I know, things have been quiet on the blog front. There are a few different reasons for this, so I wanted to try to give a relatively quick update to explain my absence.
As I’ve discussed before, our daughter’s birth and life since then hasn’t been as smooth as we’d hoped. Our feeding difficulties only increased and we finally had to make the very difficult, but ultimately right decision, to have a feeding tube placed. A month into that, baby girl is thriving. We no longer fight her to feed her. She’s slowly but surely moving up on her growth curve. She no longer sobs when she knows we’re going to feed her. She isn’t currently taking any bottles or really much at all by mouth, but we’re working with a great feeding therapy team and all have high hopes of this all being a thing of the past before we know it. I’ll keep you updated on our progress, but for now, it’s just nice to not dread every feed, to know she’s getting the nutrition she needs, and to still be able to provide her with breastmilk, even if not through the means I would have liked.
On top of all that, Miss E has decided that teething and not sleeping would be a perfect new challenge now that we no longer have to battle her to eat. So…we’re tired. She’s tired. But she’s adorable and her giggles and smiles make it (mostly!) worth the stress.
I’m also working hard on trying to continue growing my business. I have new webinars in the works, my perinatal fitness certification, and a number of new “motherhood” packages I’m developing. It’s quite a process, but I’m really excited to make it happen. As with Miss E, I’ll try to keep you updated on my progress. I know it may take a while, especially because the packages involve some major new additions to my offerings, like lactation cookies and recipe “books”!
I hope you’ve all had a lovely, wonderful end to 2016 and a great, exciting start to 2017. Hoping I’ll be more present again very soon!
As I’ve discussed before, our daughter’s birth and life since then hasn’t been as smooth as we’d hoped. Our feeding difficulties only increased and we finally had to make the very difficult, but ultimately right decision, to have a feeding tube placed. A month into that, baby girl is thriving. We no longer fight her to feed her. She’s slowly but surely moving up on her growth curve. She no longer sobs when she knows we’re going to feed her. She isn’t currently taking any bottles or really much at all by mouth, but we’re working with a great feeding therapy team and all have high hopes of this all being a thing of the past before we know it. I’ll keep you updated on our progress, but for now, it’s just nice to not dread every feed, to know she’s getting the nutrition she needs, and to still be able to provide her with breastmilk, even if not through the means I would have liked.
On top of all that, Miss E has decided that teething and not sleeping would be a perfect new challenge now that we no longer have to battle her to eat. So…we’re tired. She’s tired. But she’s adorable and her giggles and smiles make it (mostly!) worth the stress.
I’m also working hard on trying to continue growing my business. I have new webinars in the works, my perinatal fitness certification, and a number of new “motherhood” packages I’m developing. It’s quite a process, but I’m really excited to make it happen. As with Miss E, I’ll try to keep you updated on my progress. I know it may take a while, especially because the packages involve some major new additions to my offerings, like lactation cookies and recipe “books”!
I hope you’ve all had a lovely, wonderful end to 2016 and a great, exciting start to 2017. Hoping I’ll be more present again very soon!