May 2012
3 posts
Life is good: just yesterday →
o-baby:
you were two little lines of confirmation butterfly flutters and then teeny tiny kicks a closet of clothes washed and waiting a silent nursery.
just yesterday you were placed on my chest wrapped in a swaddle sleeping in my arms joining our family starting to gurgle, learning to…
April 2012
10 posts
A Daddy First
Having lived in our new neighborhood about 7 months now, Joe and I are dying to connect with our neighbors. It’s a wonderful neighborhood—almost everyone has small children, they do potlucks, neighborhood yard sales, Fourth of July and Memorial Day block bbqs, and the women play Bunco once a month. I’ve been invited a couple of times to Bunco, but last night was the first time I...
nineyearsandcounting replied to your post: See Kai Run Half Off
I held myself back at 1 pair. What size did you get?
Sorry I just saw this!
I got 2 pairs and received them in the mail yesterday. I got one that was 6-9mos (sz 3, I think) and another that was 9-12mos. Logan definitely fits the 6-9mos better, with a little room to grow. I’m disappointed because the other pair that are too big...
See Kai Run Half Off
I got Logan a couple of pairs she can wear this spring and summer! See Kai Run is half off on Amazon’s Myhabit website :) There are still a bunch left!
Our new bedtime routine...
1) bath (tub or sponge, depending on the day)
2) tickles and pajamas
3) nursing (while Logan pokes my face, tries to get her fingers in my mouth, wiggle in my arms, play with my hair)
4) done nursing, still wide awake
5) Logan goes to her crib so she can fall asleep on her own
6) not 10 seconds later, she rolls onto her tummy
7) she crawls to one end of the crib
8) she pulls herself up and...
Baby Must Haves
amiracle4us:
To those new or seasoned mama’s….what are your ultimate ‘must haves’? We are finishing our registery this weekend and Ireallydon’t want a house full of things not needed, that won’t be used, and taking up space we don’t have. So list away please!!!
Hi M!
Ok, I’ll list what we really used for the first 3 months, and then also things that I registered for that have ended up...
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It was just like one of our ordinary weeknights, we had a snack when we got home, changed her diaper, nursed a little, and then we were playing on the floor. Sometimes this lasts for a while, sometimes my little girl wants nothing to do with the floor and would rather play on my lap. Either way, we stay on our blanket on the floor and play. But last night. Well, last night my little girl crawled....
March 2012
17 posts
By the way ladies, thank you for all the info on IVF and offering help! I’ll talk to her Monday and pass the suggestions along :) Have a great weekend!
IVF Info?
Hi Ladies!
I was wondering if you could recommend some websites/blog to get IVF info. One of my girlfriends is starting her first cycle and wants/needs more info and more/better explanations and maybe even personal accounts from women who now are pregnant/have babies from IVF. I also get the feeling she doesn’t like her case manager and I’ve told her she needs to ask for a new one so...
Me Day
I have tomorrow off and had originally planned on just hanging out at home with Logan. But after speaking to one of my best girlfriends over the phone last week, she suggested that I drop Logan off at daycare and do whatever I please. And, to seal the deal, she said it would be “decadent”. And you better believe I was sold.
I’ve been hoarding coupons from Livingsocial and...
Question for breast feeding Mumblrs
lovefromcentralparkave:
I am clueless on breast feeding storage. I know I am going to be visiting with a lactation consult but anyone have an tips, tricks or products they would like to share?
Baggies or milk trays?
And do you just let it thaw?
(Again, not sounding naive just really wondering what works for y’all in your every day life.)
Also huge thanks to my one of my oldest and dearest...
Kindle
The past week has found me spending lots of time in Logan’s room before my bedtime (which is the first time she wakes up after she goes to bed around 7pm). I’ve spent many minutes, sometimes hours, in there nursing her, making sure she is nice and full before putting her down in her crib again. Just the other night it took me 2 hours before she would finally drift off to sleep again!...
A Miracle 4 Us: Last Day! →
amiracle4us:
Hey ladies (and gents),
Today is the LAST day to vote for C and I. If you have already jumped on FB and clicked ‘LIKE’ THANK YOU!!! The last time I posted this we jumped by about 50+ so thank you thank you! Since that time we have jumped more and I know some of you messenged me stating you…
Ladies, if you haven’t yet, please vote! They are so deserving :)
Ex Utero
Dear Logan,
You are a little over 36 weeks old, and I’m really paying attention now, because in just a couple of weeks, you will have lived outside of me longer than you did inside. I’m sure most mothers think about this little milestone (or is it just me?). It’s not one of those stats that I will name to the whoever asks, like how you have 2 teeth, or how you love to babble...
Flashback Friday
This photo was taken a year ago (3/2/2011).
I loved being pregnant. Well, except the nausea the whole first trimester. That I could’ve lived without. But I don’t know, I just really embraced the whole thing. If you were following me at the time you would’ve noticed that my posts were sickeningly sunshine and rainbows—I loved it that much. But make no mistake...
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Baby Stuff We Love, the 8th Month Edition
(in no particular order):
1) Babyganics Bye Bye Dry Lotion
Logan has had a bout of eczema since the summer and after using other lotions and creams, this is the only thing that’s cleared it up. I love it! Babies R Us carries it and I got a couple over Christmas when they were having a BOGO sale on all Babyganics products. I’m now kicking myself for not buying more as we’ve...
Thoughts on a Thursday:
I”m having my first triple espresso drink since before I got pregnant
why? oh, because Logan woke up at 4:30am and nursed for about a whole hour and then decided she wasn’t going to fall back asleep
she also nursed for a full hour before she fell asleep last night
i’m pointing this out because my little girl, since being born, at the longest has nursed...
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
