Five months - Sitting pretty

The pacifier is firmly in place for nighttime sleeping.  Partly, this is a lack of good parenting on my part as I'm interested in getting a good night's sleep before delivering babies or doing pap smears.  But Lucas is in charge of the day time sleeping and he has the patience of a saint (and usually a decent amount of sleep on board).  The result: 100% pacifier free naps!  Wow!

I'm working on Miles' latch because for the last three months I've had pain with breastfeeding.  I have had two lactation consults (one with Miles, one without).   It seems I may have a stubborn case of thrush (yeast).  I've been treating it by taking an oral antifungal medication every day for the last two months.  But I think the combination of the infection and Miles' poor latch made the pain this week almost unbearable.  I almost decided to stop breastfeeding entirely and pump full time for the rest of Miles' first year.  I've done a lot of reading on thrush and there are a few more things I can try to help kick the infection but it may just stick around until we're done breastfeeding.  It's a bummer because I had looked forward to breastfeeding so much and it has turned out to be so uncomfortable for me.  Lucas is working on Miles' latch at home with the bottle too:

While I worked on Miles' latch this week, Miles worked on sitting.  He's practically a professional sitter now, a professional baby sitter.  He's probably making big bucks with all the baby sitting time he's accrued.



Here are this week's pictures of Miles Kennedy Carscadden:

This ride is making me sick!

You would not believe the amount of cat hair under here!

What, sitting?  No big deal.  I'm not a little baby!

Reggie stalks his prey.