Thursday, March 01, 2012

My nursing fan club

There is a blog that I enjoy reading and one that probably a lot of you have heard of called C Jane, Enjoy It. If you haven't heard of her, you may have heard of her sister Nie Nie (the woman who was in a terrible plane crash a few years ago that burned 80% of her body). Nie Nie's blog is good and uplifting, but C Jane's blog is snarky and often sarcastic--can you guess which one I tend to like more? :) Anyway, C Jane had a baby back in November and so lots of her posts are about mothering a newborn and balancing that new baby with her other children (she has 2 others). She recently posted a 2 part series called "While I was nursing" and I thought it was hilarious.

And completely different from my own experience. Completely.

I think that my boys have some kind of built in sonar or high frequency hearing like a dog who hears a whistle that no human ear can hear, because when I sit down to nurse Zach, it doesn't matter where Owen and Eli are, they seem to magically appear and want to sit right next to me or on me or behind me. Owen often thinks he needs to rest his head on my arm right at that moment or "help" me nurse baby by adjusting my positioning (read: boob). This is also the time when they NEED something like a drink or a toy or their movie turned on.

It's frustrating (and funny).

So I guess if I were to submit a pic to C Jane's series it would be a picture of me nursing Zach and being smothered by my two 3-year-olds.

Fun.

4 comments:

Lisa said...

Hahaha!! I can totally relate. That's exactly what happens at my house when I have a nursing baby.

Ann richey said...

You are a wonderful mom to some wonderful little boys (well, maybe not so little any more--except for Zach. Love you!

Mary said...

Thanks for sharing her blog. How funny. My nursing story is more like yours the kids are RIGHT there. But I could relate to her post it would just be "While I was taking a bathroom break"

Laura said...

That is a CLASSIC picture. haha I love it! I don't know what it is about little kids, but they're fascinated by nursing. My nieces and nephews all want to come and see how I'm feeding baby haha.