Yesterday I did something that made me feel like a gold-medal breastfeeder. (Cue Olympic theme song!) I was running around, trying to get everything ready for Cakie’s Diego 3rd birthday party. (I’ll upload a shot of the Diego cake later. I’m no Charlotte, but I can bake a theme cake!) So I was running around while the baby napped. Then he woke up. I threw on the Moby Wrap – a sort-of body macrame baby wearing device, and continued my running around with Trucker tied onto me, so I could use both of my hands. (If you watch the video link, you’ll see that you can’t really “throw” it on. Imagine me doing it while the baby cries, and the wrap looks all sort of twisted and unkempt.) Usually, he just falls asleep in the wrap, but this time he was making little grunting noises. When I looked down, I saw that he was attempting to nurse through my nursing tank. My bo0b was all slobbery. So I said, “Ok. You want to try that, huh?” I undid that side of my tank and actually nursed the baby in the wrap!!!! While I continued running around getting ready for the party. I felt like super mom. I felt like I should have been on the cover of a magazine, or something.
I have to say that the source of my breastfeeding angst is not so much the baby, as it is my right breas.t. It still hurts a lot. I think it keeps getting clogged ducts or almost-clogged ducts. But I can’t help but think that I could do something differently to avoid that, you know? Plus a good friend of mine’s wife got breast cancer shortly after giving birth to their second child. She’s in complete remission, thank goodness, but I can’t help but think that there is only so much battering a poor breast can take. The rational part of my brain is pretty sure the birth of her child and the breast cancer are unrelated. But sometimes the irrational part of my brain is a hell of a lot louder than that meek little sensible part.
I’ll just try to focus on the breastfeeding in the Moby Wrap part. Because that rules.
8 Comments
August 14, 2008 at August 14, 2008
You rock! That’s so awesome!!
August 14, 2008 at August 14, 2008
Way to go Super Mom! That rocks!
August 14, 2008 at August 14, 2008
Wow, that is really impressive!
August 15, 2008 at August 15, 2008
Well, my mind is officially boggled.
That must be some suction the Trucker has!
August 15, 2008 at August 15, 2008
Supermum!
August 15, 2008 at August 15, 2008
You rock, mama! I gave up on the Moby within 20 minutes.
One thing that helped when I had a clogged duct was cold cabbage leaves. They fit perfectly and I slept with them too.
I also pumped a lot and kept trying to squeeze my breast from the top to the nipple.
Just apply the leaf to the boob and instantly you feel some relief.
I was told by our midwife that it has some type of special affect that actually causes your ducts to empty and unclog.
August 15, 2008 at August 15, 2008
Two things are supermom material, breastfeeding in a carrier and making a diego cake. I love the idea of the moby, but it does look as confusing as hell.
August 17, 2008 at August 17, 2008
I really like the Moby. The only thing that sucks is that it does take an extra moment to put it on, and that moment seems awfully long when a screaming baby is involved. I put it in second place after the Ergo. But the Ergo with the infant insert is too weird for me.
Shawna, I actually have a head of cabbage at home… four hours from here. But my b00b is feeling a little better now.