Zatera Ul

He’s a little sweetheart. Big head, lots of blond hair. Still nursing along just fine. He only cries when he’s too full of gas.

Born Monday evening, after a very long, very slow day of labor. Somehow everything managed to turn out more or less orthogonal to OLC’s birth: what was hard last time was easy this time, and what was easy last time was hard this time. The baby and the rest of us are [...]

A couple of posts back, I mentioned that I had read somewhere that formula feeding had been estimated to lead to about 4 additional infant deaths per 1000. Here’s a reference for that; kind of a meta-study. Their actual conclusion is 3-4 additional infant deaths per 1000 in the U.S.: a relative [...]

Recently I had to create a password for a new online account. One of the password creation rules was:
No two consecutive characters may be identical.
I suppose there’s some value in making sure your users don’t create passwords like “AAAAAA”, but come on, no consecutive repeated characters at all?! That does nothing to make [...]

1. That breastfeeding success rates for hospital births would significantly improve if they simply fed the mothers better. Not being allowed to eat or drink in labor, then having a good chance of not being fed a real meal until hours and hours after, probably does not help the milk to come in. [...]