1.19.12

Sleep battles, they continue.  Really don't have much more to say about it.  I'm just done you know?  My mom is staying tonight, which will help, at least J and I will be able to log some solid sleep.

Things are interesting here in Salem town.  The rains have poured down the last few days, and I live in Oregon so when I say poured I mean constant torrential downpour, day and night.  Parts of the city are flooding, the creeks are overflowing, tomorrow the Willamette will most likely overflow in areas, causing more problems and damage.

J stayed late at work today to move files and computers, back up data.  His company leases the old ER from the hospital.  It is next to a creek, part of which runs under the hospital.  The basement of the hospital is flooding and water is beginning to seep into the underground garages.  J's ten minute drive took him an hour tonight because of increased traffic and blocked, flooded roads.  A little further South the flooding is even worse.  The rain has slowed, hopefully it will stop soon.

I had an appointment with my naturopath - Dr. B! - this afternoon.  Her office is forty-five minutes from here, there were a couple high water points where water covered the road, but other than that the drive was okay.  I haven't seen Dr. B since the night we came home from the NICU.  She came to the house to administer vitamin IVs to boost my iron and blood levels.  I love her, I really do.

She said Bennett looks great - we weren't there for him, but she snatched him up and headed back to her office - and promised me he is fine, even if he is small.  She recommended breast milk for the eczema on his face (I think this is contributing to his sleep issues, his poor face itches too much to sleep).  I've been drenching his sweet face in breast milk, guess I'll keep doing it, and hope it helps.

I stocked up on hormone balancing tincture and a tincture to help with the issues I've been having.  Dr. B said my body is constantly shedding the uterine lining, it just can't hold on to it, which is why I am bleeding every two weeks. Too much information?  Sorry.  I'm the one bleeding every two weeks even though I am four months postpartum.  Seriously, done with that too.

It's 8:30, but I am going to bed.  Dr. B says I must sleep more, I'm running my poor self into the ground with the breast feeding and bleeding and being stubborn about B's sleeping.  I was so determined that he would sleep in his crib last night, because he started the night there, but at 2 I laughed at my stubborn self and let him sleep in bed with me.  I must stop obsessing about his sleep, his skin, the way he rubs his eyes ... EVERYTHING.

It will all come right in time.