What the experts have to say. I’m also reading a lot of women who say that having two younger children is difficult at first, because they’re both at such demanding stages in their lives, but that it gets better later on, because their interests are so similar. Whereas having the kids spaced further apart is [...]
Archive > May 2006
I give up.
I re-read all my posts about how horrible I felt when I was pregnant and how ungodly exhausting I felt after giving birth. My mind can remember nothing but the beauty of seeing the baby’s face for the first time, and I want another one. Someone slap me, please. Seriously.
You make me smile.
It took three months, but it finally happened. I finally feel bonded and in complete love with the baby. I no longer mind the feedings, the times when he’s awake, changing his clothes repeatedly from spit up, et cetera. Most of the times he’s screaming (which are few and far between) I can keep my [...]
No pictures.
I had the nagging sense all morning to call and confirm the photo session today for Mike and the baby, but I did not. I got up at 7, got the baby up, dressed/washed/fed/played, then put him down to nap for an hour. Mike got up at 8, took a shower, then listened for the [...]
Breastfeeding, ovulation and birth control.
The baby has been on a nursing strike since the day after Mother’s Day, approximately 11 days now, and shows no signs of wanting to get back on the breast. I called my doctor today to find out if I needed to be on a more potent form of birth control because of this, and [...]
R.I.P. Desmond Dekker.
Dekker has died. Beyond sad, and if you’ve never listened to him, now is the time. iTunes carries lots of his stuff.
“You’re not the only one with mixed emotions…”
While Mike was taking the baby out visiting on Wednesday, the baby had a meltdown, and Mike experienced what I was talking about here firsthand. He came home that night with a face like thunder, and I thought it was because he had had to do everything himself that night (including giving the baby a [...]
