Today we went to the Mother's Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes to donate some of William's milk.
I weaned myself last week and had a bunch in the freezer that we hadn't delivered to the hospital. It was hard for us to go over there, but good. It felt good to see how William will continue to impact the world. Either through helping other Preemie babies and families by the milk donation, or by research that will be done on his milk that will continue to change Preemie protocol in health care.
This milk bank hasn't been around for too long, so I'm so glad it's an available resource to us. Plus, Jeff and I are relieved that William's milk won't have to go to waste (remember when I spilled the first full bottle of milk I pumped and cried for an hour afterward?).
Eventually, William's name will be memorialized on their Milky Way wall, as a baby whose milk helped other children.
The organization seems pretty cool, and the ladies over there were super nice.
In other news... we got our hands on a "W" car flag, so we flew that for a while on our car yesterday. Then we took it down because it made too many distracting noises while we were on the interstate...
We're flying the W in our apartment now and pass underneath it whenever we go into our living room.
I have been able to take some solid walks over the last few days, and I'm hoping to physically get back into shape by doing some yoga.
I tried my hand at playing violin a little bit for the first time yesterday at church. It felt REALLY weird to hold it. I haven't played since August sometime, so I'm also glad that my equipment is still in good working order.
My other crowning achievements of late include grocery shopping and cooking the occasional meal. And as helpful as it is to pour out my heart to the world via blog, I'm working on setting up grief counseling for myself.
Thank you to everyone who has continued to send prayers our way, and also for flowers and cards. We have trouble facing the cards every day, but are slowly working our way through them.
