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I can sleep on my back I can take extra hot baths I can eat sushi with abandon I can plan ahead and have a few beers I can see my ankles I can play with my lovely baby girl Postpartum, yay! Just a few things I think about when I can't get back to sleep after a 3am feeding. Some women love being pregnant. I was not one of them. Current Location: Tv room Current Mood: thankful Current Music: giants bball
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Doing my first stint in Solo Parenting this weekend. J is on a business trip schedule to come back Sunday afternoon. The nanny left Friday 6PM, giving me 44 hours of solo parenting. And just as I start writing this, she wakes from her snooze. They aren't exactly NAPS yet, too short - but she sleeps well at night so I'm trying not to worry. And will grill the pediatrician on her sleep pattern next week. We'll see how long I can write before she demands undivided attention. 9 Day I go back to work after being off since Christmas. Mixed feeling about that - ready to get back into the game, not ready to leave E for 8+ hours a day. I bought a nanny-cam type device. Linksys (cisco) WVC80N. I want to be able to see E from work, not spy on the nanny. I got the camera working inside the house. Can't figure out how to get it working from outside our home network. It doesn't seem to like my 2WIRE AT&T router. Trying to setup this sort of stuff, where I'm clearly out of my depth, aggravates me to no end. I'm thinking of hiring a Craigslist geek to do it for me. Or return the camera. I found a cool website called Made By Joel http://madebyjoel.blogspot.com/ of crafty kid things. Marble track made from a cereal box; baskets woven from magazines, mobiles, paper crafts. Very little is for a 3 month old, but great ideas for when she gets older. Ok, times up. Gotta go. Tags: baby, parenting Current Location: home office Current Music: stand by me soundtrack
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So I had a C-section (after 20 hrs of labor. ugh. thank goodness for epidurals). The tummy is going down, so just recently I've been able to see my scar. And wow was it apparent, dark and raised which I just assumed was scar tissue that I'd live with for the rest of my life. Not that I was THAT worried about it - no one sees me there (except J, who didn't seem phased). The cut was below the bikini line after all.
But today I had my 3rd post partum bath. They make you wait 6 weeks before bathing, plus I rarely have time for more than a shower. In fact some days when E is fussy, I don't even get to showering.
Anyway, we have a system now that E & I bath together, then I pass her to J, who deals with getting her in her nightclothes. Then I turn up the hot water and have a relaxing 10 or 20 minutes. (Except last time, when the doorbell rang with dinner 2 minutes into my bath. Sigh.)
Back to today - relaxing in the bath, I started poking at the scar, wondering it this raised line was a scab not scar tissue. And to my surprise it was neither - it was glue. Apparently they closed my up with this rubber-cement type glue. In the hot bath it just took a little rubbing to get it off. Now the scar is hardly noticable (again, if you were looking down there for it, which you wouldn't be). Yay. Sometimes it's the insignificant things that make you feel good.
Baby been asleep for an hour. Its only 10:30 but I'm calling it a night. Tags: health, medical Current Location: bed Current Mood: good
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It's been a bit over a year since I posted, and I had been winding down how often I posted. I think I'm ready to get back to it. But this is a relaunch, and I think I'll be largely focusing on my Motherhood experience. Meaning, this will be the journal of the next-stage of my life. The past 4 or 5 years of my blogging was me coming out of the isolation that was my marriage to Thor. And finding my way on my own in this exciting weird and varied world, rediscovering what it means to be me. And now I have this new life. New man, new baby - new priorities. And new thoughts to blog about. Yeah, yeah, I'm not the first woman to have a baby. But I do have MY thoughts, questions, challenges on Mothering (and Life) that I want to record. Of course, I do have a FB account, 2 twitter accounts, and a corporate blog not to mention private email correspondence that I also plan to keep going. And with the baby I find it hard to keep up with those. I'm not sure I'll be able to keep this blog up. But here's to best intentions. Tags: baby, family, new life Current Location: bed Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: baby monitor static
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