#brandonmiles

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This is part of The Beach babe.. But I can't really call him a Babe..  soo Making more art of him is fun, since you get to see more of my male OC and well My Species © Drawing and Brandon Miles, My OC belong to me

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So I haven't let myself get pump happy like I did with Spencer and so far my supply has been much more manageable. I only pump once day if I even get the chance. It's regulated pretty quickly, so most of the engorgement is over and I don't have crazy awful oversupply.

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First night alone with the kids

Sort of.  I was alone both nights in the hospital though so I did get a little prep in, and this won’t be much different since Spencer almost never wakes up at night.

I’m handling getting no sleep way better than I did with Spencer for some reason, too. Maybe Michael and I are just tag-teaming better. Or maybe it’s because we’ve done it before so we know what to expect. Brandon also sleeps for longer periods than Spencer did. I think it’s because he doesn’t have a tongue-tie, so he gets a better, more effective latch and really gets full. Spencer ate for shorter amounts of time, probably because it was too much work. So he’d wake up more frequently to eat.

Either way, Brandon’s asleep right now; he fell asleep on Michael about an hour ago, and I know I should be trying to sleep but it’s only 10:00. So I’m up and about getting all the damn clean laundry that’s piled up put away.

Michael just left for work. This is gonna be my first night alone with both of the kids. He didn’t work overnights with Spencer so he was always home through the night. So this is kinda weird. Thankfully, since he took off a few days after Brandon was born it’s just the one night this week. So I’ll get a tester before I have to go all out next week for four days. 

But Michael finally got a department transfer and now he’ll just be working late as opposed to all night. I am gonna have an issue with figuring out walking the dogs in the evening though. Obviously I can wear Brandon in the Moby or Ergo but I can’t hold onto Spencer and two 40 pound dogs and be able to pick up poop if I need to. Dinner and Spencer’s bath time will be easy enough with baby wearing and the swing or bouncer. The dogs are honestly my biggest concern with figuring out a good system for that. Maybe I’ll wear Brandon, put Spencer in the crappy umbrella stroller, and take one dog at a time? That sounds like the easiest option, but the dogs like going together, blahhh.

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Brandon doesn't have a tongue tie and I literally can't explain how much easier breastfeeding is with him. Also I pumped for the first time today because my milk just came in and the girls hurt, and holy shit the Medela pump is SO nice compared to The First Years one I had with Spencer. Like it didn't hurt at all to pump and it felt so efficient and I got like 2.75 oz from my first session! Two of them were from my left boob which was interesting, cus with Spencer my right one was the super producer. I think I'm gonna have a great freezer stock cus of this pump.

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Spencer is playing footsies with Brandon. He keeps rubbing his feet on my tummy and Brandon is wiggling back aND IT'S THE CUTEST THING EVER.

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Really wish I had the nesting energy this week. You watch, I’ll get it after we’ve finally got everything done and there’s nothing left to do.

We wiped down all the big toys, infant car seat (because we’re reusing the one we had for Spencer), and I’m currently washing all the covers that said they’re machine washable.

All that’s left for today is wiping down the stroller, getting the bases leveled properly in the cars, putting the covers back on everything, tidying up the kids’ closet, and then working on our bedroom a little bit more.

Tomorrow we’re bathing the dogs and finishing our bedroom.

We really should be able to get everything done by the end of the week, which will be nice. Then I’ll have 2-3 weeks of just routine cleaning and maintaining to do while we wait for Brandon to pick his birthday.

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This pelvic pain fucking sucks and I know I only have 3(ish) weeks left so I’ve been trying really hard not to complain much about it but literally every time I need to shift my pelvis (i.e. stand up, sit down, shift while sitting, roll over in bed, get onto the floor, get off the floor, bend over, get in the car...) it feels like someone already kicked me in the vagina and is now stepping on the super fresh bruise.

It hasn’t been as bad for as long as it was with Spencer, cus while he never fully dropped, he dropped enough to increase the pressure around 30 weeks. This time it was manageable until a couple weeks ago, but, and I could be mis-remembering things, it feels like it’s way freaking worse this time. Brandon also hasn’t dropped, probably because, like his older brother, he’s posterior.

I don’t want Brandon to come early. I really don’t. I especially want this upcoming week to clean and finish organizing. But holy shit am I done being pregnant.

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Brandon is very stubbornly posterior just like Spencer. Back labor we will meet again. *siiiiigggghhhhh*