Slowly Losing My Mind

4 Month Shots Today. Hold Me.

January 26, 2010

Thank you, Dear Lord for making it so that children can’t remember their first few years on this earth.  Because I am sure that if C could remember that two months ago, we took her to this same place, held her down and let a stranger stick a needle in her thigh.  THREE TIMES.  That [...]

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Work: 451 Krista: 6

January 6, 2010

Does it make me a bad mom if for the THIRD weekend in row, I call my mom and ask her to watch my baby while I go to work on Saturday? Folks, working is kicking my ass. Like it’s the fourth grade bully that looks at me cross eyed as I walk by with [...]

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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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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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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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The Choices We Make

October 19, 2009

People warned me about this… sort of… I heard “your life is going to change” so many times during the last nine months that I wanted to throat-punch anyone who dared give me that knowing look and start to open their mouth to grace me with their words of wisdom about how I wouldn’t be [...]

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40 weeks + 6 days

September 29, 2009

4o weeks and six days… that’s how pregnant I am. Remember that episode of Friends where Rachel is a week overdue and really cranky? I can now say that someone who went a week past her due date wrote that episode and every moment was completely true. I am anxious. I am cranky. I am [...]

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Well there goes that plan…

September 10, 2009

So, I learned yesterday that the fastest way to get me to forget all of the questions I wanted to ask my doctor is to ask me if I wanted to schedule an induction for next Wednesday. NEXT Wednesday?!? I’ll only be 39 weeks on Wednesday are we really talking about this? I politely declined, [...]

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The Best Laid Plans

September 7, 2009

Over the last few weeks I’ve had more questions about labor than I thought a girl could possibly get. When it became OK to publicly discuss the status of my cervix (nope, not dilated yet, not even a little), the position of the baby (don’t think he/she dropped yet, but not really sure) and my [...]

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September 3, 2009

Dear Munchkin, We have another doctor’s appointment tomorrow and two things will make Mommy very happy. First of all if you’re heartbeat is all nice and rhythmic again and secondly if you’ve done as I asked and started to plan your departure from my belly. According to my boss I can’t expect people to do [...]

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