We had a client in the shop whose two oldest childres were ten months apart. Yep. Ten months.
― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 14 December 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Many congratulations - I hope you are all doing well. Thanks for letting us know, Matt :)
― C J (C J), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
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― jaq (jaq), Saturday, 16 December 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link
As for co-sleeping: I planned to do it with Rufus, but it turned out we kept him awake and vice versa and it just made sense to put him in his crib. Cyrus is more cuddly or has elbows that are not as sharp and sleeping with him works better. We switch beds. Sometimes Cyrus ends up in bed with me; sometimes one of us ends up getting in bed with Rufus. Whatever works to keep the kids from screaming at night. We only have sex in the daytime when the kids are both at daycare.
I think you can make all kinds of rules but many of them go out the window once you deal with the kid(s) you have.
― Maria :D (Maria :D), Saturday, 16 December 2006 07:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Lego Ist My Ego
http://static.flickr.com/124/322918011_150a1e0e4a_m.jpg
but I like books too!
The heater's broke. BAH! I don't care about me being cold - I can always play Wii till but I hate O being cold. :-(
― nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 16 December 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link
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― nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 16 December 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 16 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Thank the Count and Sesame Street.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Ophelia has discovered tantrums. She doesn't want to have her *siesta* so screams and cries for about oh a good ten minutes. I don't know, am I coldhearted for letting her cry it out and fall asleep? I do pick her up once or twice and/or come into her room to let her know that everything's okay but on the whole I side with Thom: She must sleep, it's good for her.
― nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 17 December 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 17 December 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
That's how she asks for the DVD! "DDD, pease!" "Which one, sweetheart?" "Ah-ah-ah!"
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 17 December 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 17 December 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― alison murchie (aimurchie), Monday, 18 December 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link
My sons are currently rather obsessed with the Captain Underpants books. I'm not sure Anne likes the toilet humour (she had to have a word with David about making farts gags in front of teachers) but at least it has captured their imaginations. They have both started trying to write their own comic books and their reading has really improved.
We are also reading the Secrets of Droon fantasy series which Mark in particular seems to like and they still occasionally go back to the Mr Men series.
― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link
this scares me a little though. as long as archel had her baby still inside i could pretend labor was a long way off. now its me or meg next. yikes.
― sunny successor (katarina), Monday, 18 December 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― sunny successor (katarina), Monday, 18 December 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
This is my last week at work... hoorah!
― Meg Busset (Meg Busset), Monday, 18 December 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/329477387_470beb8777_m.jpg
Ava at 7 weeks:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/8/8213599_fb5be44163_m.jpg
WHO WINS?
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
And yeah, hi! Alice is asleep on my lap as I type, can't believe she's 8 days old already. Once we got home from the hospital on Monday (though it felt like we were stuck in there much longer) i kept walking into the bedroom, seeing her in her cot and being like 'shit! who left a baby in here?' I can't believe she's ours forever. Majorly in love :)
The only hard part about this first week has been not being able to breastfeed because of Alice's cleft palate. It's just not the same plugging myself into an electric pump 6 times a day, and since I'm not producing much milk yet we have to feed her mostly formula anyway. But she seems to be thriving so it's just my own disappointment that's the problem i guess. Photos following...
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 22 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 22 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Ready for her close-up:src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/330134652_7cfcbe905f.jpg?v=0"
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 22 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Best of luck with the pumping. I pumped for the 3 weeks the Alex was in the hospital when he was born; it's a lot of work. Come to think of it, Alex also did the Black Power salute a lot when he was a baby...
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Very important question: are you feeling okay over there? I know how hard it can be those first weeks. If you need any support or whatever, email me stevienixed @ gmail dot com :-)
Gimme/email us your flickr account, I wanna keep seeing her! :-)
― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
The crap thing about pumping is that I'm seeing the amount coming out and it looks so feeble, which makes me anxious, which makes the milk less likely to come... so it's a vicious circle. But I'm getting there. And most of the time I'm on a total high despite it all :)
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/20144310@N00/sets/72157594427098596/
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 22 December 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, I had a problem where I was so engorged at first that it seemed like the milk didn't want to come out. What helped was applying hot rags to my breasts with disposable diapers over them (to keep them warm) before pumping. Taking a hot shower or bath would likely do the same. (I don't know if that helps at all, but I suppose it can't hurt...)
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
The type of tea that is supposed to increase milk production is fenugreek. LLL doesn't recommend beer anymore due to the alcohol and also it isn't a substantiated thing that it increases milk production. Frequency of nursing should increase milk production.
I hope that helps some... if I think of anything else (or she mentions anything else) I'll post.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Just heard an awful awful story... Woman being beaten, babies not really being treated well... It makes me so sad. :-(
― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I miss my belly too Nath! Although I still have the sad deflated football version of it... I can't believe Alice came out of there to be honest.
Thanks for all your support - it will make getting up at 4am to feed/express that bit more endurable...
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 22 December 2006 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 23 December 2006 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link