Measure In Love

When you realize that your new blog has a typo.

My URL is brininguplillies, not bringing. I forgot a “G”, and I hate my life lol

My mom only breastfed one of her kids because she was originally told she couldn’t, with the first three. She breastfed for a year and as far as I know she had a pretty good experience with it. But she’s very “old fashioned” about it where she thinks it should be very private and that public breastfeeding is unnecessary. Yesterday when we were out she suggested I find a nearby bathroom to feed Lilly in. I’m not comfortable with public breastfeeding either, but that’s because Lilly often uncovers herself and my boob and I don’t feel like flashing my tata to the world. We opted for a dressing room. Had she been much smaller, I would have just found a quiet place to sit and grabbed my cover-up and called it done.

My sister was sharing with me the wonders of bottle feeding yesterday, and how much easier her life was with it. She told me to get Lilly on a bottle (not necessarily implying the use of formula, but hey I’m not pumping for ANYONE either lol) and was surprised when I said I wanted to continue to breastfeed until a year, and that I wanted to try baby led weaning. She doesn’t believe that babies will wean on their own and that breastfeeding should end between 6 & 9 months. I don’t doubt that the people she had spoken to said that that can be a good time to wean - I mean, everyone has their own thoughts and own experiences, but everyone at WIC and the Leche League have all told me a year is best, if you can.

Andrews whole family is surprised that Lilly looks so chubby and healthy, because she’s breastfed. They always say things like “for a breastfed baby.” They really should be wondering about formula fed babies, I should think, since breastfeeding is the way nature intended them to be fed. (No, I’m not claiming that breastfeeding is better and being all high ad mighty, just making an observation.)

Why can’t everyone be just as accepting of me doing what I believe is best and what works for me as they were of Steph? So she formula fed, so what? She did what worked, what she had to do, and nobody bugged her about it. Her daughter turned out healthy, and look! So is mine!
Why don’t I ever hear, “that’s great, that you’re trying/doing so well” etc or people acknowledging that it’s difficult and that I’ve come so far? Everything I hear makes it sound so negative and that I’m doing myself a disservice or I’m crazy. I would rather laze around and spend a year focusing on my daughter and doing what I believe is best than do something because it makes my life easier. I’m fully capable of doing this, I have the opportunity to be home for that year, so why shouldn’t I? If I’d desperately needed to go back to work, I would have figured out a system to pump and then done it for as long as I could stand. But I didn’t have to.
The only reason I barely do things is because I have no car. If I did, Lilly and I could go all sorts of places. I’m not tied down because of her. And when we do go places, it seems like everything is “so difficult” because its not what everyone else is used to and I put them out of their way to wait for me to feed Lilly.

But I’m also using

bringinguplillies.tumblr

In case anyone cares lol

It’s been a long time now, and I still get jealous.

I don’t understand why.

Seriously, people keep unfollowing me. I don’t blame them.

Someone please friend me one facebook :( it’s the only thing I have any time to keep up with lately.

Suzanne Canton. Look me up (:

I just haven’t had time for tumblr lately. We just moved into the apartment that my dad built into their basement (so much more space, btw) and it’s not entirely finished, so we’ve been working on that, and all of my lovely homework, and my lovely clingy child make it hard to sit down and get on here.

Good news tho, the apartment is actually almost finished now, and I can start organizing our stuff soon. It’s been driving me nuts living half in dressers and half out of boxes. We just got our sink hooked up yesterday, which is nice, because doing dishes in the tub was awkward and uncomfortable lol

I will answer my messages privately when I get on the computer later hopefully. I feel like such a horrible person not answering anyone.

If anyone wants to talk to me somewhere where I’m more likely to answer, email me! My email is suzanne_patricia89@hotmail.com

For real, this is the best way to talk to me. I check it daily, multiple times a day. Also, I’m addicted to Drawsomething, so draw me something! My username is soozeeq89 (:

Love, 

Lilly

I have 10 unopened cans of formula. We bought a bunch of it, thinking that I was going to stop breastfeeding sooner & that Lilly would actually continue drinking it. Well, she hates it, and I feel like it’s a big waste sitting in our cabinet. It’s Enfamil Infant 12.5oz cans (powdered.) I would love to just give it away but I can’t :/ It cost us about 12ish bucks a can.

So! I’m offering it for $60 to the first person who’s willing to pay for it! Lol I’ve included what I expect for shipping in the 60, so don’t worry about that. Please no over seas :/ sorry.

Let me know if you’re interested! I’ll get it out to you asap.

When Andrew and I finally get our own home, we WILL be furnishing it with IKEA products.

Seriously.

IKEA EVERYWHERE.

I saw something a while ago from IKEA and thought, “wow, its so sleek and fancy looking. It must be so expensive.” But then I went on their website and found this gorgeous dark wood dresser for $39.99. 

WHAAAA?

And there is this FANTABULOUS crib that’s only $99.99. You can take one side off and use it as a co-sleeper or turn it into a toddler bed. 

Plus, it has a lovely changing table that matches for $69.99.

Forreal. The crib that my mom was going to buy us was $189.99.

We can buy a crib and its matching changing table for less than that still. 

IKEA, YOU ARE THE NEW LOVE OF MY LIFE. 

for no reason.

So I decided to eat the world’s most gigantic cup of ice cream.

Bad idea.

Sorry I can’t ever get on here lately.

Four months has thus far been a lot more demanding than three & two months. My child never naps & she still doesn’t really play yet, so she’s difficult to occupy.

Can’t wait to see how much “fun” it will be as she gets older…