I asked Em's mother to come and stay with us tonight and help with the nighttime feedings. I am literally running on fumes and need one good night's sleep to recharge my batteries. And if you can believe it, I'm considering 4-5 hours of sleep tonight a "good nights sleep." But after a week and a half of nothing but 1 hour or less cat naps, I would sleep in the creek behind the house tonight in order to get some needed rest.
Tomorrow morning our neighbors are coming over and the wife is going to stay with Em while her husband and I go for an 8-10 mile run at the mountain that will also help to get me going again.
So now we discuss the long awaited topic - breastfeeding. After a week of helping Em attempt to train Tyler, I have a whole new perspective on breastfeeding. The mere fact that humans, like other mammals, are able to provide a food source for their newborns in really an amazing thing. It's something that I really took for granted until I spent countless hours with Em this week helping her try to teach Tyler.
Well, long story short, Tyler is technically a premie. So just to get him to stay awake, let alone try to breastfeed, is a big challenge right now. For you mothers out there, our biggest problem is that when do get Tyler to latch on, which is rare, he goes back to sleep. All of this has made me realize why health officials push for breastfeeding, but yet so few women actually do it. It's a tough task to train an infant to feed from his mother. I'm really hoping that Tyler gets a hold on it soon because I know that Em is tired and frustrated and wants to give up at times. I'm doing the best that I can to encourage and help her what little I can with the feedings.
Before I go to bed, here is another picture of Tyler when he was sleeping. He managed to get his hands out of his swaddle and get his mittens off - what a cute little stinker.
Night everyone.
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