Mixture

It's very strange to have a mixture of emotions as I have now. I'm feeling the loss of my dad, but at the same time, I still get joy out of my baby; it hasn't really tempered that. I don't feel that guilty admitting it, as I think my dad would have wanted me to savor this newborn-baby time with Henry. On that note, I'd like to lighten the mood around here with a list of products that have become even more useful than I expected:

  • My Brest Friend: first recommended to me by Jodi. This thing has saved my back, literally. Before buying it, I had upper back pain that eclipsed even my c-section incision pain.
  • Multi-purpose waterproof lap pads: another Jodi recommendation. These are excellent to put over the changing pad, and they're great for possible accidents while co-sleeping (which I hadn't wanted to do, but we're in survival mode, so oh well).
  • Hotslings. I heard they had them at Target, so I got one. Henry and I love it, so I got one more. We don't have an infant carrier (one of the ones with a handle that attaches onto a car seat), so when we've gone out with Henry, I've carried him in it. (Fun fact: my mom carried me in a sling too, especially on days I had to have shots at the doctor. She said I wouldn't let her put me down after I'd had a shot, so she'd have to carry me in a sling the rest of that day.)
  • Baby t-shirts (not onesies). The day after tomorrow, Henry will be three weeks old, and his umbilical cord stump STILL has not fallen off. I want to keep letting air get to it, so t-shirts that don't go all the way over his belly button have been indispensable.

I never really saw myself as one of those mothers who adheres to the following constellation: breastfeeding, co-sleeping, baby wearing, home birthing, home schooling, cloth diapering, anti-circumcision, anti-vaccination. But so far I'm almost halfway there. I'd like to do cloth diapering, but I haven't yet been able to find plastic outer pants in Henry's size. (For the record, I'm very PRO-vaccination, we did have H. circ'ed, and I wouldn't want to try a home birth myself.)

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Baby stuff

I carried both of my boys around in the snuggli. (I think that's how it was actually spelled.) I liked that better than the sling. That whole thing, though, was about having the baby close to you however worked for you. We did the frontal and then the back before it was over because our kids were so close together; I loved feeling them so close to me at the time. Then I went through a terrible period of feeling physically smothered, just like I didn't even want to be touched by anybody else because I couldn't extend it. Eek, I was so glad when that was over.

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