAO
you have a Happy Easter!!!! Or Hoppy Easter! 
Emily is being a good girl and sleeping at the moment but I'm not asleep... go figure!
She went to bed awhile ago and I stayed up to eat a late dinner and get some things done. The next thing I knew it was time for her to eat again, so she just did and I just laid her back down.. I need to join her in slumber land soon!DH and I have started talking a little bit about my going back to work, even just VERY part time (a 6 hour Saturday a week possibly being my only day working) and I think it has raised my anxiety about leaving Emily as I have been on edge and having nightmares about her, last night I woke up sobbing thinking about going back to work, even for only 6 hours a week! I had no idea how very protective and attached I would feel... I thought I knew, but the love I have for that child is way more than I ever could have imagined!
She has been doing a lot better with sleep... going longer in between feeding at night and going back to sleep easier but is still pretty unpredictable. Sadly now that she is sleeping better and I am getting more sleep I feel more tired and worse. The woman who runs the postpartum group I am in told me that just shows how far behind I am with sleep, that I can't "catch up." I am sure I will soon, especially if she continues to do as well (or better) as she has been! A start of a schedule/pattern is forming for sure... not necessarily exact times but a pattern of sleep/wake/etc. It varies and is subject to change but it is definitely forming!
Today DH and I went and got me an iPad mini!!!
I had Birthday money from last July as well as Christmas money that I hadn't used and had been kind of wanting one. We were also able to get a discount on it because he works for Apple and gets a decent discount one one per year! Sadly, we don't have all the apple products (before me he basically had none) but I am working on changing that! Now that I am home, and breastfeeding all the time, etc, I barely use my computer and have been doing almost everything on my ipod which was okay but really too small to want to be on all the time so I decided to treat myself and go ahead and get it. (saying that, I am actually posting this from my computer at the moment! ) I like it so far, it is slightly harder to handle then my iPod (because of it's size) while feeding her but I think I will get the hang of it. It is definitely better then trying to be on the computer when I am doing things with her (feeding, burping, holding, etc!) I figure if nothing else in a few years it will be a great distraction for Miss Emily on the plane when we are going to visit my family! (And I may start just taking it instead of my computer since I will be bringing a baby and all her gear when I fly now!) After we picked up the iPad we went to lunch and I got the experience of nursing in REAL public for the first time! She woke up towards the end of our meal so I took her, changed her, put my nursing cover on and let her eat. It was a little unsettling but not too bad... we'd asked for a booth so we would, at least, not be in the middle of the restaurant! I don't think we will be doing anything for Easter as we haven't seen the neighbors again and haven't been invited anywhere else. I think we will just have a quiet day at home as a family and get lots of pictures of Miss Emily's First Easter!
Hope (I just typed Hoppy) LMAO
you have a Happy Easter!!!! Or Hoppy Easter! 
xx
how are you doing hun? Xx
