Category: baby baby baby

the funny thing about hospital bills

About a week after the birth, we received three separate bills from the hospital. Two were for around $5,000 each, and one for over $32,000. They weren’t itemized but rather mentioned a few of the services rendered by title. For…

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…

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…

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?…

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…

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…

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…

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…