Day 98...got the spins

Apr 27

Uhg. My head is still spinning and it's pretty much bed time. I don't know what it is, but it sucks. Eli suggested maybe it's an ear infection, or vertigo. That could be so.

It's bothering me enough that if I still feel like this at the end of the week, I'm willing to go to the doctor. Boo.

I haven't told anyone at work I'm feeling like this. It's not that severe, just more annoying and bothersome, distracting. The thought did occur to me today however, that perhaps I should let someone know, in case I fainted, or fell down in my office or something. I wasn't feeling like that might happen, but I guess it could have happened anyway.

I nursed Martyn for a long time in bed this morning before getting up. Man, it's hard to get up early in the morning, after only sleeping for a couple hours at a time. I know Martyn is wanting to nurse at night time, all night pretty much, with a couple hours in between....and that's ok with me. It helps keep the milk production up, but I had gotten spoiled to him sleeping long stretches at a time in the night time hours and I'm feeling it now. Janelle said he's not really taking long naps in the day, and the boy is totally ready for bed by 8 or even 7:30 at night.

*sigh* It's just a new adjustment for our family I suppose. We'll get more used to it, but it's hard right now.

Tonight when I picked Martyn up, I was feeling kind of full and asked Janelle if it was ok for me to nurse him there before I left. She said it was. I told her when I sat down, that if I ever asked if it was ok to nurse him, and she had been planning to leave or anything like that, it was totally ok if she said no, I wouldn't be offended. She kind of laughed and said ok. When I was packing Martyn up to leave, I thanked her and told her I was really glad I found her add on craigslist. She kind of paused, and then said "yeah, it's working out." I said I was glad she thought so too.

I was thinking I would like to invite her and her husband over for dinner some time. I asked Eli if he thought that would be ok, and he said he would like that. I wondered if it would be appropriate, and he said sure it would be...it's always appropriate to get to know better, the people who are caring for your infant child, ha! He's totally right. So I think I'll do that. I don't know when though. Perhaps I need to plan it a little better.