Shawna’s Whimsical Weblog

I love not being pregnant. I have traded in the third trimester maladies: exhaustion, heartburn, having to pee every few minutes, backaches and swelling into postnatal maladies: exhaustion, difficulty walking (stitches + general trauma), lochia bleeding, and lack of any core muscle strength. However, there is nothing but an upside to not being pregnant. All of these current ailments will pass within a month or two and I never have to be pregnant again.

Last go round, I was able to turn all my pregnancy weight into baby. I’m curious to see if this will happen again. Liana is not a great eater. She falls asleep on the boob a lot and sometimes she’ll be wide awake and still only feed from one side. Let’s start from the beginning. I think I weighed 178 lbs before delivery. I was able to weight myself again on one of the patient beds in the hospital 2 days after Liana was born. I weighed 164 lbs. I think it’s good we don’t own a scale. I think the lack of progress on weight loss would just be discouraging. I have my postpartum check-up on March 18th. I’m hoping that should be a sufficient amount of time to actually see a drop in weight. I did go to my first postnatal yoga class yesterday and should be able to attend on a regular basis.

Liana started at 6 lbs 10 oz. She dropped down to 6 lbs 5 oz 3-4 days after birth, but hopefully has been gaining in weight since then. While she may not be a great eater in my mind, she does pee and poop aplenty. That makes me think that she is eating what her body needs. My milk came in 2 days after birth, instead of 5 days. I’m trying not to be as neurotic about breastfeeding this time around. I won’t be going to weigh her in-between doctor visits at a breastfeeding support group. Her next check-up is this Friday. I’ll update this log then.

2/17/10: @*$#&! I woke up with heel pain in my left foot. If I have plantar fasciitis again, I’m going to be pissed. I have started on stretching, icing and wearing arch support all the time in hopes that I might nip this in the bud. I’ll have to wait a few days before I can really conclude anything.

2/18/10: Happy 35th Birthday Tim!

2/19/10: Liana checked out great at her appointment. She is up to 7 lbs, 8 oz (+1 lb 3 oz in 2 weeks). They typically want the baby gaining 1/2 lb per week. She won’t need to be seen again until her 2 month check-up.