Hooray!

I’m back in my pre-pregnancy jeans!  I don’t know if most women find this satisfying primarily because of a body-image thing, but personally, when compared with the satisfaction of not having to buy a new round of clothes, I’m about 30-70 in favor of the latter.

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Things I never thought I’d worry about

For one, having the sheets soaked not with baby pee or spit-up, nor a toppled glass of water, nor even sweat on an exceptionally hot and muggy night when the window unit has crapped out; no, I would expect all these things as perfectly reasonable events.  I would not expect to worry about waking up [...]

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Month 1

This is the beginning of a monthly series, inspired by/shamelessly ripped off from Dooce’s series of newsletters addressed to her own daughter (now daughters).  Can I even claim to have ripped it off if it’s not a particularly novel idea, but merely the last place I saw such a thing?  Where’s my copy of the [...]

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On the other hand, there is this:

And this:

And these:

*Recovered with the equivalent of a “restart”: taking the battery out of the camera and putting it back in.

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Woe

The oven is broken–this discovered after a lovely natural gas smell filled the house.  Exactly what you want with an infant around, right? Repair person can’t come till tomorrow morning, and I am certainly not sticking my head in the oven to see what’s what, even if I know how to turn off the gas [...]

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Product review

Product: Moby Wrap
Suggested retail price: $39.95
Ease of use: If you can put on a shirt, you can put on a Moby wrap.
Comfort for baby-wearer: Having been pregnant, carrying at least this much weight on my front end for a few months, it’s nothing.  Wide fabric doesn’t dig anywhere.  Did, however, require installing an A/C unit [...]

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Happy Father’s Day!

In the few brief moments we snagged for breakfast this morning while Nuala was tolerating her bouncy seat, we listened to a snippet of Weekend Edition including a bit of an interview with General Patton’s grandson, who has written a biography of his family for Smithsonian.  The latter is a new father himself, and expressed [...]

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Friday Agenda

1. Wake at 1, 2, and 3-hour intervals to feed the sweet little beast.
2. Try out BumGenius diapers.  Marvel at Humpty-Dumpty appearance and rejoice at short-circuiting “We’re running out of diapers!” anxiety.

3. Discover that this baby requires the regular microfiber insert rather than just the thinner doubler to catch all that pee.  Apologize to Spouse [...]

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Champion sleeper

Yesterday, Nuala spent the entire day either eating or sleeping, with moments of fuss in between.  I doubt I saw her eyes open longer than a half hour.  And since we’re conditioned to expect that a sleep-filled day necessarily translates to a sleepless night, a good bit of anxiety set in when she started the [...]

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Three weeks down

Four thousand, one hundred five to go. Give or take.*
We’d settled into a kind of routine by last weekend, although of course the instant I recognized it as such, Nuala decided that eating every 2-2 1/2 hours, rather than every 3-3 1/2 hours, is where it’s at.  And she’s also decided that bellying up to [...]

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