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Did you hear I had hives for a week awhile back? It randomly started one Sunday morning. I got up, fed Harper and was playing with Lainey when I noticed that my legs were kind of itchy. I was still in my nightgown and when I looked down, I saw this:
I went to two different doctors but was told by both that we probably wouldn't figure out what I was having an allergic reaction to and they gave me a steroid prescription. Then I went to my Ob/Gyn for my yearly and she said her best friend is an allergist and I needed to change my body wash. So I bought some Aveeno for sensitive skin and the hives went away. Go figure!
In other health news, I've had a cold for about two months. When my face hurt to the touch for far too long, I finally decided to go to the doctor. Just as I suspected, it's a sinus infection which I think is actually good news because that means I can take something to get better. So hopefully by this weekend I'll be feeling a lot better!
Random, but...I don't know why I keep trying Applebee's. I have never liked anything I've gotten from there and I'm sitting here now with a gross taste in my mouth even after brushing my teeth. Not that it has turned me off of eating. Which leads to my next tidbit...
I've not only fallen off the exercise wagon but it has left me in the dust. The elliptical that my wonderful husband bought me for Mother's Day (...) now serves as a large coat rack in the garage. Even worse than my slacking off on the exercise is Troy's diligence with it. He gets up nearly every day at 5:30 to either run or work out in the garage. He's probably in the best shape of his life and I'm in the worst. I know I'm probably a little neurotic, but I'm kind of afraid to work out. And not for any normal reason, but because I think it will affect my milk production. How many skinny cows have you ever seen??
And because I know y'all have been missing my updates on the girls, let's talk about how nursing's going. I bet you thought I was talking about Lainey & Harper right there but I was talking about my boobies. (Hold your horses...I'll give you an update on those girls in a minute.) Things are going pretty well but I'm gradually getting less & less milk when I pump. Back during my weird week of hives and the persistence of this "cold", the Benadryl, Sudafed and steroid have taken their toll. I've been taking fenugreek which has helped but I never have gotten back up to what I was producing before. Bring crazy busy at work isn't helping matters either but I've been determined to make the time to pump. This is about when things started to taper off with Lainey too. I had to start supplementing with formula with her around 7 months and about a month later, I had stopped nursing totally. I don't know why I'm getting so upset over it. My goal with both girls was to make it to 6 months which isn't going to be a problem with Harper. I guess I just had it in my head that this time around, I would make it to a year because it's been going so well. And who knows...maybe I will! But however long I can make it, I need to stop beating myself up about it and be happy that I've done this well.
Okay, I feel a little better after that little pep talk. And I know you feel better now that you know the status of my milk production. So...on to the other girls, shall we?
Lainey is getting SO BIG. Really...she is truly a kid now, not my little baby! Her mullet just won't quit so she had to have another trim recently. She is loving "school" and comes home signing all these funny little songs and telling me about her day: "T____ pushed me, Mommy! That not nice. I tell him, 'T____, you no push me!" She is definitely in her "twos" and it is definitely challenging. Like Troy says, she is either the sweetest thing ever or else she is just awful and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of in between. But she is always super cute. I mean, check her out rocking with Elmo:
Harper is also getting too big too fast. What happened to my baby girls?? Harper is at a cute stage. She gives the biggest smiles whenever anyone pays her any attention (especially Lainey). She is so chubby and has cute pudgy rolls and big blue eyes (so basically, she looks like her Mommy!).
So I think that hits the high spots of what I've been up to lately. Hopefully the next time I post I will be all healthy and stuff. Who knows...maybe I will even feel up to working out!
