1st Father's Day!

Happy First Father's Day to Derek!!! We also want to wish our Fathers and Grandfathers a Happy Father's Day!!! Enjoy it!!

New Pictures

Recent pictures of Alexis taken this week (2 Months 3 Weeks Old)

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More Pictures and Playtime

Here are some more recent pictures (from this week) of Alexis!

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Congratulations

Alexis wants to congratulate Aunt Ashley and Uncle Kyle on graduating University yesterday! She is very proud of you both!

She also wants to congratulate Aunt Tanya on getting engaged to Jason this past weekend!

New Pictures

Here are some recent pictures that I promised, Alexis is now starting to hold her head up really well! It's not as "floppy" anymore, and she's able to sit in her Bumbo chair pretty well! She's found her hands and for majority of the day has them in her mouth and is drooling all over the place!

Yesterday we went to the States to do some shopping for the first time, so it was Alexis first trip out of Canada, and she did pretty well. We got her lots of cute clothes (I can't help myself when they are so dirt cheap there) and we bought her an exersaucer that will allow her to get more activity (she will probably be able to use it in a couple weeks).

Things are Looking Up!

So I'm not sure if it has to do with all my pumping sessions or the herbs and water intake, but today I actually noticed quite a difference in my milk supply! Thank god! I have quite a few bottles ready in the fridge and was even able to freeze a bag because I had left overs! After thinking about it, I am going to continue to supplement 1 oz. with formula in her bottles, because eventually this is what she will get when I finally decided to stop pumping. My new goal is to make it to 3 months, and I will reassess then how much longer I want to go.

I know I said I would add pictures, but I haven't had the time lately, and have been so dead tired with all the pumping and playing with Alexis that any chance during the day I get now, I have been napping. They will get up though!

We've Got Trouble ...

So the last week I've been experiencing a drop in my breast milk supply. For whatever reason, I'm not pumping out as much as I was able to before, and since Alexis is eating more now, we've got some serious problems. I talked with nurse from the Health Unit, and she suggested pumping more often, as well as continue taking the herbs and medication my doctor had already prescribed me. She also thinks I should try renting one of the hospital pumps to see if they make a difference, but in the meantime if I'm not getting enough for Alexis bottles I am to top them up with formula. This really upsets me. I wanted to pump for as long as I could, but probably eventually stop around 5-6 months to start to introduce formula and baby cereal and eventually baby food. But not it looks like Alexis could possibly be on formula sooner, if things to get back to normal. I'm glad that she's getting the breast milk because its good for her and has all those nice antibodies, and I feel like I'm letting her down ... but the health nurse assured me that some mom's that breastfeed don't last as long as I do and I've been pumping since the first week. Anyways, that's just a little update on what's been going on here. I will keep you posted, so far, since I've now been pumping every 2 hours I get enough to ensure she has a bottle, but I don't know how long I can go doing this as its taking a toll on my body and sleep (I hardly are getting any since I have to get up every 2 hours during the night to pump ... and last night Alexis slept for 7 hours! but I didn't even get to enjoy it because I was up twice pumping ... uggghhh)