Parenting

It's a Girl!

January 23, 2010

Damn, I hate it when he’s right.  But he was.  From the beginning.  The day I peed on the $14 stick and announced our pregnancy status to Craig, he said “it’s a girl.”  I was not as convinced.  Throughout the pregnancy he held firm that we were having a girl, while I waivered.  And secretly hoped.  [...]

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Who took my happy, pleasant, smiling baby

December 29, 2009

and replaced her with a child that avoids day sleep like her momma avoids low-fat foods?  Seriously.  I am over the moon grateful that Baby Girl now sleeps through the night pretty regularly but the child still needs to sleep during the day.  Because, you know, she’s a baby.  And she gets cranky when she [...]

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Oh the Pain!

December 1, 2009

If given the option of choosing between holding down my baby and listening to her scream as she gets her vaccination shots or having my heart cut out with a butter knife (and no anesthesia) I choose the latter.  Thank you very much. I thought I was prepared.  I mean, I’ve heard stories of mothers [...]

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Swaddle Fail

November 19, 2009

After a couple of nights of Baby Girl being harder to put to sleep, being more restless while she was asleep and waking up earlier, I decided to take on the battle of Operation: Sleep 2009.  I gave her a little bit more to eat at her last feeding, kept the lights low, swaddled her [...]

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Talk to me about feedings, schedules & bedtime

November 16, 2009

I was never good at math and I still have trouble with my lefts and rights sometimes, but this has me really stumped.  I cannot figure out if I’m supposed to have Baby Girl on a feeding schedule by now and how to work that feeding schedule into bedtime.  Background:  She generally eats 4 ounces every [...]

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Movin' On Up

November 5, 2009

Last night was our first attempt at trying to establish a “night time routine”.  Baby Girl got her bath at 8:00, was being fed at 8:30 and gently placed in her crib at 9:00 …  at 9:04 Craig looked at me with heartbreak in his eyes and said “Why do we have to move her [...]

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The Best Excuse Ever

November 3, 2009

Had big plans for blogging today but the child refused to sleep unless in my arms. I am equal parts honored and frustrated. Posts about ending my maternity leave and how all things are not created equal to come. Because I can only type so much with one hand (but darn she’s cute when she [...]

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Life's Little Mysteries

October 24, 2009

So, if it’s 45 minutes before she’s due to eat and she’s fussing her face off and nothing calms her down -not a diaper change, not walking or rocking, not taking a layer of clothing off – so I feed her. And 2 ounces into the bottle she falls asleep was she hungry or tired??

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