Sorry for the late post guys! I’ve been going through a bit of postpartum, but with my parents here I am feeling much better so decided to get my post on!
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| On the left is a bottle with colostrum and the right has breastmilk |
After delivering, we were elated and those feel-good hormones were steadily flowing so I barely felt anything as Dr. Taylor was stitching up my rippage. It was about 20 stitches down there so Isaac got me pretty good! I was also holding him at the same time, allowing for skin-to-skin contact. This is a bonding time for you and your baby. He was directly on my chest and this was also my first attempt at breastfeeding him. I was told that by doing this our hormones were synchronizing with one another, which would then signal to my body the need to produce breast milk. For the first 3-4 days, I didn’t produce breast milk, but my baby was getting the necessary nutrients through the colostrum from my breasts. We knew this because he was soiling his diapers and he barely lost any weight after delivery. I thought I would produce breast milk right away, so when my lactation consultant told me about this I was shocked.
Prior to giving birth, we decided that I would breastfeed our baby for 1 year. The benefits are awesome for baby and for you! Breastfeeding provides all the nutrients and vitamins your baby needs, it helps stave off illnesses, builds up their immune system, helps with colic, and prevents ear infections, just to name a few of the benefits for your baby. It helps you by creating more of a bond with your little one, tightens your uterus faster, allowing you to lose the baby weight a lot quicker and if you want the extra boobage this increases that significantly!
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| Here is what the mesh undies looked like! |
Once we were all cleaned up, we were moved from labor to what our hospital called family center. We were here for 3 days and learned so much during this time! Our nurses were so helpful and we asked them tons of questions! It was also during this time that I started to feel the pangs from delivery and let me tell you, I hated it! Tmi moment! So I loved loved loved not having a cycle for the time I was preggers and then to go from that to having blood pour out me like a faucet, wearing these mesh undie shorts with an ice pack in them and a pad that was huge, let’s just say it was really uncomfortable and gross! It made me not want to use the restroom, but make sure you do or else you’ll pee yourself because your muscles down there don’t work at this time, lol! (Trust me; it’s happened to me several times, where I was scurred to cough hard or sneeze!) So gotta get your kegels on! It was a process each time, where I had to squirt myself with warm water, put this cleanser on, squirt again, dry, put new ice pack, new pad, new undies and all the while try not to get blood all over the place or mess with my stitches. It was just disgusting and such an ordeal!!! I hated it so much that I would try to hold it in for as long as I could and then have to run to the bathroom or else go on myself, which also happened, smh! Thank goodness for the mega pad! So yeah, don't do that!
Besides my physical ailments, most was not bad while in family center because I definitely fell I love all over again and got my grub on! The food was surprisingly yummy! Too bad, they only gave me food and not the hubby, so he had to go out and get food while I ate. It was also during this time in family center that we had guests come visit like my besties, sister, nephew, both of our parents and friends. It is a joyous time and one that eases you into parenthood. I kept Isaac with me and felt such a strong connection with him immediately. My love was already so intense and it grows more and more each day!
Next post I’m going to talk about coming home and the do’s and don’ts!
