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STATUS: Olivia Bee is now 13 days old.

Last nights attempts of 2-hour feedings that little Olivia displays during the day did not go quite as anticipated. It worked for the first half of the evening and gradually went downhill from there.

In the meantime, we re-subscribed ourselves to the entire HBO channel line-up to help us through the wee hours of the morn when there's only paid programming showing. Atleast now we can watch old Sex + the City/Flight of the Conchord shows or movies, et cetera.

Our only hope is that the baby is true 'text book' in that she begins to sleep in 4-6 hour increments (even if during the day) by the second month. In the meantime, I am going to have to establish a plan of attack for when Jason goes back to work next week. Basically, he is off by 2:00 PM (going into work at 5:00 AM, meaning he is awake by 4:30 AM). My request is just to be able to eat breakfast, feed the pets, and maybe pump some milk for the afternoon/evening when Jason gets home...I can always shower when Jason gets home as well as have lunch.

Otherwise, our little Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde is busy cooing all sweet-like in her bassinet by our bed just as she does during the day. It's cloudy out today but the light of day + a little help from coffee is allowing us to stay on the borderline of 1/2 awake and 1/2 asleep.

Tomorrow we're hitting the mall early in the morning since I have no clothes to suit my postpartum figure at the moment and Jason had bought me a gift card for Mother's Day to purchase new clothes since I was feeling down and out while hugely pregnant. I was either pregnant or a size 0 so now I need some flow-y summer dresses/tops that will work once all the weight has been lost and I can utilize after (but yet still holds in the D-size tits I have established). Also, we are going to take a quick trip to Buy Buy Baby for some feeding accessories (ie, nipples, newborn portioned bottles, et cetera.).

And, in case anyone is wondering....I gained 45 lbs. while pregnant and have already lost 18 lbs just breastfeeding. I still have four more weeks before I can begin my workout regimen again; however, have been focusing on the meals I do take in (ie, Special K cereal within the first hour of waking up for breakfast, coffee - NOT GOOD, but wakes me up, salads, sandwiches, Lean Cuisines, nuts for snacks, and gallons of ice water). Basically, I am back to the weight I was when I first moved to NYC but with the weight primarily in the tits and mid-section (which is gradually going down by the day).

That's my news for the day so far.