when will the rest of the baby weight melt off?

i can't seem to remember important things like to call and make an appt for my eldest with plastic surgeon to have stitches checked, so i don't know why i think i would remember when the rest of the baby weight melted away. but, i'm 6.5 weeks post-partum and i'm more than ready for it to bid 'adieu'. the mundane details of life - i think i have this written somewhere in my pregnancy weight journal but can't manage to find that in all the boxes...i do know last time it was gone by the time i headed to italia with swanky and he was 3.5 months. i don't think i can wait that long. but, i figure i need to focus on getting enough sleep and that will help enable the process. speaking of, it's 12.21 am and i should get on that since we are trying to get LC to drop the 3am feed which means he's up at 6.30 am (he's already failed once after a week of trying).
swanky is giving us a hard time - he's all or nothing. adorable or horrible. wants to hug & kiss you or bite you. terrible 2's.
had my first solo dinner with my hubby post-bebe at bar bambino which was fabulous. can't say all the cheese i ate will be helping that weight 'melt away'. love that when i got home my 4.5 yr old asked 'how was your dinner?' like he was genuiney interested and then, asked me what i ate. so mature and such the child of a foodie.
off to bed - allergies are killing me...

disease & sleep-deprivation...

i've already had it with this sleep-deprivation bit and it's only been 17 days since LC was born. i seem to think i was more game for it the last 2 times, but, honestly, i probably wasn't. everyone always says how great it is that i sleep train my kids so young, so they are sleeping through the night at 8 weeks for P. and 12 weeks for swanky. (and, this is sleeping 8 hour stretches; none of this where some docs considering sleeping through the night at 5-6 hour stretches.) but, what they don't realize is, is that it is totally self-serving. if i could operate like a 'normal person' (read not sideswipe cars, not be able to form sentences, not forget half of my obligations), i might be game for this longer. i'm looking forward to the baby nurse showing up next week (which is a first for us after the 4th pregnancy). hopefully, LC will have dropped the 2 am feed when we introduce the bottle topper in a few days. and, my friend said the nurse will feed him the 5am feed (with pumped breastmilk), so i'll get some sleep for a few weeks. this is why i waited to have her come til he was 3.5 weeks old as that is the height of my desperation with the sleep-deprivation. my husband said someone pointed out to him that sleeping in 2 hour chunks is considered torture according to the geneva convention and that is what all mothers go through.

so, we got some bad news 2 days ago. dr. brock called to say LC does have carnitine transporter deficiency. my breathing became quickly stifled and i felt a weight on my chest. good news is its entirely treatable, bad news is complications can be dire and there will be a lot to deal with when he's sick (and doesn't feel like eating). this disease affects 1 in 40,000 and so would be it our luck - now, we've managed to get this and toxo which was 1 in 200,000 odds. not a huge good luck streak...more on this later.