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I have been drinking so much damn water that I got up to pee every 2 hours last night.  Now, though, we just have run-of-the-mill fussiness before bedtime and evening cluster feeding.  I had been trying to establish some more consistency with a nap routine, and it was working out well, but he was only sleeping for like 40 minutes at a time in his crib, and he was just too fussy to handle any sort of milk delay.  Yesterday and today, I wore him or Ben held him for all of his naps, and he was just generally more tolerant.

I think, as some of you mentioned, that at 3 months, my supply has regulated, and my breasts don't always feel full even though there is lots of milk.  I am definitely not used to that because I have been squirting all over the place for the past 90 days, but everything seems to be fine, I think. So, phew.

I got a hair cut today for the first time since mid august, and OMG, I look so much better.  I always want long hair, but when I get to the just-past-my-shoulders stage, I give up and cut it off.  I didn't want to do that this time, but I was carrying at least 5 inches of dead ends, and it was dragging my face down, you know?  The problem, though, is that I was also growing out a massive wall of bangs-- they were straight across and about as long as the tip of my nose, and they started at the middle of my damn head.  My stylist was like, "Okay, listen.  The only way for me to fix these right now is to make them side swept bangs, but they probably won't look great until next time you get your hair cut."  I am glad she was honest with me because they are not my favorite bangs.  She did, though, do a really nice job of taking most of the weight out of them, so they should look okay when I do my own hair-- always a bummer after a blowout. 

I also got this today:

The Nose Frida.  It's a snot sucker.  You put the red end in your mouth and rest the large blue tube against your baby's nostril and suck out all the snot.  DISGUSTING, right?  There's a filter thank God so the snot doesn't actually go in your mouth.  But still.  Way more effective than saline drops and also way more horrifying.  I love Cooper so much I'll literally suck the boogers right out of his nose.  Wow.