Cabin fever was making me crazy. Boredom and a desperate need for real human contact finally made me overcome my fear of breastfeeding in public and I finally just did it! After overcoming that hurdle, I suddenly had freedom! One of the first things I did was acknowledge my needs and address those. I joined a book club that I really like a lot and found another outlet to fulfill my need for intellectual stimulation, and I really enjoyed myself and met some people here that I'm glad to have met. I've also found something interesting to do with all the time I have sitting around when I'm breastfeeding the baby or pumping. I feel much happier and fulfilled today than I did a week ago, when I felt trapped and bored.
I also recognized that I needed to focus more on some other issues that have been causing me daily frustration. I found some software to help me with tackling some of the problems I've been having. I believe that it's improved things for me by making it easier to increase my milk production, which it has, and keep track of the baby's daily needs, and to remind to do all the little things I need to remember to do, and to help me schedule and track the baby's sleep/wake cycles, which makes it easier for me to anticipate when I have an hour or two of time to schedule other things to do. There are times when it feels silly that you're plotting a baby's sleep and eating patterns on graphs, but you feel less silly when you realize how useful that is. I've also been tracking my sleep and eating patterns, which I had been ignoring, and that helped me to realize that I haven't been eating enough or sleeping enough and to know when and how I can fix that. I wish I had started using it weeks ago. I'm getting a lot more done much more easily and I'm feeling a lot less frustrated. I realize now that there's simply no way that a person can keep all that in her head. It's too much to remember and keep track of. You need a PDA or software, or hopefully, both.
I'm hoping to start postnatal workout classes soon. I look forward to it. Maybe I'll meet other women whom I like who are going through the same things as me right now.
I also recognized that I needed to focus more on some other issues that have been causing me daily frustration. I found some software to help me with tackling some of the problems I've been having. I believe that it's improved things for me by making it easier to increase my milk production, which it has, and keep track of the baby's daily needs, and to remind to do all the little things I need to remember to do, and to help me schedule and track the baby's sleep/wake cycles, which makes it easier for me to anticipate when I have an hour or two of time to schedule other things to do. There are times when it feels silly that you're plotting a baby's sleep and eating patterns on graphs, but you feel less silly when you realize how useful that is. I've also been tracking my sleep and eating patterns, which I had been ignoring, and that helped me to realize that I haven't been eating enough or sleeping enough and to know when and how I can fix that. I wish I had started using it weeks ago. I'm getting a lot more done much more easily and I'm feeling a lot less frustrated. I realize now that there's simply no way that a person can keep all that in her head. It's too much to remember and keep track of. You need a PDA or software, or hopefully, both.
I'm hoping to start postnatal workout classes soon. I look forward to it. Maybe I'll meet other women whom I like who are going through the same things as me right now.