I have not had much to say here lately, though I’ve been reading a lot.
OLC and I went to a La Leche meeting Tuesday. Fun–this time OLC wasn’t the only mobile baby there. She was a little wound up the whole time, crawling after the other kids, and going up to meet and […]
(Thinking of Guilt-Free Homeschooling’s “If this is HOMEschooling, why are we always in the CAR?”)
I suppose I should get this birth story done and out of the way. I think I left off where we had decided to go to the hospital to get OLC checked over, by ambulance because I was a little […]
I’ve been reading too many doctor blogs lately, and more than once I’ve come across this little line:
“You’d want anesthesia for your appendectomy, why wouldn’t you want it in childbirth?”
They must teach it in med school or something. Now a variation of it appears in this article. Argh. Well, might as well […]
So I took the homeopathic remedy, five tiny pellets under the tongue, not expecting it to have any effect one way or the other. But just before dinner, I went to the bathroom, and found bloody show. About time! MFH made fajitas for dinner, we ate, and then called our midwife.
The exact […]
One good thing I did for the pregnancy was to set aside one extra-large maternity dress for the last month of pregnancy, when I knew I would be really huge and tired of all my other maternity clothes. But next time I’m going to have at least four more of them in reserve, for […]
Sometime I’ll write out the whole birth story, but for now I’ll just throw out some snippets.
1. Natural childbirth advocates aren’t kidding when they talk about endorphins–I felt just great after the birth, even with some extra blood loss and a nice jagged tear. For my stitches, I wanted all the drugs they […]
Our Little Cutie (OLC) was born early on the 25th. The home birth went great, and much faster than expected–eight hours from first labor signs to delivery. Then we ended up spending a few days in the hospital, for some breathing trouble, and then jaundice. She nursed well right after birth, but […]
We’ve finished most of the seventy-some things that I wanted to get done before the baby came. At this point I’m mostly resting, puttering, and waiting for labor to start. I’ve had more time to get out for walks; Sunday we went to the Tamarack Nature Center and took a long, slow walk […]
MFH and I did a lot of running around on Saturday, looking for the “right” car seat/child restraint system in the “right” pattern, and eventually found one. (It didn’t occur to us until we were in the fourth store to ask if they had what we wanted out back somewhere; I claim advanced […]
I had a baby shower from our church on Monday, and my dentist appointment on Tuesday, and now I am free except for work (proposal deadline next week, baby permitting). The shower went well, except the Target registry for some reason messed up, and we received four of the same baby carrier. One […]