Breast Milk Does A Body Good

Breast milk Does Every Body Good

Eye infections: Squirt in an open or closed eye. If the eye is closed have the person lie back, squirt it, then open his or her eye. 4 times or more per day.

Plugged eye ducts: Squirt into the eye crease at the nose. Do this 4 times one day and 2 times the next.

Conjunctivitis (”Pink Eye”): Same as Plugged eye ducts, but continue with 4 times daily until the crust is gone.

Sties: Same as Conjunctivitis.

Sore/cracked nipples: Rub into nipples and air dry.

Scratches: Squirt and air dry, bandage, etc. as normal.

Burns: Same as scratches.

Diaper rash: Squirt and air dry.

Mosquito bites: Squirt on bite and rub in. Stops the itching.

Ant bites: Same as Mosquito bites.

Ear infections: Squirt or pour into sore ear. Can follow with warm (not hot) olive oil and garlic.

Acne: Wash face with water, then follow with breast milk squirted onto a cotton (be sure it’s cotton, that synthetic stuff can scratch the surface of your skin and cause problems) puff and apply all over face.

Sore throats: Anyone who will let you can be helped by a squirt of breast milk. Either by direct squirt or if applied from a sterile plastic cup.

Stuffy noses: Squirt into nose and suction or squeeze out as you would with saline.

Contact lenses: If you have an irritant under your lens and forgot your eye drops, take it out, hand express to get a nice little stream going to rinse contact off.

Eye puffiness and redness: Express breast milk and pour over eyes. Does as good of job, if not better, than tea bags!

Breast cancer: Recent studies suggests that just the simple and natural act of breastfeeding can benefit mom as well by providing protection against breast cancer.

Cold sores/Fever blisters: Express a small amount of breast milk onto clean finger and apply immediately to cold sore. Ends pain and helps speed the healing process.

Chicken pox: Use as you would Calamine Lotion or some other ointment.Leg ulcers: Someone has claimed of hearing about a breastfeeding mother putting breast milk on an elderly relative’s unhealing leg ulcers, it cleared them up too. I don’t know how long it took.

Chapped lips/skin: Express a small amount onto fingers and wipe over lips or skin. Do not rub it in…leave a little wet.

Just call me Tim Taylor.

Because the mess I made was about like his!!! Remember that TV show?? Grunt grunt.

Today I was having a moment. A moment where my expensive Bosch washing machine wouldn't spin, drain or unlock the door so I could open it. I tried everything the manual suggested I do. NOTHING!!! Soooo, what would any talented woman do?? I searched online in some forums to find answers to my problem.

There is a "door" on the front of the washer that has the motor in it. Sometimes small things can get caught there. After prying, I mean delicately getting the door open, I saw the opening. The forum had said to lay a few towels down because there would be water coming out. CHECK!! I had towels and was ready. I started to unscrew the cap. It reminded me of unscrewing the gas cap off. Water started spewing! So I thought, "what the heck!" and unscrewed it more! I cannot even begin to explain what happened next. There was water spewing E V E R Y W H E R E ! ! ! I was soaked from the waist down. The towels were beyond wet and water was still coming out!!! Let's just say it will take a few DAYS to dry out the basement! I was in tears!! My HB had just packed up a bunch of his magazines and guess where they were sitting?? Yes, in the floor of the basement that had water rising in it!!! I was frantically moving boxes. HEAVY boxes. I was trying to move them to dry land! Sand bags would have been a nice thing to have but I didn't have time to prepare them. Otherwise I would have done that before I unscrewed the cap! Seriously there was THAT much water!!

Okay, sooooo finally the water had stopped. I have a basement floor covered in water. The baby had woken up from her nap and crying upstairs. I am crying downstairs. Taking off my wet clothes. Trying to keep Lil O out of the water. Sweeping the water to the drain. Trying to save as many boxes as I could with magazines in them. It was a huge disaster!!

I really Tim Taylor-ed it for sure!!!

Then I reach my hand into the hole and there is something in the motor fan. I start digging around and pull out this wet clump of something. Looks like a bunch of cotton. Then I look harder and guess what it is????? A WASHABLE BREAST PAD FOR BREASTFEEDING MOMS TO KEEP MILK FROM DRIPPING ALL OVER THEM WHEN THEIR MILK LETS DOWN!!!!!

Well, mystery solved. The basement will be dry in a couple days and I fixed the washing machine!!! ~insert pleased smile here, tired but pleased~

Breastfeeding Question. Where did "ninny" come from?

I was having a chat yesterday about "ninny". IE: Breastfeeding.

My mamaw has always called it that. My kids call it that. "Want some ninny?"

I googled it and really didn't find anything conclusive. Since I hear it all the time I just knew there would be something about it somewhere. I was wrong.

When I talk with my mamaw today I am going to ask her about it.

Opinions???????

Breast milk has a shelf life?

~actual conversation last night with my almost 78 year old grandmother whose pastime/hobby is to worry about things. Even if she has to come up with something to worry about.~

Mamaw- I don't think Baby M is growing. I think you should take her to the doctor and start giving her something else.

Me- She is just fine and growing just fine. I spoke to the my doctor last week at my check up and they agreed with me. A mother knows her baby.

Mamaw- You are older now and your breast milk may not be as good as it used to be.

AMUSED LAUGH HERE.

Isn't she just adorable? My mamaw that is.

I will add that Baby M has outgrown newborn diapers and now into a size 1 so my breast milk must have a long shelf life.

On a Roll Today.

~Breastfeeding the baby, taking a shower before noon and skipping breakfast.
~Wearing maternity jeans and your nursing bra. $40.00
~Going to the grocery store. $140.81 (including Oreo's)

Leaving your children with your sister for less than an hour to leave the house ALONE. PRICELESS!!!!!!!
Bonus: Making it home with a dry shirt.

Guess you can tell what I did yesterday. After that we even went out to lunch. OUT as in getting in the minivan and driving to a restaurant that waited on us hand and foot. That kind of OUT!!!!!

I have a few different things I want to blog about today and going to do it all in one blog instead of several.

Yesterday was the 15th. That means Moon Pie is ONE month old. Time flies when you don't get much sleep.

It has been a great month. We are completely and totally in love with Baby M. We were before we even left the hospital. Now that we are home and life is trying to settle down I am enjoying every moment with her. She is such a snuggle bunny. She loves to snuggle and be all wrapped up in a warm blanket. Since she shares our bed I get to snuggle with her all night long. She loves that as much as I do!!!!! She will root around until she finds me then she goes right back to sleep. Baby M has more awake periods now. She loves to look around and explore the big world around her. She also enjoys her bath time. With me or without me. She loves to be rubbed down with lotion too!! She is really such a joy and wonderful baby girl. We are truly blessed!!! Now if we could get Lil O to not be jealous then life would be fabulous!!!!

May 15, 2008 Happy ONE month Birthday To You! Snuggle Bunny Moon Pie :)







Isn't she the most beautiful baby you have ever laid your eyes on????

Okay, moving on. I am still sick!! I hate being sick!! When I started feeling bad earlier on in the week I had a conversation with my mamaw. She is from the way old school and not sure about all this fancy stuff in 2008. Well even before 2008. She thinks computers are evil. She cannot work the VCD/DVD player STILL. Following me? Here's a REAL conversation we had.

Me- I am getting sick.
Her- With?
Me- Whatever the kids had I guess. I feel icky!
Her- Now the baby will get it?
Me- I doubt it.
Her- No, she will get it from your milk.
Me- Umm, no it doesn't work that way.
Her- It doesn't?

Noooo, it really doesn't work that way. If anything Baby M is being protected from the breast milk she is getting to fight off the cold I have. It's interesting how people were taught long ago and some of the things that come out of their mouth. I love her so freaking much that she can be comical to me. She can rub others the wrong way but it's just because they haven't had the chance to know her the almost 34 years that I have. ha ha

Next! Calling number 4 !!!



See the above picture. I call it Evidence Picture #1. See the little flecks of white against the hardwood floor? Blow the picture up if you have too. This is what I woke up to this morning just in MY BEDROOM. In one confined little piece of floor beside the bed. Want to know what it is????? My HB's DOWN BOOTIES THAT ARE OVER 30 YEARS OLD!! That's what it is!! ~Insert lots of cuss words here!!~ I even bought him a BRAND NEW PAIR for Christmas. I am sick and tired of picking up these feathers. I have been fussing at him for a long time about the feathers. He doesn't see it as a big deal but his anal OCD wife wants to throw the damn things in the lake that is beside our house! I am going to warn the down booties now! You better run and hide little down booties. Your days are numbered!!!! Better cower under the bed or in the closet because when I get my hands on you--DIE DOWN BOOTIES DIE!!! I am going to get B2 to make me a noose so I can give them a SLOW and painful death. I'll post that picture too!

Whew, okay I feel better. They are going to DIE though. Just you wait and see.

I watched Grey's Anatomy last night. Too bad the season finale is next week. It feels like it just came back on after the writer's strike. BUMMER!

Okay, TGIF! Have a lovely weekend. Party hard or get lots of rest. Whatever works for you.

I breastfeed in public. No biggie.

I am a big supporter of breastfeeding! BIG BIG!! I have breastfed all of my children. My oldest daughter will be 14 in June and she nursed for 2 years. My son nursed for over a year. Lil O nursed for over 2 years. Now I am breastfeeding the new baby (who will be 4 weeks old tomorrow, sniffle). It is such a special time to bond with my baby and give her the best nutrition she can get.

I bring this up because I have always breastfed my children in public. I have never cowered in the bathroom or the car to nurse them. They have to eat just like everyone else and they eat where I am. I am very polite about it. I don't just pull my boob out and feed her. I always make sure I am well covered. Trust me, there is a polite way and the "OMG do you see what she is doing" way. So anyway this afternoon we stopped to eat at Earth Fare. A grocery that has a YUMMY bar during the day. Moon Pie woke up in the line and was ready to eat! I sat in the booth and nursed her as I was eating my dinner as well. No harm and I didn't flash any innocent bystanders.

Breastfeeding is such a natural and beautiful thing. I LOVE BREASTFEEDING!!!! Breastfeeding ROCKS!!!!!! Anyway... I just wanted to share my love for breastfeeding and talk about nursing your baby in public.

With the kids being sick and coughing and spreading THEIR germs around the house is was bound to happen. I am starting to get sick. I woke up from my nap with a scratchy throat and now I feel all icky. I popped some cold meds and made a cup of HOT coffee to ease my achy body. Moms aren't supposed to get sick. Who will take care of everyone else if we cannot??? I have Moon Pie in the wrap and she is snug as a bug in a rug. I love this thing. Lil O is in her pj's playing around the house. My HB is watching Top Gear on the couch. I hope he doesn't get sick as well. Then there would be no one to take care of me!!! And that is what it is all about! ha ha

I am supposed to go to the doctor for my 4 week check up tomorrow. So she can check out my cesarean scar and make me step on the scales. I picked up a nice thank you card for her to enclose a picture of her holding Moon Pie. I am also picking up her a gift tomorrow from this neat place downtown. They have great bath things. It is also a spa. My HB always gets me bath products there on special occasions.

Here is a photo taken on Mothers Day with all my four children. We had just got home from eating breakfast out and had put our pj's back on. Yes, I look tired. I am. Plus, I did just have a baby a few short weeks ago.



I took this later on during the day. I love this picture.

Part Two

I'll just make a long hospital stay fit into one paragraph. Here goes.

Was in lots of pain. On great medication. Lots of visitors, maybe too many. Pain. Was up a few nights due to a baby that wouldn't sleep. Pain. Perhaps had a kidney stone. Which meant another IV that included morphine. Let's not forget the catheter. I so hate those things. Pain. Nice nurses. My doctors made their rounds each day and so did Baby M's. ~Great doctors is what they are!~ Lil O spent one night with us. Pain.

The most important thing that happened during those days was that we fell completely in love with Baby M.

See, giving you the short version allowed me to leave out the suppository that gave the hemorrhoid. My breasts growing 10 X's their normal size due to milk. All the fluid leaking from various parts of my body. And all that pushing on my poor poor uterus making sure it was FIRM! OUCH, that hurts!!!!! Plus, finding a comfortable way of getting in and out of the bed. I still never accomplished that one. I am still working on it at home though.

At least the food was good, right?

I am really glad I was allowed to come home on Friday. I didn't think she was going to let me but I asked really nicely. Plus, doesn't good behavior take away time you have to serve? Anyway...

We made it home. Things have settled down. She still thinks she has to stay up until 2-3 am watching crap TV with me on the couch. Then we will crawl in bed together and sleep soundly for about 2 hours until she wants the boob again. Not a bad routine I suppose.

I just cannot believe how beautiful she is. All my kids have been. She is just a pleasure and I just want to hold and love on her all day. Which is pretty much what I do all day when allowed. Everyone else wants to hold her too. So, I have to pass her around I suppose. But she always makes it back to me. Well my boob that is. I am such a big supporter of breastfeeding. LOVE IT!!! I ENCOURAGE IT!! I have breastfed all my children. And not just for a couple weeks. I am talking years for each child alone. Lil O hasn't been off the breast for a year yet to think about it. I was sad to have her stop. It was more her decision than mine. It worked out though.

Breastmilk does a body good.

BreastMilk Does Every Body Good

Eye infections: Squirt in an open or closed eye. If the eye is closed have the person lie back, squirt it, then open his or her eye. 4 times or more per day.

Plugged eye ducts: Squirt into the eye crease at the nose. Do this 4 times one day and 2 times the next.

Conjuctivitis (”Pink Eye”): Same as Plugged eye ducts, but continue with 4 times daily until the crust is gone.

Sties: Same as Conjunctivitis.

Sore/cracked nipples: Rub into nipples and air dry.

Scratches: Squirt and air dry, bandage, etc. as normal.

Burns: Same as scratches.

Diaper rash: Squirt and air dry.

Mosquito bites: Squirt on bite and rub in. Stops the itching.

Ant bites: Same as Mosquito bites.

Ear infections: Squirt or pour into sore ear. Can follow with warm (not hot) olive oil and garlic.

Acne: Wash face with water, then follow with breastmilk squirted onto a cotton (be sure it’s cotton, that synthetic stuff can scratch the surface of your skin and cause problems) puff and apply all over face.

Sore throats: Anyone who will let you can be helped by a squirt of breastmilk. Either by direct squirt or if applied from a sterile plastic cup.

Stuffy noses: Squirt into nose and suction or squeeze out as you would with saline.

Contact lenses: If you have an irritant under your lens and forgot your eyedrops, take it out, hand express to get a nice little stream going to rinse contact off.

Eye puffiness and redness: Express breastmilk and pour over eyes. Does as good of job, if not better, than tea bags!

Breast cancer: Recent studies suggests that just the simple and natural act of breastfeeding can benefit mom as well by providing protection against breast cancer.

Cold sores/Fever blisters: Express a small amount of breastmilk onto clean finger and apply immediately to cold sore. Ends pain and helps speed the healing process.

Chicken pox: Use as you would Calamine Lotion or some other ointment.

Leg ulcers: Someone has claimed of hearing about a breastfeeding mother putting breastmilk on an elderly relative’s unhealing leg ulcers, it cleared them up too. I don’t know how long it took.

Chapped lips/skin: Express a small amount onto fingers and wipe over lips or skin. Do not rub it in…leave a little wet.