Crazy

Today was the longest. day. ever.

I am teaching Princess Camp this week from 9am-1pm, every day.

I am also teaching my Rising Star II camp this week from 2pm-4pm, every day.

I am ALSO teaching my regular classes Wednesday and Thursday from 5:30-7:30pm. I guess that makes Wednesday and Thursday the longest. days. ever. Ugh.

Addison is attending Princess Camp (along with TWENTY ONE other princesses!) and we had a lot of fun together today. I really love being able to be in the studio with her and to teach her. Such a fun experience.

While I'm at camp this week, Aiden is staying home with Mike! He eats from the bottle like a pro! I'm having to pump while at work, which is interesting, but I have a refrigerator up there, so it works out nicely.

Oh, AND, guess what? THE THRUSH IS BACK. Yes, it's BACK. New round of medicine, back to awful and uncomfortable feedings, this is just miserable!

Guess what else?! My fabulous friend Holly is having a GIRL! SO excited for her, it almost makes me forget about the thrushy boobs. tmi? sorry.

Oh, and one more thing. The whole sleeping through the night thing I mentioned a few days ago? Hasn't happened again since I blogged it. So I will not be mentioning anything to do with sleep again, until it is for sure really happening. Otherwise it's just no fun for any of us.

Thrush Update

The disclaimer from my previous post (see below) applies to this post as well.

First of all, thrush is the worst ever. It's so painful. I don't know what it feels like for Aiden, but I do know that it friggin KILLS me.

So, we are treating two ways:

1. Gentian Violet. We got it at People's Pharmacy. It's messy, but supposedly more effective than the Nystatin and Difulcan prescribed by our doctors. The first time we tried out gentian violet, I applied it to my breast before feeding him. This is how that little experiment turned out:



Feeding is very uncomfortable for both of us right now, so he pulls off often, and with the gentian violet on the boob, it ended up all over his face. The good(ish) news: it does wear off. Slowly. This is how it looked last night (we took a little walk. I was praying we wouldn't run into any neighbors.)



2. One day of the mess, and I was over it. I picked up our prescriptions. No more gentian violet for us, thank youverymuch. Welllllll, that is until tonight, when I was in so much pain, I decided I'd "double up" and do both treatments for us. Tonight, I swabbed his mouth with the violet before feeding, which was much less messy. Now his face has a tint of lavendar, and only his mouth is super purple.

Oh my goodness, I hope this goes away soon. Don't want to have to do the gentian violet again. And want to be able to feed sweet Aiden pain free!!

Thrush

Disclaimer: I really don't know who reads this. But if you don't want to hear about breastfeeding and more specifically, my breasts, stop now.

Aiden and I have Thrush. Yuck.

I was wondering why Aiden wasn't feeding well. He kept pulling away from the boob and seemed really uncomfortable. It wasn't just at feeding time that he had been fussy, he's just generally been more fussy all together for the past couple of days. So, upon further review, I noticed some white spots in his mouth today. And started to realize "my breasts have been uncomfortable (read: itchy and burning) lately". I looked thrush up online and excessive gassiness in infants is a symptom too. And, boy, has poor Aiden woken up with bad gas pains lately.

I'm calling the doctor tomorrow. Poor baby. And yes, poor mommy. (see above paragraph, fifth sentence).

Edited to add (because I am a sleep deprived gal who meant to include this in the original post):

I feel like crap. Started last night. Achey, yucky, fever, headache, etc. Today my mom calls and tells me she might have strep throat. And who did I go visit yesterday evening? You guessed it! My mom. So I'm hoping that I just feel yucky and that it's not strep, but if I still feel bad tomorrow I'm calling my doctor.