Having children that are older this time around is pretty interesting when it comes to breast-feeding. Jake was too little when Sam was born to care. Now, they are all sorts of intruiged by this crazy concept.
There's no such thing as privacy in my house so the whole blanket for modesty thing didn't last very long. They were always trying to sneak peeks like I was hiding Christmas presents under there or something. Course then after they found out EXACTLY how Emily ate, I was (and still am) peppered with questions on the subject. Like, "Why doesn't she just drink the milk out of the fridge like we do?" "She can go a whole year on just breast-milk? How? Doesn't she get hungry?"
Sam just the other day during breakfast, voiced his concern that I didn't drink enough milk. Ya know, so that I would have enough in my body to feed the baby? This was before I explained to him that my body works like a cow converting food to milk. His face, after that bombshell of information sank in, was priceless. Like I was magic! Now when he comes to sit by me while feeding Emily he quietly muses to himself what she's eating. Roast and potatoes? Cereal?
I have one breast that is slightly larger than the other. When it's full of milk and the other one isn't, the size difference is pretty drastic. It's been affectionately nicknamed "The Big Gulp."
This is all so new and weird for me having my kids ask such funny questions. I am the youngest of my family so I never watched my mom take care of another baby. It's hard for me to gauge how much is too much information to give siblings. I just hope they don't end up freaked out about boobs cause they know what they are used for when a baby comes. I guess a good rule of thumb in the end would be don't tell them anything I don't want anyone else to know. Cause if kids are good at one thing, it's hangn' all your dirty breast-milk stained laundry out to dry!
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Rori just called them my bellies. Funny stuff! Congrats your little one! The curiosity will wane with time.
Here is your tea hookup bottoms up!
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http://www.chinatownonlineusa.com/ginseng/kg211.htm
Here is the place in Utah to get pretty much anything oriental. I am sure that they would have the ginseng tea as well and all kinds of other teas.
http://superchinamarket.com/index.php
Super China Market
115 W 9000 S
Sandy, UT 84070
thanks rich!
Amie,
Yard sales are the best.....I want to go out with you. I'm just a shopper, and I always pay what they're asking....I need help. I think the things you got for Emily are great. Good job! When I had foster kids, I always got everything from re-sale shops, and other foster parents. Kids don't care if the stuff is new, just safe and clean...I nalways run used toys through the dish washer, or the washing machine. I can't wait to meet Miss Emily. Love you!!
Your family is just sooo cute!! We love the new tiny girl!!! We miss you all! Matt, Matt dropped his phone in the pool at a swim meet this weekend! So he doesn't have a phone!! Crazy and nuts!! You can text my phone for now if you want. Sorry about your phone! that is crazy! whats with us all destroying our phones! haha... if anything you can email matt at mattbailey46@gmail.com.
Congrats on your little one. She's a doll. Kids are so funny. Dallin recently asked me how babies get out of a moms tummy. That was an interesting conversation.
hahaha thats always an interesting conversation, I pulled the "i'll tell you when you're older" card with that one for the first time. i hated being told that when i was a kid :)
I just keep thinking about what Sammy said when he first saw you feeding Emily. "COOL!!!"
Oddly enough this third baby is not even here yet, and Ben and I have been on the whole breast feeding subject at least 3 times in the past week!
With Zach being formula fed, I wonder how Ben will act if I can get the third to like the boob. ;)
Oh yeah the subject of how babies get in mommy's tummy came up. Ben quickly replied, God put them there!!!
And how they get out was quite easy since they were both c-sections. Ben now pretends to cut out the baby with his "knife".... AKA: Lincoln log.
EDIT: I meant Dan quickly replied an answer to Ben...that God put them there.
Oh Aimless...I just love your totally random and hilarious ramblings. Its funny because I went to the gym tonight and was walking the track and thinking to myself, I really want to lose weight, but SERIOUSLY?!!! Do my boobs have to shrink too?!!! Damnit!!!!!
So, when you eat lots of chocolate, it doesn't come out chocolate flavored??? LOL I am ultra envious of your kicthen aid in the other post. I want one so badly but I don't have the counter space. I just can't deal with having to put it away and take it out each time I want it!!
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