Em’s wedding
Just got home from my sister Emily’s beach wedding in NJ - it was beautiful! It was perfect weather, great to see family and friends, and Rosie was an absolute doll on both flights! She slept or nursed the whole time. I had people come up to me at baggage claim after both flights to tell me “your baby was so good”
Of course, the only meltdown she had the entire time was actually during the wedding - as soon as I walked down the aisle with the wedding party - she started crying - poor Joe missed the whole ceremony trying to console my hungry girl! In hindsight, I probably should have brought a bottle and either pumped or expressed a little to keep her satisfied in this kind of situation - luckily the ceremony was only about 30 min… I will probably have Joe give her a bottle soon to practice in case another situation like this comes up…
The only downside to the whole weekend was the constant unsolicited advice we got from EVERYBODY, family, people at the wedding, strangers at the hotel, etc. Especially when Rosie was being fussy - everybody thinks they know how to calm a fussy baby - Ugh! Why do people do this? I made a mental note to never try to tell anybody else how to calm their baby. Joe got the worst of it during the wedding - I think a lot of people assume dads can’t handle their own babies - some of the advice he got was “put a carrot in her mouth” “put her on your shoulder and pat her bottom” “she needs water” and a complete stranger came up and said “want me to take her?” - like he would just hand his baby to a strange person…
Luckily, advice was the worst thing that Rosie had to endure, She seemed to be nursing constantly (for comfort I think) and if she wasn’t, I would tell people, oh, she is just getting ready to eat and I would start to reach under my shirt, that always stopped people from getting too close. Plus, I wore her in my moby wrap, or Joe had her in our stretchy pouch sling most of the time, so we got out of the whole “pass the baby” thing. I know a couple people were offended or hurt that they didn’t get to hold the baby - but too bad - she is still just a tiny baby and she is still very delicate - it would be too chaotic to have to allow everybody to grab her and hold her and pass her around.
Speaking of nursing, I am now a pro at NIP. I walked around the hotel with her latched on, sucking away, nursed during pretty much every meal, nursed walking on the beach, nursed during the wedding reception (my mom joked that she was surprised I didn’t walk down the aisle nursing!) - and I am sure only about 5% of the people who saw me actually knew what I was doing. I don’t use a blanket or anything, just a system with a shirt over a tanktop, so when the shirt is pulled up, and the tanktop pulled down, I only have to expose enough of the boob for Rosie to latch onto and most people just think I an holding my baby and her face is turned towards me. I think that using a blanket just draws attention to what I am doing - like a big arrow “hey - baby attached to a boob under here!”
Oh, Rosie definitely takes after her dad when it comes to farting and pooping - my girl is amazingly loud! Burps too! Joe and I always have to ask each other “are you sure that wasn’t you?” because we find it hard to believe that our sweet little girl can make such loud noise!
