Archive for December, 2007
it’s a christmas miracle
…even though it’s after Christmas and it sure didn’t start out that way.
I had a little melt down this morning when husband Scott informed me that he’d looked over the revised medical bills from the birth and after insurance we still owe $8,000+.
Yes, scary.
It is the weekend though, so if there is going to be […]
Posted by calm mama on Saturday, December 29th, 2007 at 6:28 pm in baby baby baby | 2 Comments »
i surrender
I surrender to spending whole days in bed with an infant attached to my boob while I circle the TV channel spectrum on my remote.
I surrender to reruns of TV shows I never wanted to watch in the first place.
I surrender my idea that I could be the mom that always responds immediately, knowingly, accurately […]
Posted by calm mama on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 at 2:39 pm in baby baby baby, just me | 4 Comments »
pediatrician appointment
Went to the pediatrician today for the 4-week appointment. Our boy is 8 pounds 3 oz. Go baby grow!
I brought with me our whole long list of concerns — Are we overfeeding him? Did his belly button heal okay? When should I pump breastmilk? How often should we be doing “tummy time”? What about that […]
Posted by calm mama on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 at 8:37 am in baby baby baby | 3 Comments »
to sleep, perchance to whine
Muddling through Christmas time with my Jewish family in town from So Cal and our little Christmas tree and the presents underneath and me with so little sleep and the weirdest naps are the ones when I fall so deep that I dream for a second.
The boy is sleeping now, in his big ole’ rainforest […]
Posted by calm mama on Monday, December 24th, 2007 at 10:37 pm in baby baby baby | 2 Comments »
guest blogger appreciation day
I just wanted to take today’s post to say thank you again to the wonderful bloggers who guested on this site!
I had no idea, on Saturday, November 24, when I sent out that email at around 6 a.m., to a few of my parent blogger colleagues asking for a little input to keep my site […]
Posted by calm mama on Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 at 1:10 pm in bloggy love, guest blogger | 1 Comment »
progress is being made
Wow, things really change fast. At least from my point of view, where every minute detail is so large as my whole day is filled with baby.
Yesterday morning, he actually sat in the vibrating seat and looked interested in the hanging bears (a slightly morbid image, the way these bears dangle off that bar by […]
Posted by calm mama on Friday, December 21st, 2007 at 11:24 am in baby baby baby | 4 Comments »
jonah’s day
Yesterday, I tried to keep a log of Jonah’s day, in case there was something to be gleaned from his patterns.
But asking a sleep deprived mom to keep track of anything is a dicey proposition. If only we had a secretary.
His day looked something like this; starting with the night before — and with activities […]
Posted by calm mama on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 at 2:08 pm in baby baby baby | 3 Comments »
the songs i sing
So far, Scott had been doing most of the calming duties. Hearing him sing folk songs full voice has been one of the highlights of these, a-hem, rather challenging first three weeks.
Last night at god-knows-what-o’clock a.m., it was my turn. “Sing to him!” Scott said, encouragingly.
It makes no sense — I have a freaking master’s […]
Posted by calm mama on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 at 12:52 pm in baby baby baby | 6 Comments »
i have to admit, it’s getting better
And I know at least one person (Scott) who will be surprised to hear me say that, since last night was our most colossal crying fit EVER, and for the first time since we brought him home, Jonah did not go to sleep at midnight but rather at 3 a.m. or so — in the […]
Posted by calm mama on Monday, December 17th, 2007 at 8:06 pm in baby baby baby | 9 Comments »
guest post: the calm before my stork
By Mayberry Mom
In the weeks before my first child was born I never once entertained the idea that I would have a cesarean section. Although my girl was large (nearly nine and a half pounds, as it turned out), she was not breech and therefore, in my mind, there was no reason why she couldn’t […]