Foooooood

[ailbhe]

Here I am breastfeeding a newborn again.

FEED ME.

I am barely functional and hugely short-tempered, most days, and it's entirely due to inadequate food intake. I can't do anything needing two hands because if I put Astrid in a sling she spits up on me, but she also doesn't want to be laid flat on her back because that makes her spit up too. We need to buy a reclining bouncy chair device. I'm sure we used to have one but Rob can't find it in the attic and we may have given it away.

For brief periods (long enough to put something oven-ready in or out of the oven) her sisters can prop her up, so oven-ready things are fine. But even cutting a bagel in half can be a problem, unless she's asleep.

I really need to figure something out. We need oven-ready dinners for evenings, which are easy enough, but we also need something ready to eat lunchwise. We tried reversing it, but it takes Rob just as long to get a bunch of sandwiches ready in the evening (when I'm feeding the baby more or less constantly) as it does to get a basic cooked dinner. And that makes the evening meal too late.

Weekends spent cooking things up are the answer for the evening meal... but what about snacks and lunchtime?

I bet by the time I have this figured out she'll have stopped eating so much. Two days now, maybe three, she's eaten almost constantly from noon to 7pm, sometimes eating in her sleep. As I said earlier, if she doesn't weigh 13lb by Monday I'll send her back.

Comments

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

Oh honey, I wish I knew the answer to this because I felt the SAME WAY. Still do occasionally.

Fruit delivery? Some pre-made stuff even though it's against what you usually do? Even a case of pre-made smoothies or something?

Have Rob preslice a dozen bagels in the evening so that during the day all you have to do is grab it? Have him pre-slice cheese and/or other things to put on bagels and have them in the fridge and then you just have to assemble one-handed?

N.

[ailbhe]

Part of the thing, I have realised, is that I feed the children first, and then am too tired to feed myself. Ha ha. Yeah. That's really clever.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

I do this too! Oy.

Put up a note that says "A fed Ailbhe = well-fed & cared for Children. Feed Ailbhe first for now!"

N.

[ailbhe]

I should tell the children that when I get cross they should tell me to eat, too. Definitely.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Have you tried drinking a lot of fruit juice? It would at very least help keep your blood sugar levels higher.

[ailbhe]

I do drink some first thing but I need to be careful not to, um, mess around with the long-term effects of the injuries from the first birth. Fruit juice affects my digestion...