Thursday Thoughts: Nursing Woes

I’m joining Jen at Ramblings of a Suburban Mom for her Thursday Thoughts linkup, so here are some thoughts currently in my head.

When we were getting ready to book flights for Vegas, the were running about $400 each roundtrip for nonstop for the “gotta get away” fare.  On the Southwest website it says the have “reasonable infant rates” available (instead of flying with a lap child for those under age 2), but you had to call to book.  Lo called and it was 15% off the FULL price ticket – which would make it about $900 round-trip for him.  OR we could book an adult ticket for him for $400 roundtrip.  (or he could fly for free on our laps, but we ruled that out for a variety of reasons for this trip).  Why do they even have the “affordable” infant rate available?  It’s pretty much the least affordable option because no one has probably ever paid full-price for a ticket since discounted ones are always available.

We were going over our weekend calendars for the next couple of weeks and we have 1 weekend without any plans until the end of May – and it’s our friend’s birthday weekend, so obviously we are going to save it for her anyway.  It’s not like we are fully booked all weekend, every weekend…but something is on our calendars for each one.  It’s all good stuff though.

I bought some DoTerra Digestzen to try when my stomach gets messed up (from gluten or otherwise).  I wanted to try it one night for the heck of it and put one drop in a full glass of water, and it tasted TERRIBLE! Nearly undrinkable.  The next time I tried a drop in a spoon of honey and it was just slightly better.  Then one night my stomach actually hurt bad and I rubbed a little on it as i was getting ready for bed, and it felt better after a few minutes!  It could have been a placebo effect or just time for the pain to naturally go away, but something worked either way!  I think I’ll buy some empty capsules so I can take it in pill form when needed.

So this week in our volleyball game, my nursing pad fell out of my bra/shirt!  LOL!  One of my teammates pointed to the heart-shaped object on the floor and was like “what’s that?”  I was like – oh, that’s mine -and shoved it back in my bra.  It was pretty funny – though the guys looked a little uncomfortable, lol.  We had a girl subbing with us and she was so confused (bc she didn’t know I had a baby).  She thought I was either stuffing my bra (and wondered why I was using something so thin) or that I had just stuck something in my bra earlier and forgot about it.  I was wearing a new nursing sports bra that I bought at Target…it wasn’t spectacular, obviously.  Back to the drawing board….  I don’t need my sports bra to be a nursing bra, but this seemed like a good option – especially since I try to nurse him immediately before I leave for games.

Speaking of nursing woes, I got mastitis AGAIN!  It wasn’t nearly as bad and I’m pretty much recovered, but it shouldn’t happen multiple times.  So I had an appointment with a lactation consultant…but I’m too tire to write about it right now, so that’s for another day. Unfortunately it’s not a simple fix.

I’m at a loss for what to put on tv for when I stay up late to do stuff on the computer and pump.  I’m watching Call the Midwives and it’s okay, but it’s almost over.  I may have to move on to reality tv.  It can’t be anything i need to pay super-close attention to because I get distracted or leave the room without pausing sometimes.  We already actively watch the good shows.

It snowed again.  Blarg!  Jenson doesn’t even know that warm weather exists because it hasn’t since he’s been alive. And he’s almost 6 months old!  He’s ready though.