Oh how I hate blah days, outgrowing bras, and whining

The kids, who normally spend many hours outside in our back yard, are driving me INSANE today. They simply cannot figure out how to speak quietly, get along with each other, clean up messes... . They're begging for candy, they won't eat anything considered "food", are cranky because of it. Ahhhhh!

My IL's were over last night. My MIL went to the store for me, such a sweet MIL! I know I am a rarity in that my MIL get along swimmingly well. I feel blessed.

I've deemed the "take it easy or the bleeding picks up" as an old wives tale or something midwives and mothers say to get postpartum women to rest after childbirth. First, it seems logical that if you are laying down all day the blood doesn't have gravity to help it out. You stand up, blood comes out. Duh! Does this mean you are actually bleeding MORE? I don't think so. Every explanation I've gotten about why you "bleed more" if you don't take it easy doesn't make any sense. Here's my anatomy of childbirth lesson for the day. When you give birth and the placenta detaches from the side of your uterus there are a bazillion (yes, I've counted them, this is an official technical observation) little connections. When the uterus contracts it closes off those little connections and thus stops the bleeding. This is why you want your uterus to be firm and contracting after childbirth (a process aided by breastfeeding, my little breast-is-best plug for the day). Anyway, so you want a firm uterus to stop the bleeding. The explanation for increased bleeding with increased activity my midwife gave me is this: the uterus becomes soft and allows those little connections to re-open thus increasing bleeding. Ok, except that why does the uterus soften with activity? That doesn't make sense. And there is no contracting/cramping when I take it easier, so that theory doesn't hold up to my experience. When I questioned this explanation the midwife (and my mother, as well as a couple of friends) they all resorted to "I don't know, but it seems to be true". Uh-huh. Well, I'm not buying it. I won't go running any marathons, but the dishes need done, the laundry is piling up, the kids are sick of convenience food (as am I), the floor is covered with toys, and I'm sick of sitting in the middle of it waiting for someone to come and do MY work. If I use 2 cloth menstrual pads in a day instead of just one, so be it. It's a small sacrifice.

And on another note, when you bend over to remove laundry from the dryer and your boobs fall completely out of your bra, you need a bigger bra. Just FYI.