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I'm struggling with the water drinking its killer! I also had no appetite when I first got home. It's slowly coming back but it's more time oriented than actually feeling hunger pangs.

My DD loves to be held too! All babies must!

I'm so glad I'm not the only one with this problem. DH is a fireman and works 24 hr shifts so I'm home by myself with the baby 24 hrs at a time about 3 days a week. He's been giving me a hard time about not eating regularly. He seems to think that I should be able to cook myself something whenever I want and that I should also do that regularly on some sort of schedule. Basically I should be on a schedule like the baby lol. I tried to explain to him that sometimes I just can't. He doesn't get it.

I ate a lot of frozen food that I nuked and granola bars. Do you have a baby carrier? Your LO can sleep while you eat.

I swear my baby knows when I'm about to finally sit down to eat. She *always* wakes up screaming about 60 seconds before I start a meal. I've found that the Moby wrap works pretty well. I put her in the sling, throw together a sandwich, and eat it over her head, while I rock my body back and forth to try to get her to sleep. It's not glamorous, but it kind of works. As far as drinking water goes, I always keep a full water bottle on the couch where I feed her, and I constantly sip water while she's drinking her milk.

The first few months, I ate fried rice for lunch almost every day cause it was easy to make a big batch and reheat as needed. I also had a snack basket near my nursing chair with fruit, granola bars, nuts, and other easy to snack items. Baby carrier also helped to free up the other hand.

I totally know what you're going through. When LO was a newborn, I wouldn't eat until 3-4pm! And it would be just toast or something I can eat standing up with one hand! Eating was such a challenge.

I would do a lot of finger foods. It wasn't healthy at all.... but I was hungry! Frozen pizza was a big one for me.