Six Months

My son is six months old today. Not to brag, but we are still Breastfeeding and cloth diapering. Okay, wait, I am bragging about the Breastfeeding. Many nursing pairs don't make it this far without giving up or supplementing so I am proud. In our new town I get the "look" when we breastfeed in public and I have family members already looking for teeth or solid foods to cut the relationship short.

Off the soap box though, at six months our little boy is playing with solid foods, crawling, babbling like crazy, sitting unsupported, and has two teeth. It seems crazy that only six months ago we were at home with him not sleeping-just watching him in amazement. I had to be convinced to take a shower because I was so afraid to miss one moment.

I love my little boy and the mother he has created out of the woman I was. I love our little family. All that was created at 2:57pm six months ago.

Hurry up UPS Man...

I want the UPS man to hurry...I want my new diaper covers and pail liner. Hurry up man.

In other news, if you are in the Huntsville area, visit A Nurturing Moment. Cloth Diapers and breastfeeding stuff galore. I loved it. I will be back soon to look at night-time diapering options for our little one.

Ordering Fluff

I got to order 4 new diaper covers and a new pail liner today. We are still using our Thirties Duos since I have never had a blow out or leak in them. Just needed size twos. For the record our size ones went to about 13lbs (not the advertised 18) due to the rise. He has a long torso. I am going to post a review of the Planet Wise pail liner when I have used it a few times. I love buying fluff. :)

Doula=Midwife....Um...no?

So I went to the health department a couple of days ago to get my son's immunizations. He was about a month late getting his 4 month round due to the move. I was speaking to the nurse that was giving the shots, and she pointed out that it would not bother her for me to nurse my son after his shots and that she breastfed her children. Well, here I am thinking...Awesome!, this is an open-minded lady (which no one else at the health department seemed to be).

I asked her about how to best reach out to the large community of pregnant teens in our area to offer my doula services (which I will do for free for teen or military moms). She said "Well, most are on Medicaid, so they can have an M.D....they don't need a doula." I was confused, since I don't know what having a doctor has to do with labor support. After a few more exchanges, I realized that she thought a doula is a midwife! While I would love to be a midwife, a doula is nothing close to a midwife.

I explained this difference and she seemed to understand a bit better, but then started to ask why you need more than your husband (this said after she told me how much her husband annoyed her during her births).

I think that educating this area on what a doula is will be more of an uphill battle than I anticipated.