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Oct. 16th, 2003 07:39 am
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Original: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/10/16/93922/348

I realized I never updated after my last entry...
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Sep. 17th, 2003 12:20 pm
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Gotta love babies... I just wish I could get it a little more distinct :)

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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.

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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I posted a whole bunch of pictures to Leif's website today. I discovered that photoshop has an option to automatically generate photo albums. Neat. So it's now an actual website, and not just a list of pictures.

I went to the doctor today. I'm all healthy. My blood pressure is way down (100/60), and I'm a bit below my pre-pregnancy weight. Yay.

Talk about weight loss and female body parts... )

I almost forgot to mention... [livejournal.com profile] koyote and I got married on Friday. Then we went and saw American Wedding. We thought it would be appropriate. It was Leif's first movie, too. He nursed pretty much the whole time, so he was quiet.

Friday morning, we went to the courthouse to get a marriage license. On our way out, a woman came up to us and said (pointing to Leif), "Is that Elijah?" We said no, of course. She said that he looked just like her son Elijah - he had the same outfit (I think every kid born this summer has this particular outfit), and the same stork bite on his eye.

This kind of freaked me out. [livejournal.com profile] koyote thinks that she was probably on drugs, and CPS took the baby away. I don't doubt that he's right. Poor kid.

So I've now eloped. This amuses me. My cousin, the only other married person on that side of the family, also eloped (and didn't tell anyone for six months). Perhaps we're starting a trend! There's also a child out of wedlock trend going. I find this interesting. It feels to me like our family has always pretended to be perfect (intentionally or not), while really being pretty dysfunctional. Tom, would you agree with this?

Or perhaps that's just normal.

I've been pondering what I'd do if I suddenly became rich. Not hugely "never have to worry about money again" rich, but considerably richer than I am now (which wouldn't really take much - we have no debt now, but we don't have much saved up beyond that, either. We're working on it).

I think that growing up not-rich in Coronado (one of the richest parts of San Diego (or anywhere, for that matter)) left me with a real distaste for richness. My friends and I generally had to work for things we wanted beyond the necessities - I started a pet sitting business in 5th grade in order to save money for the 8th grade class trip to the east coast, and had jobs pretty much continually from that point on.

Anyways, I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, except that the idea of being rich bugs me. Or perhaps more to the point, the idea of giving Leif everything he wants bugs me. Not that I don't want him to be happy, but consumerism doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. Not that being rich means I have to give him everything he wants, but it takes away the convenient "We can't afford it" excuse.

(I'm being hypocritical here. The idea of being able to buy whatever I want doesn't bother me. I don't think I'm really all that much better at objectively assessing what is "worth it" just because I'm an adult, yet I want to make that decision for other people).

I should now do laundry and go to bed, as the boy will want me awake at some time in the morning before I really feel like being awake.

I have a hard time expressing myself. Most of what I've said in this entry isn't what I really meant to say. Oh well. I've always had this problem where my brain thinks faster than I can get the words out (verbal, typed, or written, it doesn't matter). I'll have all these wonderful thoughts in my head, and when I try to write them, it just doesn't work. I've sometimes thought that if I could have a thought recorder, I could very easily be a professional writer. Except that everyone else is probably the same way, so if thought recorders existed, the standards would go up.

Besides, the idea of thought recorders and the Bush administration is just frightening.

Ok, off to bed.
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Baby picture. I'll get more posted within a few days hopefully.
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Nesting is so much fun.

I decided this evening that I NEEDED a basket to put the bath stuff in. So we went out and looked for a basket, but it was already pretty late, so we didn't get one. This upset me terribly. Luckily, we had a basket lying around. It now has baby bath stuff in it.

Isn't that the stupidest thing you've ever heard? :)

Now I NEED all these boxes out of the bedroom, and to find the box(es) that has all my photos in it so that I can stick them in the photo box I got the other day. I've seen this box, I just don't know where it is.

I also need the laundry to finish drying so that I can go to sleep.

I washed all the 0-6 month clothing today (not that we have all that much of it, though we now have something to bring baby home from the hospital in besides onesies. Yay!), as well as all the bath stuff (to go in the basket), and a good portion of the receiving blankets. We got 90 million of them this weekend, as Ikea had them on sale for $0.95 for 2.

Now I just need a dresser to put them in. I may just end up using my dresser, which doesn't currently have anything in it, as everything except maternity clothing is still packed, but we want to get a somewhat lower dresser that will serve as a changing table, as well.

I had strange baby dreams last night. The skin of my abdomen was stretched so thin that I could clearly see baby's face through it, and when she kicked/punched, her arms and legs would extend way out. It was quite strange. I've had similar dreams before. Too much X-Files/Alien influence.

Baby shower pictures are posted at http://tasty.ucdavis.edu/~leng/gallery/lemurbaby. If you've never met us, it should be reasonably obvious which ones we are from context. I'm the one in the light pink shirt. Christof is wearing a greyish shirt. We're both blonde. Most of the pictures of us seem to be from pages 5-7, when we're opening presents.
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Baby update and ultrasound pictures posted on [livejournal.com profile] lemurbaby :)
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For those who don't read [livejournal.com profile] lemurbaby, ultrasound pictures are available at http://www.koyote.cx/lemurbaby/.

I'll give a more detailed report soon (hopefully tomorrow) when I don't have to be awake to catch a train in five hours.

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