Diaper Duty

While I was pregnant when I brought up the topic of diaper duty, Paul didn't even want to think about it or talk about it. I said well at least when you're watching Nadia while I'm teaching on Tuesday nights you will have to change her diaper! His first experience changing any diaper came in June in the NICU with Nadia. He actually changed one of her diapers before I did. I figured he needed the practice more than I did, LOL. Well since that point he hasn't complained about changing her diapers. She's been kind enough to time her poopy diapers so that Mommy has changed almost all of them. In fact I don't think he's changed a poopy diaper on his own yet although a couple of times when she had a HUGE one, he did help me out. Anyhow this weekend I heard him say something I never thought he'd say. I took Nadia upstairs to change her diaper. I didn't think to ask him to do it as I figure the only diapers he'll change are when I'm not home. He said to me when I came down that he would have changed it. He said that he doesn't mind changing wet diapers. The way he said it made me think he really wished he had changed her diaper - like he had missed out on something he wanted to do. Wow! I never would have thought he'd feel that way about changing a diaper. I don't expect he'll ever want to change any poopy ones when I'm available, but then again, who really does like changing those??? So I say way to go, Paul! He's such a great Daddy; he even seems to enjoy changing wet diapers. Amazing!!!

Last night Nadia slept a little over 6 hours the first stretch (from 7:15pm to 1:35pm). So I thought it would be a one feeding night. I should stop assuming that, LOL. She woke up about 4:20am which was only a little more than 2 hours since I finished nursing her. I let her cry a little, but at about 4:40 I went and got her and nursed her in bed awhile. Then I put her back down and she slept 90 more minutes (woke up right as I was leaving at 6:40am). I figured it was good if I nursed her once more before I left. I did pump for 10 minutes also before leaving. I am guessing I need to start pumping more if I want to get my milk supply up as drinking more water isn't doing the trick, and I haven't lost (or gained) weight recently so I don't think the problem is that I'm not eating enough. I really don't like pumping, but if pumping will get my milk supply up so that once the semester is over we can wean her off of formula that would be a good thing. I am kicking myself for throwing away all those $5 coupons I had for Enfamil. I falsely assumed those four cans of Similac would be enough. Nope. I already had to buy one can at full price, and I'd love to not buy many more if at all possible. When I start feeling badly about it though I just remind myself that for the first few weeks of the semester I was paying babysitters $72 a week; buying formula is much cheaper than that.