1. Today is the very first Mother's Day ever where I didn't have to solicit one of those little gifts the young men/women give out at church at the end of sacrament meeting. It's a good thing, too, because I'd spent most of the meeting wrestling the child that blessed me with motherhood, and I was sweaty and irritable. C'mon, Mormons! Turn on the bloody AC!
2. Carolyn has developed this grody looking rash all over her body. It doesn't seem to bother her, but it looks horrible. We've already ruled out food allergies and are now trying to think of what else it could be.
3. Carolyn has started gnawing on the side of her crib. Like a beaver. There are tooth marks all along the edges.
4. Our awesome neighbor has started throwing his cigarette butts onto our patio. Naturally, what's the first thing Carolyn goes for when she goes outside? That's right, yesterday I found her with one hanging out of her mouth a la Humphry Bogart. Had I not been so utterly grossed out, I would have run inside to get my camera. Because you know who else used to pick up cigarette butts and pretend to smoke them? That would be Grandma The Judy.
5. After the doctor's visit last week, I felt horrible about how we were feeding Carolyn. We'd gotten to the point where we felt like we'd kind of figured out how, when, and where to feed her. After nine months, her spitting up had very nearly stopped. We were hallelujahing up and down the house and were getting ready to put away at least half of our 350 burp rags for good. The doctor, however, was not pleased with me. She said we should be feeing her this much and no less. So, we upped her food intake to that recommended by the doctor and guess what?! Puke all over. Again. Back to going through three outfits and three bibs a day, finding vomit all over the house, even throw up coming out of Carolyn's nose. Ugh.
6. After a very sweaty day yesterday and an equally sweaty one today, I'm going to have to say that I'm exceptionally pleased with my new Old Spice deodorant. Not that it makes me not sweat my any stretch of the imagination - I still have the pit stains - but at least I don't smell.
7. I wonder how much a laundry service would cost. I'm so sick of washing sheets from work that any price would almost be worth it to me at this point.
8. Carolyn took two steps yesterday. I think it was probably an accident, but naturally, I freaked out and started screeching about what a smart baby she is.
9. Friday night for Girl's Night we went to see Something Borrowed. It helped to further solidify my girl crush on Ginnifer Goodwin because really, could she be more cute?? The movie is highly predictable, girly, and morally questionable, but still cute. Steve Howey and John Krasinski are the real stars of the show.
10. I can't believe it's May. How can life be passing me by like this? By this time of year, I had planned on already having been to the beach 4-5 times. As it stands we haven't been once. We haven't even thought about going once. I guess that's a good thing because I still haven't been down to buy my beach awning at the sporting goods store.
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I love Ginnifer Goodwin! Is it bad that I first discovered her back when I used to watch "Big Love"? I know, I know, I'm going to hell for that. But she is awesome. Did you ever read "The Help"? I always thought she should play Hilly Holbrook when they made that into a movie. But they got someone else. I probably thought of her because of her role in "Walk the Line". Anyway, happy first mother's day!
Sometimes, doctors don't know as much as moms. Who else is more of an expert on Carolyn than you?
Doctors guess, just like the rest of us. The only difference is, they spend WAY less time with your kid than you do.
I say if she's gaining weight, don't even pay any mind to what the doctor says. They don't know your kid. They don't see how much she spews on their feeding schedule. Maybe Carolyn has a heat rash? I don't really have any idea.
I'm with everyone else. Since having Cora, I have concluded that doctors don't really always know what they are talking about. They don't know if when she eats half of it gets smeared across her face and the chair or how fast her metabolism is or any other number of factors. I have decided that I do what feels right for me and Cora and go to the doctor simply to get her vaccinations and make sure there aren't any other major issues that I can't find, not to get parenting advice about how much to feed or let Cora sleep. Cora eats as much as she wants, no more and no less, and no pediatrician is going to tell me to do different. Well, they might tell me but I wont listen 8)... me and Cora are up for being yalls beach buddies if you want by the way! We love the beach! Be glad you haven't gone in the past couple of weeks though because we have and it has been solid seaweed.
Who the heck cares how much she eats if she's healthy and gaining weight? It's better if she's eating less and keeping it down than eating more and throwing half of it up. She's probably getting the same amount of calories either way.
If I gave Josh the amount of liquid they say he's supposed to have in a day, he'd probably explode.
I agree with the other comments on the feeding schedule. Feed her so she's not hungry. If she is happy and gaining weight and eating healthy foods, then to heck with the doctor's recommendations. My doctor told me that I should nurse no more than 20 minutes on each side. Period. What my doctor didn't know, and I learned the hard way, was my son was not nursing the entire 20 minutes because he is lazy when he eats and I was switching him to the other side- causing a foremilk/hindmilk imbalance that sent him into a serious 48 hour crying fit because his gas was so bad. And then another 24 hours of constipation after that.
You know your baby, and have common sense. You will be fine to take the doc's recs with a grain of salt.
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