October 31, 2012

• We're going to the city this weekend. I'm very excited! We're staying with my dad for a couple of nights and plan on surprising our friends by dropping by for a birthday gathering at a pub. Obviously, we're not telling anyone we're coming My dad and step mom have been dying to babysit, so we can leave the kidlet with them for the evening. I'll be bringing my pump with me so that I can pump at least once while we're out so that I don't get engorged and the missed feeding doesn't mess with my supply. I'll probably just dump it since I'll be drinking and don't really want to be carrying around full bottles in my purse. It might be a little weird to hog a bathroom stall for 15 minutes so I can pump, but whatever. A nursing mom's gotta do what she's gotta do. I won't be drinking too heavily anyway since I feel like an old fart and will want to be home before midnight and I want to be able to nurse H to sleep if I have to when we get back to my dad's, though I think that's probably more for my own benefit than H's. But, having said that, I wouldn't be surprised if my lack of presence makes her feel uneasy. I can picture it now, I get back and she's fussy; extremely tired but fighting it.

  Anyway, it will be fun to see Vancouver again. We'll have the entire day Saturday and I'd really like to go see Cloud Atlas as well, but that would be leaving H with her grandparents twice in one day and I don't think I can do that. I can't imagine spending that much time away from my baby in one day, missing at least two feeds. I don't see why we can't just go see it with her, but last time I said to N that we should just take her with us he thought I was totally crazy. If she starts crying I'll simply step out, but she's a good baby and I could distract her with nursing. For all we know she might love looking at the big screen with all the huge images moving around on it.

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