Graphic designer Brandon Peat created a series of Star Wars alphabet prints in order to decorate his son Tycho’s nursery. The result is magnificent to say the least! The prints have been compiled into a book titled A is for Ackbar, which can be purchased by donating a minimum of $15 to Tycho’s college fund. And […]
Quit breastfeeding. Had to choose between quitting cold turkey and gradually quitting (by cutting out one pumping/nursing session every couple of days). Decided that engorgement pain is preferable to the razor-sharp pain from thrush I get every time my right breast is emptied. Smelled like cabbage soup as I stuffed my bra with cold cabbage leaves […]
A funny list of how a baby would be delivered in the corporate IT world — A Project Manager is a person who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in one month. A Developer is a person who thinks it will take four and a half months to deliver a baby. The Onsite Coordinator is one who […]
Reader Christine asked, i’m 4 weeks until my delivery and wanted to see what type of bottles you are using now. i have the medela bottles for feeding with orthodontic nipples, born free, and breastflow. can you review what bottles you tried and what you liked/disliked? i just received my target completion certificate and want […]
In my last post I asked if anyone could guess why my breastmilk has turned purple. Well, kalen, mlwindc, and LatteLove got it right: it is due to gentian violet, which I am using to treat our latest bout of thrush. While gentian violet is proven to be one of the most effective remedies against thrush, I […]
…or just some impeccable timing caught on camera. Still, it made me LOL this sleepy Saturday morning. Via haha.nu. You may also like: More Painful Than Stepping on LEGOs 13 Reasons Why Humans Are the Cutest Animals Website of the Day: Sad Animal Facts What Would Your Name Be If You Were Born Today?
Unfortunately, J and I have decided to postpone Breast Fest (that’s my name for my 24-hour, breast-only, no-bottles-allowed marathon) a week or two. We have always known that Claire has a “witching hour” — a period at night where a baby is extra fussy and cranky — but it has progressed to full-blown colic over […]
I am pretty sure that I do not need a lactation consultant. Claire has a perfectly good latch. I do not have any supply issues. I am comfortable in different breastfeeding positions. I have read La Leche League’s The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding front to back, and am always visiting breastfeeding support forums, so I am […]
Claire has had thrush on and off for about a month now, (I don’t know why doctors prescribe Nystatin when it only works in about 50% of thrush cases) and it looks like it’s spread to my boobs too. So now I am battling both thrush and mastitis. Perhaps I had thrush first which caused the […]
Yesterday I felt like crap. I was aching all over, I alternated between the chills and sweats, and I could barely walk in a straight line. (I had even failed to publish yesterday’s post on Jane Eyre. It was sitting there ready to go, and all I had to do was click on the “Published” […]
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