James did not eat very much this morning, so I whipped out the manual pump we got from the medela parts when we pumped in the hospital and hooked it up to a Playtex Nurser drop-in (thank you for that gift, C. & D. !!) and I pumped the other side. I got 3 oz. [...]

When you see new parents with their baby (or babies) you never see the “behind the scenes” work. I never thought having James, or any other baby for that matter, would be so much W-O-R-K… constant, ’round the clock, no breaks kind of work. And it, the work, like the baby himself, came all of [...]

I, for one, am getting pretty good at one handed typing – and that is something because the keys on our keyboard are in the DVORAK configuration even though we mostly type in QWERTY. Don’t ask. Long story.

Seriously, though, we’re almost through the dark tunnel of survival mode. I think most new moms [...]