3 Hour GDD and Breast Feeding Class
Aug. 7th, 2002 07:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lesliepearYesterday I had the 3 hour test. I am not good these days at doing without something to eat in the morning and I downed that glucose drink quickly (still tastes like flat cream soda/ginger ale). It was pain to be there for 3 hours and get 4 blood draws. On one of them my vein wiggled and it hurt, so I have a bruise on my left inner elbow. I didn't think the lab was so great (sometimes they were a few minutes off on the draw, I guess that's ok) and it will take 3-4 business days for the results. I guess I'll find out at my 30 week appointment next Tuesday.
Tonight I have a breast feeding class at the hospital. (It may be a little early, I wanted it next month but it conflicts with Lamaze class). DH isn't going. He's pretty supportive, but he's leaving that area to me - and he thinks it might be awkward to be in the class. I'll let him know if any guys come.
My goals are:
- Find out what resources are around if I have problems (other than LaLeche League which I've met).
- Find out if there is somewhere to buy nursing bras locally (or at least try different ones on).
- What to buy - especially in the area of bottles (I'll have to pump when I go back to work).
- Meet other mom-to-be's in the area.
- Possibly get leads on pediatricians and day care.
I'll report on it later.
Tonight I have a breast feeding class at the hospital. (It may be a little early, I wanted it next month but it conflicts with Lamaze class). DH isn't going. He's pretty supportive, but he's leaving that area to me - and he thinks it might be awkward to be in the class. I'll let him know if any guys come.
My goals are:
- Find out what resources are around if I have problems (other than LaLeche League which I've met).
- Find out if there is somewhere to buy nursing bras locally (or at least try different ones on).
- What to buy - especially in the area of bottles (I'll have to pump when I go back to work).
- Meet other mom-to-be's in the area.
- Possibly get leads on pediatricians and day care.
I'll report on it later.
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Date: 2002-08-07 07:47 am (UTC)i've had great success with avent bottles in combination with the avent isis breast pump. it is manual but i have friends who have gotten just as much using the isis as from the pumps they use at the hospital... and it's very economical :) i find it easy to use too.
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Date: 2002-08-07 08:00 am (UTC)Either 6 weeks (natural birth) or 8 weeks (c-section) + about 2 weeks vacation. I'm not eligible for the US family leave act which allows 12 weeks unpaid, because I started this job 1/2/02 - you have to be at an employer for 1 year to be eligible :(
My supervisor uses the Medalia Pump-in-Style for her newborn. She likes it a lot.
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Date: 2002-08-07 08:06 am (UTC)wow we've talked a lot about what kind of leave i would have had if i'd stayed in the states, i bet it would be the same. now i feel extra lucky because i hadn't been at my job for a year either - well just barely one year when my maternity leave started, but i was on sick leave for a few months before that with complications...
i hope you can find good daycare! it's great that you're committed to breastfeeding your baby and willing to pump from work :)
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Date: 2002-08-07 08:08 am (UTC)I just hope it works out.