Month 1
Month 6
Pumping
Okay, all male relative have permission to skip this section.
Giving Logan breast milk was very important to me for many of reasons. Before having Logan I thought I could breastfeed if I just stuck with and got help from my doula. I went to the breastfeeding classes at the hospital and read up on it and thought I could do it no problem. But I found it awkward, painful and stressful. I could do it with Allan's help but I was afraid of being at home with a hungry baby and not being able to get him to latch by myself. We had a chat with our doctor who basically said 'having a baby is stressful enough. Any breast milk you can give your baby is a special gift -it doesn't matter how he gets it.' And so I pumped for four months and Logan did not have any formula until he was three months.
Anyone who has pumped breast milk knows it's time consuming -the whole process and sterilizing afterwards...maybe twenty minutes or so, compared to one minute to make a formula bottle. The first month I was pumping five times a day, often when Logan slept. If you look above at Logan's sleep pattens this didn't leave a lot of time for me to sleep. I think this whole thing shows how determined I was and it's something that I'm happy I could give Logan. Would I do it again if I have another baby? Probably not. LOL
Solids
According to our tracker Logan has tried over forty different foods so far!
Diapers
Did we ever change a lot of dirty diapers at the very beginning! Since the start of tracking we have recorded 832 diaper changes. Only maybe fifty were cloth diapers but I am happy to say that amazingly Markham composts their diapers.
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2 comments:
Thank you for your post on the Trixie Tracker! It's amazing to see the difference from Month 1 to Month 6 in sleep patterns. I started tracking my daughter about the same time you did (1 month) and now we're almost 3 months old and just finally slept through the night the past two nights. I love TT and am looking forward to when my stats look similar to yours! Thanks for the post!
Thanks so much for sharing all the ins and outs of your experience. I love seeing the charts and reading about your approach and your understanding of the data.
I'd love to point to this post from our review page if you don't mind. Thanks again!
Ben MacNeill
Founder, Trixie Tracker
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