March 2012
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February 2012
17 posts
Logan had a difficult evening last night. By difficult, I mean, difficult for her, not that she was being difficult. You see, she’s had a cough for 2 weeks and I think now all that gross sludge is starting to drain, and the poor thing does not know how to deal with it. She coughs in the middle of the night and it wakes her, and then she cries out to be comforted. At about 1am, the 4th time...
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My So-Called (TTC) Life: Cloth Diapering 2.0 →
mysocalledttclife:
You guys have ALL been SO helpful with your comments and advice on this! Man, you really can ask 10 women and you get 10 different answers.
What I’m thinking is this and you guys tell me if I’m crazy and/or wrong:
@BumpyJourney on Twitter suggested I look into the AWESOME free cloth diaper…
My pail just hangs, no can. No stink unless I stick my head in there and take...
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My So-Called (TTC) Life: Cloth Diaper Debate →
mysocalledttclife:
Until recently, I’d never really considered cloth diapering. But my middle sister, who is expecting twin girls in April and who already has a 20 month old in diapers, recently attended a workshop on cloth diapering and is planning on making the switch.
So it got me thinking: should we be cloth…
Hey B!
We cloth diaper, and LOVE it :) It’s just hard now that...
Free Bamboobies! →
You just pay shipping! These were my favorite nursing pads in those first few months of nursing. They don’t show through your bra, they’re super absorbent, and super soft! Go get yourself a pair! I actually got 2 pairs when they ran this same special last summer :)
A long time coming
Seven and a half months, to be exact.
Joe and I are going out on a date! Alone! No baby!
And the flurry of questions in my head:
But I’ve never left Logan alone at night. What if she wakes up? I nurse her to sleep—would she happily take a bottle instead and fall right back asleep? Oh my God, should Joe and I go alone, or should we invite one of our couple friends that we love...
New York Times Article on Co-Sleeping/Bedsharing →
This article is older, but still good. Logan has been night waking a lot lately, and after getting yet more advice today to just let her cry-it-out, I had to find something to make me feel better about not wanting to do that. I think I will try bedsharing again some nights, if only to eliminate me having to get out of bed to go to her. I stopped at 4 months because she was waking up a lot, but at...
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Our Beach Baby.: Mamas & Papas, we DESPERATELY... →
ourbeachbaby:
Recently, Drew’s sleeping has gone HAYWIRE. Maybe it’s teething, maybe it’s his cough? But regardless, everything that used to work has gone straight out the window. I haven’t finished started Kim West’s “Good Night Sleep Tight” book {who has time to read anyway??}.
In a nutshell, Drew now…
Hey Tessa!
Logan has never slept more than 5 hours in a row, and even then...
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See Kai Run Shoes ON SALE
On www.myhabit.com
I’ve heard a lot of great things and I purchased a pair for Logan yesterday. I thought they’d be sold out by now but there are lots of pairs to be had (for boys AND girls!). Must. Control. Myself.
:)
Life lately
I was just thinking back to when I was still pregnant, about how I used to post a few times a week. So many changes going on with my body and so many exciting things to look forward to. What type of produce my baby compared to week after week fascinated me, as did shopping for little dresses and imagining the future to no end. I daydreamed a lot and wrote a lot of it out on here. But now that...
January 2012
12 posts
call her blessed: Tips from a friend about Labor... →
callherblessed:
A friend of mine just recently gave birth to a beautiful baby girl :) She sent me an email about a week after her delivery and passed down some really awesome insider tips about labor and delivery (things she learned, things she wished she remembered etc). I wanted to share them with you all!
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My 2 cents :)
-Bring the nursing bra and your Lansinoh...
Was going through my archives just now, and currently feeling very nostalgic. I was 16 weeks pregnant this time last year, and I couldn’t wait to find out if we were having a girl or boy. How time flies, as they say. How is it that it has only been 29 weeks (yes, I still count in weeks!) since Logan was born and I now couldn’t imagine my life to be any different than what it is now?...
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“ourbabyx replied to your post: Thrifting
Are you still couponing too?”
I am trying, but it is so time-intensive that although I have the coupons, I just don’t make it to the stores to actually buy the stuff! I get the coupons for free from my boss though so I’m not buying the paper just for the coupons (otherwise, I would feel the pressure to actually use them!).
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Thrifting
So, now that I can fit in normal clothes (thank you, breastfeeding), and we have a new house (read: lots of empty spaces that need to be filled), I am loving thrift store shopping again. I’ve started a new Tumblr to document my finds:
shoppingseconds.tumblr.com
Already, I have a few things I want to share! My number one thing that I love to shop for is books for Logan (see previous post)....
“I think parenting young children (and old ones, I’ve heard) is a little like...”
– Good stuff from this honest article that puts it all in perspective. (via ilovebean)
This is beautiful—thank you for sharing, Laurel!
From my drafts folder:
01-09-12: Logan is 6 Months and 1 Week Old
While I was pregnant, I dreamed of how everything would be once I had my baby girl in my arms. I imagined what she would look like. Whose eyes, whose nose, whose lips she would have. Will her skin be creamy like her Daddy’s or olive like mine? Perhaps a cross? What would her voice sound like? What will her first word be? I...
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter....”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Seemed like an appropriate quote for the day, no?
(via jamiek)
I couldn’t not share this. It is appropriate always, but today especially. Welcome to the world, Josie!
(via braincooksidea)
December 2011
15 posts
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Sleep--1 Week Later
So, it’s been a week since I wrote my last post about sleep. Short story—she’s doing great and is sleeping 4-5 hour stretches mostly! :)
Long story: I think she was just hungry so she was waking up more often. I can barely keep up with pumping at work and how much she’s eating at daycare. I started her on rice cereal a few weeks ago, just a couple bites here and there, and...
Seven
Seven years ago today (exactly 2,556 days), the stars aligned and the universe conspired to bring me and Joe together to the same bar on a cold (and very random) Wednesday evening at 8pm (ish). Whoever said that you don’t meet worthwhile people in bars (or the person you will spend the rest of your life with, in my case) was very, very wrong. Cheers to 7 years, and here’s to 70 more!
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Bamboobies Nursing Pads on Babysteals
I loved these nursing pads for the first couple of months of nursing. I highly recommend them—super absorbent, soft, and you can’t see the outlines through your bra! Here’s the link :) Oh, and fun name too!
Night 2
Well, night 2 didn’t go as well as night 1, and although I’m feeling a little defeated (why must I be so hard on myself?), I really need to adjust my perspective as, well, it was ONLY night 2! She cried longer when I put her down, maybe about 40 mins. It wasn’t a continuous cry though, more like she cried for 3 mins, settled down and would fall asleep, then wake up a minute later...
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Sleep Update--Night 1
First off, let me just say that I was expecting the worst. I was thinking I would have to listen to Logan cry, scream, get worked up, then refuse to sleep after that. And that I would be sooooo tired today, but it’s ok because work is not that busy for me yet. But but but! This little girl surprised me. It went so well that I’m hoping we can continue to have evenings like last night....
Sleep
So I’ve been reading a few posts on sleep recently, and it has motivated me to work on some things with Logan. I’ve been back at work part-time for 3 weeks now and I still have the rest of the month until I go back to a full-time schedule. And recently, Logan has been waking every 2hrs in the evenings. I had no problem with it while on leave (and we mostly coslept). And really...
seven foods you should never eat →
champagnetoasts:
An eye-opening evaluation of some everyday eats. Most interesting to me was non-organic potatoes: who knew that they were not only sprayed but DOUSED in chemicals to prevent “premature” maturation?! #gross
1. The Endocrinologist Won’t Eat: Canned Tomatoes [the resin linings of tin cans contain bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that has been linked to ailments ranging from...
Logan is 22 weeks—5 months old—today. I can’t even begin to describe how happy I am with how things are going. Going back to work has not been as awful as I had feared, and I’m thankful for a great job with an awesome boss. And our daycare—I know it’s only been 5 days, but I just really love them so far. It really is a testament to the old adage...
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Swagbucks, Anyone?
So, I’ve been doing this Swagbucks thing for about a month now and I love it! Have you heard of it? I found out about it through a cloth diaper forum that I belong to and after seeing all these people getting FREE Amazon giftcards, I decided to try it. Well, in the month that I’ve done it, I’ve earned enough Swagbucks to redeem $50 worth of Amazon giftcards AND a $10 Starbucks...
November 2011
16 posts
Logan now has a cold and cough and a fever. It is sooo pitiful and I feel so bad for her. It’s like she went to daycare and took each and every germ home and is now fighting them. Sigh. I knew she would catch something but I didn’t think she would catch everything. It’s tough seeing her sick.
Logan has a fever :( I noticed it when we got home yesterday and when I checked, it was 102.4!! Called the nurse, gave her Tylenol, and it went down a little. Woke up at 2am to nurse her and she was super hot. Took her temp and it’s 102.9!!! Oy. More Tylenol, put her in a short sleeve onesie, nursed until she literally can’t have any more milk. She feels a little cooler to the touch...
Day 2
So, I’m alive, and so is Logan. We survived my first day of work and her first full day at daycare! I missed her terribly, but I have to be honest—not having her with me at all times is so weird but also so liberating. Little things that I’ve taken for granted are now truly appreciated (e.g., getting in the car and tossing my purse in and just driving away, listening to loud...