One Day at a Time...Part One

So, I’ve been gone for a while, and there is a LOT we have to catch up on! I think I will try to post about one day at a time.

Thursday was a rough day for me. That’s putting it VERY mildly! I woke up just before 5:30am feeling…….yucky. I got out of bed and went to the bathroom, and…..there’s just no nice way to put this…..was suddenly violently and explosively sick! Yuck! When I was finally able to, I stepped out of my clothes and got straight into the shower. I didn’t even make it through washing off my body before I felt round two approaching. I also heard J begin to babble on his baby monitor. Rick was out at work that night. I got out of the shower, wrapped a towel around me, stepped over my mess and ran to the other bathroom. Thankfully, I did think to grab my cell phone on the way. I was stuck there for a while. I had to call my mom and ask her to come over and get the baby out of bed. (Let me pause here a moment to say that I have the very best mom in the entire world!) So my mom came and took J home with her. For the next 10 hours, I was up about every 40 minutes to run to the bathroom. In between all I could manage to do was crawl to the couch and sleep. I was alternating between sweating and freezing. I couldn’t even sit up to pump. I cannot remember the last time I was ever that sick. I was finally able to manage myself like a human by about 3:30 in the afternoon. My mom came over in the evening and stayed with me for a while. She had brought me sprite and checked in on me through the day while Grams was at her house with J. She really IS the best momma in the world! I never had a bite to eat that entire day. Being that sick dehydrated me in a hurry! So, lets see, what happens when you combine lack of pumping, lack of calorie intake, and lack of fluid intake? Yep, lack of milk! My supply took a drastic dive! I managed to sleep all night that night and was feeling some better the next morning. We’ll talk about Friday in the next post!