Christian Winter
Ten weeks later, at 2.5 months, we’re doing as well as I expected. And I expected nothing but the best. But it wasn’t without challenges. Here’s a little catalog.
Breastfeeding: The first 10 or so days were awful. Think vice grips. Christian Winter was, for a short while, renamed to Torturer. But quitting was out of question. Now we’re pros, I can walk around like an Amazonian woman with him eating in the sling.
Elimination: It’s hard to tell how things will develop, but we’ve established some grounds for potty independence. At least few times a day, the boy pees and poops in the bathroom when we take him. He’s diaper free for a part of the day and we have fewer of those things to wash or throw away. We mostly use cloth diapers though while out, we do use the disposable ones (Seventh Generation brand).
Sleeping: This is as well as it can be expected. There is now one nighttime waking around 2am during which all three of us are in state of light sleep and multitasking, Christian eating, me feeding and Chris listening if he’s needed. But I’m still as sleepy as I can be and really should be doing that now instead of this…