I am a COW!

7/2/11
I am a cow...no seriously I am hooked up to a pump like 8 hours a day and now know what those milking cows feel like!  Ok so it's been about 4 weeks since my last post, and I have no idea where the weeks went.  Someone once told me that the days and nights are long, but the weeks go by quickly during those first months with a newborn.  And they are absolutely correct!

Lets see if I can recall any information from the blur of the past few weeks, especially since I am diagnosing myself with officially having the very common disorder called "mommy brain".  I have come to this self diagnosis from the 5x this week I have failed to close the fridge all the way in the middle of the night causing most things to become semi-frozen to compensate for the temperature change, and the fact that I can't remember a thing a did an hour ago, let alone yesterday!

So I waited too long to sign up for the America's finest City Half marathon in August and it sold out.  I am extremely sad about this...I love that race.  I am kind of hoping I can do it last minute by buying someone's bib that can't do it.  And I definitely think the sprint triathlon in July is out for me too.  I'm still healing from the breast feeding issues and have already gotten one infected milk duct, and don't want to risk another one since it completely messes up your milk supply.  I have already had way too many challenges with that.  I have been able to swim a couple of times, bike once, and run a couple miles with the dogs.  Today I went for my first longer run, probably about 50min.  I feel pretty good, but still have some weird feelings in my hips as if they are a little loose.  Even though it seems like I take one step forward and two steps back, overall things physically and emotionally have improved both with my body and with being a mom.  My goal is to try to do something active EVERY day...even if it is just a run/walk with the dogs.  I had to take two different medications from the milk duct infection that caused me to be extremely tired...on top of the sleep deprivation is not much fun, and retain water...again not much fun when I already feel squishy and bloated.  Those cycles both finished the beginning of the week and I am already feeling my body start to go in the right direction...slowly, but it's going thank goodness.   I definitely feel like my pre-pregnancy body is hiding under a nice squishy layer  that I cannot wait to get ride of.  My mom's yummy desserts aren't really helping my cause though.

My running partner and I have yet to meet up for some exercise, but are hoping to give it a go tomorrow.  It is challenging planning anything with Hailey, so I can't even imagine what it is like for her and the twins.  She does seem to have them a pretty good schedule though.  I on the other hand am still working on that.  Hailey is actually taking a nice nap in her crib as we speak...I mean as I write, and the last couple of evenings we've gotten about 3 hours of sleep at one time...and last weekend we even got 5 hours between feeding and 4 hours of sleep at one time!  I am trying to read as much as I can to ensure we give her good sleep habits.  I am looking forward to her 2mo checkup to see how much weight she as gained so we can possibly attempt the daunting task of getting her to sleep through the night.

I am thinking it may be time to start a new blog as a fit mommy.... what do you think?