Saturday, June 21st, 2008...8:49 am
Still waiting
E and I are still waiting to meet Rufus. Actually, we are not anxiously waiting or anything but we just feel more and more ready to meet this kid. Also, E has a tough time finding a comfortable sleeping position and the baby keeps moving further down on her bladder which makes sleeping through the night impossible. However, we do need at least another week so that Shannon and Sarah can visit and we can attend the party Anne is throwing for us!
We’re educating ourselves on this whole baby thing. We went to a breastfeeding class this past week where I got my instructions (in a pamphlet called “To the Father of the Breastfed Baby”) and E got hers (if it hurts, something is wrong, let the baby do the work, football holds, etc). Today we’re going to infant CPR class and then next week we have our Dog and Baby class. Of course, by now I have already forgotten about the breathing methods we learned in our childbirth class…so I don’t know how much information I am retaining from these classes but it does contribute to the overall sense of feeling prepared.
I think that E and I are both showing signs of “pregnancy amnesia” and generally lethargy related to weird sleeping habits, summer heat, and preoccupation with the arrival of this baby. This extends to keeping this blog updated, posting pictures, remembering birthdays (Happy Birthday Jeannette, Hedy, Danni, Isaac, Jonah, Chuck, Jennifer, and Andrew). I even mailed a father’s day card (on time) without a city, state, or zip!
If you don’t see activity here, check on Twitter (I am dnw), Flickr (link at right), or Facebook. E is addicted to word games on Facebook and is there quite often. In fact, yesterday she figured out that we went to school with Charla and Mirna from The Amazing Race…Mirna was in E’s French class!
Stay tuned…
1 Comment
June 21st, 2008 at 1:21 pm
i am also preoccupied with the arrival of rufus, my newest sweetie. i can’t wait to offer up advice on any and all subjects related to babies and dogs! but my goal is to wait until i’m asked for said advice, and not be all know-it-all about it (cause i don’t).
HOWEVER, i can’t help but respond to the myth propagated by breastfeeding professionals that “if it hurts, you’re doing it wrong.” i speak as a natural childbirth/co-sleeping/breastfeed til they’re 2 and 1/2 person when i say it DOES indeed hurt. yes, it does. i will fill ellen in on more intimate details of this, but suffice it to say that it hurts. it hurts less if you’re doing it right, and it only hurts for a while (a couple of weeks), and it’s totally worth getting through the hurty part. but when they say that, they lie.
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