While we are on the subject of boobies...

Oh, we weren't? Well we are now...

I was under the assumption that by now my nursing drama would be a thing of the past by now. How wrong was I! While I am over the worst part, I am still very tender and somewhat engorged and (drum roll please) still leaking! What the heck?! It has been over a week and a half! I didn't nurse on demand, I nursed on a pretty strict schedule, so it's not like I was producing mass amounts 24/7. The worst part is that I still can't sleep on my stomach - my position of preference.

The girls are doing great with the whole thing. They have their last bottle at 6:30pm, go down for bed at 6:45 and sleep until 7:45am. They haven't seemed to really care about the bottle.

And, I have to admit that the whole bottle thing is WAY easier (aside from making sure that there are enough clean bottles) When I am short on time, I can put them in their little chairs and run all over the house like a tornado getting things done. It really has opened up my time significantly.

Now I just wish that I could go back to my old bra's without the muffin top...

I know I said I wouldn't talk about it, but...

I lied. Well, it wasn't really a lie since I really hadn't planned on discussing my current situation, but really need some help. And sympathy. Lots of sympathy.

So my friend Kellie thinks I'm nuts-o (for many reasons) but I went cold turkey with the nursing drama. I mean, I had cut down to 2 nursings a day, for a couple of days, and then just quit. So I am very engorged and uncomfortable. This is the way that I did it with both the boys and don't remember it feeling this bad, but then again my memory is foggy on many things (by the way, I think that is God's grace on us as mamas so that we have more than 1 kid). Anyway, I am so uncomfortable. And I forget, how long will this last?

I'm just not sure that this was the best week to stop nursing. Luke got a fever yesterday. I didn't know that he was sick, but I had a feeling that something was up. What really tipped me off was when he got into a fight with his best buddy, Luke LaMar, at the park yesterday. Luke Mad loves his "best buddy" and they normally get along so great and almost never fight. Yeah, so when Luke Mad pushed his best buddy, I knew something was up with that kid. He was up at 3am and Daddy went to the guest bedroom while Luke got in bed with me. Poor thing, he was so uncomfortable, and burning up with fever, that he just tossed and turned until it was time to get up. If I was nursing I would feel much better about the girl's chances of not getting this, but now I am more concerned.

Anyway, I will be thrilled to report when this whole nursing drama is over... and I am sure you will be thrilled when you don't have to hear it anymore!