BIOBaby: Sleep When He Sleeps

Donny is an ass man.

His son is a breast man.

All this kid wants to do is nurse. He wakes up smacking his lips and trying to eat anything near his face. When I pick him up I kiss him and he tries to suck on my lips, chin, and cheeks. He tries to suck on his shirts and fists. When Donny is caring him he turns his face towards Donny’s chest and when he realizes there isn’t anything there to feed him he has a fit.

I have to mentally prep myself before he latches on because that shit hurts! It’s the first ten to twenty suckles and then I don’t even realize he’s there. I can read and watch TV while he eats with no problem. I started taking the advice of one of my baby books and I will occasionally night nurse him. If he wakes up in the middle of the night and wants a feeding I’ll nurse from my right breast first, and then because of my position on the bed I’ll lay down and nurse him from my left. We’ll usually end of falling asleep that way.

He only woke up twice last night so I woke up this morning really engorged. The first thing I did was pump. I got about 2 ounces from each breast. We’re storing it in the fridge, but because he is now not accepting bottle nipples I may just freeze it and use it in his baby food when I start making it at six months old.

Since Donny is getting up at 6:30 to get Kali ready for school I’ve gotten better at not waking him up at night to help with Jack. Because I still have a little pain when I walk we try to have everything I might need within reach before bed so he doesn’t have to get up and get anything for me. I knew these late nights were taking their toll on Donny after what happened the other night….

Sometimes our internet will drop and we’ll have to go reset the router which is in the guest bedroom. We’ll pull a plug from the back of the box, wait a few seconds, and then plug it back in. The other night Jack had just fallen asleep and I jumped in the laptop to find the internet was down. I asked Donny to go reset the router. He was down there for like an hour and a half. Because Jack was sleeping I didn’t want to call for him. Eventually Jack woke up, and I nursed him, and then we both fell asleep. When Donny finally came upstairs I was like, “What the hell happened to you?”

Turns out he fell asleep. He said he unplugged the router and the next thing you know he was waking up on the guest bed and it scared the shit out of him. He said it took him a moment to figure out where the hell he was and what he was doing.  I knew then the poor man needed a break.

The swelling has gone away and so far the only side effect from nursing while taking the medicine (I’m done taking it) is that Jack seemed to have really bad gas and a lot of runny poop. Fucking Lasix!  We were in the doctor’s office exam room waiting for the doctor when he got hungry. So, I’m sitting there nursing him and Donny is sitting next to me. Jack is naked except for his diaper because he was just weighed and the doctor has to check him. While he’s nursing he farts. It was this long rumbling, thundering, no way this came out an ass just a week old, fart.

“Jack!,” I cried out by way of admonishment.

At the same moment Donny goes, “Did someone knock?” He thought someone had knocked on the door.

“No, that was your son farting.”

“Damn, Jack. I thought someone knocked on the door.”

And then we just busted out laughing. We must have laughed for a full two minutes and I tried to stop because I was feeding Jack and he and my booby were just bouncing around. It’s silly moments like that that we’ll always remember.

They say you should sleep when the baby sleeps. Since Jack sleeps more during the day than night I thought that I would try changing his schedule. I’d try making him stay awake during the day so that he’d have no choice but to sleep at night. Uh, no. Do you know how hard it is to keep a newborn awake?  It’s not like he’s a toddler or a kid like Kali where you can put on some cartoons or take them out somewhere to entertain them and keep them awake. Since I can’t beat him, I might as well join him. After I type this and finish my lunch of tuna fish sandwich and cranberry juice, I’ll lay down next to him and try and nap. Of course, the moment my head hits the pillow he’ll wake up. That’s how he rolls.