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[ocelot]

Leif went in for an EEG today, which was an experience. He had some weird twitchy possibly seizure-like activity when he was a few days old, so they went and scheduled an EEG for two months down the line. Makes a ton of sense, huh?

The nurse attached about 30 electrode thingies to his head (thankfully, they don't have to shave the head anymore), and then wrapped his head in a bandage to keep them from coming off. Then I nursed him during the half hour test so that he'd stay quiet and go to sleep. He looked like a little war victim.

We find out the results in a week. I doubt they'll find anything. It was probably just a newborn thing, or a side effect of being slightly premature.

Before the test, the nurse said we could feed him a bottle to get him sleepy, and added as an afterthought that I could nurse him if we were breastfeeding. Is breastfeeding really rare enough around here that bottlefeeding is the default?

The National Day to Empower Teen Parents is Oct. 11. They're also having an ongoing zine/poster distribution campaign. If any of you would be willing to help out (especially those of you who are in regular contact with teens or young parents or go places a young mom might frequent), further information is at http://www.girlmom.com/archives/001165.html. Passing out fliers shouldn't take much effort, and this is something I feel is pretty important.

For those who haven't already heard, Christof and I got married on August 8th. We will have a celebration at some point in the future, once things are a little less hectic :)

I finally got my cell phone email working. This means I can take zillions of pictures of Leif and easily spam people with them. Yay! Speaking of which, more pictures are posted at http://www.ansible.org/~jess/leif/.

I'm working on modifying some of Leif's onesies into t-shirts. He has so many of them and only a handful of t-shirts (which are much easier to deal with when doing cloth diapers), and he'll soon be outgrowing the 0-3 month size, so I figured a few of the boring white ones could be sacrificed. Since the sewing machine is still buried somewhere, I'm not actually cutting anything, just sewing up the flaps. We'll see how it works.

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[silkensteel.livejournal.com]

If they'd found anything immediately abnormal, they would have (or should have) jumped on it. That delay is pretty typical for children that are otherwise healthy.

The sewing machine? The back room closet, floor, right side was the last place I saw it.

[lemurbaby.livejournal.com]

I know, I'm just too lazy to drag it out (the room has gotten worse since you last saw it!)

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

I'm working on modifying some of Leif's onesies into t-shirts.

If his torso is short enough just snap the onsie over his shoulder til you can find the time/energy to cut and hem it.

[lemurbaby.livejournal.com]

Over the shoulder didn't work (I may not have been doing it right, since I can't even picture how that would work, but I think he's just too long since he's already starting to grow out of 0-3 month clothing lengthwise) but snapping it on the side worked well enough. Thanks :)

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

*nod* Wen's got the same problem of long torso. But because she's generally got a heat rash I just let her run around in a diaper. The way I did the snap over the shoulder was to pull the tail of the onesie over the shoulder and snap one of the snaps. Cross the chest so it stays in place. It's rather toga like. Alaric calls it silly looking. But it gets more wear out of the onesie, keeps it out of diaper changing mess, and isn't permanent.