Mastitis

Most people get Mastitis within the first 2-3 weeks of breastfeeding but I'm one of the "lucky" ones who somehow got it after 10 months of breastfeeding. Go me. Last Monday (I think), I woke up with a blocked duct and I didn't think much of it because I do get them occasionally but the babe always gets them out. I can even remember not really thinking that much about it because it didn't hurt that much, yes it was uncomfortable but not too noticeable. That afternoon I knew the blockage was still there so I repeatedly nursed on that side while praying I wouldn't get a blockage in the other breast. Oh the joys.

The blockage refused to go away so I took a bath while EA napped and expressed as much as I could in the beyond hot water. I was desperate and growing more desperate as the minutes ticked. I tried pumping, nursing, expressing, massaging, heat, and nothing worked. I began to not feel good but I wasn't dying, you know?, and so I kept pumping, nursing, expressing, massaging to no avail. The hubs had to go to the funeral home because his cousin's grandfather died so he took EA and I took another bath because I was FREEZING! I expressed and massaged. My breast was so sore from expressing and massaging and nursing that I couldn't tell if the blockage was still there or not so when he returned I asked him to see if the blockage was out because I could no longer tell. He happily obliged and to my dismay IT was still there! It was at this point, I felt as if I was dying so I posted on facebook for help, advice, anything at this point. My doctor's lovely nurse (who is the best nurse ever!) suggested massaging while nursing and whatdaya know....it WORKED! No more blockage but I did end up having to sweat my 103 degree fever out during the course of the night.

When my breastfeeding journey began (seconds after she was born), I never thought I would dread seeing the end of it as the one year mark quickly approaches, but I do. It breaks my heart but I'm not going to be that mother breastfeeding her five year old y'all! haha!

I rarely take photos of her breastfeeding unless I'm totally covered up and I doubt you want to see them anyways! haha! But here are a few of my girl and me!

1st Birthday Decisions

A couple of months ago, I wrote about First Birthday Blues and I've finally decided on a theme TWO months later and ONE month before she is ONE year old! Gosh, Where does the time go??? So the theme is........

A LUAU!!!!

 

We are having her party on Memorial Day and I thought it would be a great day and way to get our families together because the Hub's family ALWAYS gets together for holidays and Memorial Day is no different. We took EA swimming a few weeks ago and she loved it!

So I thought a great way to celebrate her FIRST birthday would be a swimming party and then the Luau theme emerged and I've been excited ever since! I've scoured the internet trying to find a cake I like and I finally found one!

http://blog.hwtm.com/2012/03/hawaiian-luau-inspired-birthday-party/

I like how they used hula skirts to decorate the food table and I plan on doing the same thing.

http://blog.hwtm.com/2011/08/vibrant-colorful-aloha-summer-birthday/

And these are the cutest party favors:

http://blog.hwtm.com/2011/08/vibrant-colorful-aloha-summer-birthday/

 

I can't wait to get started and make my thoughts come to life! It is such a bittersweet time. I still can't believe my baby is almost one. It seems like I just had her yesterday and yet other times it seems like she has been a part of our lives for ever! We love her SO much!

Cornhole

If you haven't heard of cornhole and you live in South Georgia you must be living under a rock or something because it is the tailgating game that has become a sport. These people are serious about this stuff and a huge tournament came to our sweet city and the hubs participated in it. We had a blast inspite of him losing and it was fun to see how he measured up to competitors from all over the United States. Considering that he rarely practices he did pretty good. Here are some pics! Enjoy!

 It started raining, so we moved inside.

 There were just a few folks there. haha!

The sun started shining so we moved outside again!

 EA and I played while Daddy played. =)

 That hair drives me insane but she refuses to keep a bow in her hair so what do you do?

 Chillaxin' between games.

 Hubs is wearing the white shirt.

FUN FUN FUN!

Weigh Less Wednesday

I dreaded stepping on the scale this morning. I haven't worked out since Friday. We had a big Easter weekend (pictures coming soon, I promise!) and then Monday I had Mastitis (a whole other blog post that is surely blog worthy, I thought I was DYING!), and yesterday I spent trying to catch up everything from Monday so working out fell right off of my list of things to do. However, I did manage to lose

1.5 lbs!

 

So my total weight loss in 4 weeks is 9 lbs. Not to shabby but I would love to double that in the next four weeks. Here's to hoping and working my butt off!

Weight: 188.5 lbs (Starting weight 197.5)



Happy Easter!

No time to write much today! But I hope you and yours had a wonderful Easter!!!

Sleeping Beauty

I love how she crosses her little feet! Such a little lady!

Fun Day at the Park

We've been trying to decide if we should get EA a swingset for her first birthday so we took her to the park down from our house to see how she liked it. She wasn't so sure of the swings or slides but she did have fun watching the other little kids! She is such a social butterfly!

But we decided to postpone the swingset until she shows a little more interest in it. I've got my eye on this for her first birthday, Whatcha think?