“Everything is at a hazy distance. I know someone’s talking to me, but I can’t quite focus on the content of their word stream and I find my eyes glazing over while I dream of my bed.”
I used to feel like that the day after a after a night out while my still alcohol soaked [...]
Archive for the ‘baby stuff’ Category
Sleep deprivation and other stories
Posted in Health Visitor, baby stuff, breastfeeding, sling, vaccination on 17 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
Odds & sods
Posted in Health Visitor, baby stuff, breastfeeding, dummy, family, sling on 30 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
After the initial telephone call of doom on Friday afternoon, the visit went well and I actually really like my Health Visitor! She gave me some really useful breastfeeding tips and advice. Looks like I’ll be going along to her breastfeeding group across the road on Friday mornings. Turns out the Well Baby clinic is [...]
And she slings!
Posted in baby stuff, midwife, sling on 22 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh! The sling is operational!
I COOKED FOOD AND HE SLEPT THE WHOLE TIME!!
He slept for the longest period out of today AND yesterday; in fact, he’s still asleep now. Isaac loves the sling!
I’m so very relieved. I was beginning to think there was no hope, but all seems well with the womb etc so I’m [...]
Where to begin?
Posted in baby stuff, caesarean section, midwife on 20 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So here we are at the end of Isaac’s second week out of the womb and it still hasn’t really sunk in that I’m someone’s mother. Even typing it and reading it back sounds utterly ridiculous. I’m responsible for the well-being and development of a small person. Who let this happen?!
We’ve been out and about [...]
When is my baby actually due?
Posted in baby stuff, birth, midwife, pregnancy, ultrasound on 24 August 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been thinking about this whole EDD (expected delivery date) business. How the hell can you tell when a baby is going to be born? Quite simply, you can’t. You can use statistics gathered by people over the years to hazard a guess, but there really is no dead certain way of knowing when a [...]
Labour ward tour
Posted in baby stuff, hospital, labour on 16 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As the title suggests, we went on a tour of the labour ward.
Quite simply, it has confirmed with concrete certainty in my mind why I want to have the Wiggler at home. I understand that hospitals are a necessary evil, but childbirth is one of the most natural things in the world and, to me, [...]
Hat II
Posted in baby stuff, craftiness on 10 August 2009 | 1 Comment »
I made another hat!
I told you I’d have another crack at it!
I gave in & used a pattern from Debbie Stoller’s The Happy Hooker (the Seija Set, but without the blanket (obviously duh – got enough of those already – and not the stripy version because I only had this yarn). It went through [...]
Hat!
Posted in baby stuff, craftiness on 8 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I made a hat! It’s somewhat pixie-esque, but hey – the child’s got to know what kind of family it’s been born into!
Olivia gave me the yarn a few years ago & it’s been sitting in my yarn tub since then. It rather luckily matches a lot of the Bertie Bear stuff from Boots that [...]
All fixed…mostly
Posted in NCT, baby stuff, birth pool, craftiness, vaccination on 5 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Simon is officially master of the PTFE tape – I told him what Dad said about having put it on the wrong way round a few times & he did it first time Then…we got in! Both of us at the same time. It was a bit full LOL, but that can be [...]
Pool arrived!
Posted in baby stuff, birth pool on 3 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Holy cow – it’s here. It’s still in boxes, but it’s here. Need to buy plastic stuff to put it on now & get a duvet down from the loft for padding inside.
