Operation Increase Milk Supply

I am a Stay At Home Mom, my "9-5" is my kids...so my latest adventure in motherhood is researching and implementing ways to increase my milk production, I know, exciting stuff right?!?! Gibson will be 9 months old on May 3rd, and I have been exclusively pumping milk for him since he was about 2 weeks old. I planned on breastfeeding him like I did with my daughter, but he had other plans. Pumping is quite time consuming but I decided I would keep doing it for as long as possible, breast milk is what is best for him so I will do what I can to make sure he gets it. Fast forward to the present, my milk supply isn't what it used to be so it has become apparent that if I don't make some changes quickly I won't have enough milk for him. I think I forgot to mention my goal is to make it a year, a year of only breast milk. This is what I have been doing, I have noticed a slight increase in production but I am hoping for a more significant increase soon, I am not going down with out a fight!!

-eat a bowl of oatmeal every day
-drink lots of water
-drink a cup of Mother's Milk Tea morning and night
-pump more often and for a longer period of time
-take Fenugreek tablets 3 times a day

Something else I am keeping in my back pocket, a little gem called Lactation Cookies...they look oh so delicious, but I think I will try other avenues before I start incorporating daily cookie eating into my diet ;)

So there you go folks, if anyone has any lactating questions, please feel free to ask...this is my life right now, would love to help another mama out if I can!

Howdy!

Walk & Play

I loaded up the kids today and headed to Town Lake for a walk to the Zilker Playground to play and walk back. We just took off the car seat attachment on the stroller so Gibson is a big boy now sitting right next to his sister and he loves it! The kids did great on the walk, I am just bummed that pretty soon it will get too hot for me to do that, unless I head out early in the morning...which is difficult to do with 2 little ones! On a side note, Harper is requesting her sunglasses on a regular basis now, whenever it's sunny she says "oh mommy, it's sunny, I need my sunglasses". I don't know what I am going to do with that girl.

Easter Fun 2012

Our Easter weekend was packed with lots of fun this year! It started for Harper earlier in the week when she had a fun Easter Party at school and went on an Easter Egg Hunt with her friends!! On Saturday morning we met up with friends at another Easter Egg Hunt, Harper was more into it this year but only for a short amount of time...then the playground was much more interesting! On Easter morning Harper had fun looking for eggs in the house that the Easter Bunny left and the kids opened their Easter baskets...after that we celebrated Easter with friends, we had brunch and hung out in their beautiful backyard and enjoyed the gorgeous weather! Gibson also had a fun first Easter and was full of smiles all weekend long! We also enjoyed a yummy ham, potato casserole and broccoli for dinner at our casa. Happy Easter y'all!

Water Table!

Hard to believe it's already been 8 months....

LOVE this pic of Granny & Gibson...just found it on my phone!

Harper vs. Gibson @ 8 months

Holy moly, I'm 8 months old today!

I'm trying really hard to crawl, starting to pull myself up on things, I eat all the time and I am working on my top 2 teeth!

Mommy & Gibson