Motherhood can be gross

Well, it hasn't been the easiest few days, but we've survived so far. GIII still has his days and nights mixed up, but there's not a lot of difference between his days and nights. I swear, he sleeps 20 hours a day and we have to wake him up for feedings (and it's a battle to get him to wake up too - cold washclothes and laying in his bed in his diaper still don't wake him up quick). But his wakeful periods are somewhere between 2 and 6 am, so I'm still suffering from sleep deprivation, among other things.

Like postpartum sweating. Gosh, I don't remember sweating like this with G Jr, and I had a load more fluid to get rid of thanks to being bloated from 2.5 days on an IV. At least it doesn't stink, but it's been a pain sleeping. It's cooled off enough to sleep with blankets, but if I cover up, I end up drenched. And if I take the blankets off, I freeze... Lovely, eh?

Then there's the chest cold I ended up getting. I've been snotty and coughing and wheezing since coming out of the hospital. It started off as a sinus cold, and I'm not sure what's better. Coughing phlem or having my eyeballs feel like they're going to drain out of my head with all the snot. Either way, it's not a pretty sight.

Lastly, the c-section... At least this time they did a damned good job putting me back together. If I was in the same pain I was after G Jr's c-section, I'd have shot myself after the chest cold started. Coughing nearly put me into tears for 4 weeks. This time, I'm a lot more mobile and in a lot less pain. And things were fine until yesterday when a hard and raised section of my incision popped... Fluid buildup. I thought Gunther was going to toss his cookies on me when I asked him to take a look at it for me (since I'm too short to see my lower abdomen in the mirror in the bathroom). So yay, a round of antibiotics started... Joy.

But all in all things are going well. GIII's doing good, even if he spends most of his time sleeping. Wish I could get away with that, but G Jr's out of daycare starting Monday... Can't afford to be on maternity leave and keep him in daycare. That one's bugging me, not because I want to be rid of the oldest during the day, but because he enjoys it so much. *Sigh*

And we're still working on the move to Sudbury. Still have too much stuff to do before we can do that, but it's still going to happen. And still before this winter hopefully.