Revelation 1:1 - 1:5

[psocoptera]

I have also learned some things:

1:1 If you put cabbage leaves in your bra, when you open up your bra again later to pull them out, it will smell like cabbage.

1:2 What with leaking milk, you're halfway to a coleslaw.

1:3 But adding carrots and mustard seed would not help anything.

1:4 Speaking of mustard, when they said baby poop was "mustardy", I was picturing something like brown mustard. No, they apparently mean bright yellow-orange fake ballpark mustard. Dang.

1:5 It's really hard to tell where the line is between being paranoid and properly concerned. For example, , the little scabby bits on the ends of my nipples aren't really a problem for me, and they definitely don't seem to be a problem for Juniper, but after reading a zillion things about Your Latch, Oh God, Your Latch, You Are Totally Doing Something Wrong Even If A Lactation Consultant Said You Were Great, I can't stop worrying that I am Doing Something Wrong and they are a precursor of the dreaded Cracked and Bleeding Nipples (the breastfeeding advice has a lot about Cracked and Bleeding Nipples and not anything I can find about Tiny Flat Totally Non-Bleeding Scabs). I just feel like pain or a baby who didn't seem to be satisfied by feeding would be a less ambiguous concern - I mean, maybe they just tend to scab a little at first? How would I know?

Comments

[prof-fran.livejournal.com]

I don't mean to belittle your nipple scabs here but my limited experience suggests that if you were having serious problems, neither you nor Juniper would be able to touch your breasts, let alone do any feeding. I think if you're ok and she's happy and pooping, you want to get yourself the Lansinoh recommended here--worked wonders for us even though we didn't end up breast feeding (for supply and latch reasons).

Good luck!

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, that's it exactly, I mean, it seems like such a non-problem, I just also have this lingering doubt that we're going to mess up some minor-seeming thing and there will be Repercussions. Like Josh and I at our first peds appointment very earnestly asking about burping techniques - realistically, she'll burp, she won't burp, she'll fuss, she won't, we'll figure it out, there is no scenario in which gas builds up in there until the baby explodes, but there we are asking. Possibly my revelation should have been "just because you know you're being an alarmist new parent, it doesn't mean you magically stop being an alarmist new parent."