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Tuesday, 18 April 2006 |
I’ve only been doing the poll a week and I’m already slipping. I forgot to get the new one up at the start of the week. Better late than never! This week’s poll:
How long did you continue to make people wash their hands before holding your baby? And be honest!
Last week’s poll, covering the all-important poop topic, had people pretty cleanly divided (ha ha). Only one person confessed to being stingy with the wipes and using only 1 or 2 for cleaning up a poopy diaper. I say, God bless you for being frugal instead of fastidious.
The rest of us were evenly split between using 3 or 4 – staying clean but not going overboard – and using 5 or more. Seems there are a bunch of mommies willing to spend the pennies if keeps them away from the poop.
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Monday, 17 April 2006 |
The other night I was cooking in the kitchen while Maddie crawled happily around on the floor. My mom came in the front door and Madeleine’s ears perked up like a puppy’s at the sound of her Gamma’s voice. As Mom removed her coat and shoes outside of Maddie’s line of sight, my daughter began talking urgently to her and walking her way to the clear safety gate across the kitchen door. “Gamma! I’m here! I’m here! I’m here!” she seemed to chirp like a homing beacon, afraid Gamma wouldn’t find her. When Gamma came into view, Madeleine began prancing impatiently, arms stretched up, shrieking ecstatically when Mom picked her up.
My mom and Maddie are in the midst of a full-blown love affair and I couldn’t be happier. I’m well aware of how lucky I am to have family who is 1) so close by, and 2) so willing to help out. Madeleine’s over ten months old and we’ve never left her with a stranger; nor have we had to pay someone to watch her. And it’s largely thanks to my mom.
Believe me, I’m extraordinarily aware of how lucky we are.
 My mom’s over a couple times a week to play and hang out. She also helps with baby patrol on weekends while Brian and I get chores done and errands run. She’s another set of hands while dinner’s being cooked and served, another familiar face that knows how to read Maddie’s moods: she knows when Maddie’s ready to be put down for a nap and when she simply wants to cuddle, when she wants some space to crawl around and when she wants to be chased. I look at the three adults – me, Mom, and Brain - moving comfortably around the house together and think, “This is right.”
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Thursday, 13 April 2006 |
Easter weekend is coming up, and all across the country moms and dads are
busy buying items for Easter baskets. When I was growing up we had candy.
Period. End of sentence. These days it’s a mini-Christmas, with video
games and jewelry and books being bundled into baskets and surrounded by
plastic grass. And the chocolate! Some of the pre-bundled baskets I’ve
seen on sale are easily four feet high. There’s enough sugar in one of
those things to put an entire first-grade class into a sugar coma.
Now
I love chocolate as much as the next girl – I think that’s clear from my
blogs. And there are many things in life I look forward to sharing with
Madeleine; I love being there to see her joy at experiencing something
great for the very first time.
But we’re not doing a candy basket
for her this year. She’s ten months old! Setting aside that chocolate is
a high-allergen food the first year of life, we’re trying to avoid giving
her added sugar for her first couple years; no point in developing her
taste palate with the sugar level set at 90 instead of 10.
I
know, I’m a big talker and Paranoid New Mommy. Check in with me in 5
years as I feed my 8-month-old sugar smacks for breakfast to buy a little
peace.
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Wednesday, 12 April 2006 |
Since Maddie was four months old we’ve had the same bedtime routine for her. We’ve tried to establish a habit, a pattern that will instantly tell her it’s sleepy time. As we approached the time in her life we’d agreed to help her learn to self-comfort, we started casting about for a lovey, a comfort object she could attach to and turn to for comfort in the middle of the night.
Fortunately for us, she found her thumb at a pretty early age, transitioning to it from the pacifier right at three months. I say fortunately, because she can find her thumb in the middle of the night much more easily than a dropped pacifier. She still sucks her thumb when tired or sleeping, which is great because we never got her attached to a specific lovey.
Until now!
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Wednesday, 12 April 2006 |
Maddie’s ten months old now and has been crawling and cruising for almost two months.
And boy, am I tired.
We’ve been working on baby proofing the house for almost as long, but it’s a tedious process made even more time-consuming by my obsessive market research and maniacal need to know what Consumer Reports thinks about a product. By the way, register to be an online user with them; cheaper than the yearly magazine subscription and allows you to look up the best outlet plugs at 2 a.m. But I digress:
Over the past several weekends we’ve been working our way through the house, installing all the gear I ordered online to make the house a safer place for Supergirl. It’s by no means perfect yet; we still have the odd job to do here and there. But by and large, I can put baby girl down in any room of the house, at least long enough for me to get a glass of water, and she’s not in imminent danger.
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