Man, this was written ages ago, but since I seem to have gotten so far, I might as well leave it...
Storm--swimming sounds wonderful! I so want to take J as I love, love, love swimming. I was willing to brave being seen in a bathing suit, but I hate shaving, so that stands in the way. And this is not even about shaving my lady bits, which I don't even try as the shaven skin gets infected
every time. Because of my PCOS, I have legs hairier than any man's and it takes min. one hour and min. two fresh razors to do it if I haven't shaved in a while. And I haven't shaved in years.
And before someone suggests that I get both areas waxed, waxing causes more infection on my hoo-ha and shaving and waxing or hair remover causes all cause a rash and then ingrown hairs on my legs. PCOS rocks.
Pity me now, please.
Oh, and
Storm, I know this is from AGES ago, but I've called my husband an @sshole. Between me and him, that's tantamount to saying "I hate you." Actually, it's worse.
Borboleta--you put a blanket over T's face?! How could this possibly be safe, you negligent mother!
Blanket(s) --It's a yellow blanket which is synthetic but small, warm and light. And, it used to be my baby blanket! It seems like it's working--at first, when I went in to get J up, he'd be uncovered, but when OH went in to get him just now, he was still under it! Where can I get a baby duvet, though?
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Okay, after asking OH again about J being under the blanket, he says that he said no such thing, and am I perhaps seeing someone else on the side, causing such mis-information? @sshole!
Other questions I remember:
Meds--in order to get pregnant, I took Clomid twice (fail--my follies ended up HUGE), then Gonal-F, then Menopur twice. The second time worked. I only ever produced one follie, but my E2 was through the roof every time so I was always triggering early. J wasn't even supposed to work because his follie was only 14mm (very, very small for injectables). BUT, my lining was 11 mm (cm?), which was the result of upping the Menopur, and maybe going on estrogen suppositories for the first time before O. Then I went on progesterone suppositories for the first time after O. A few triggers for O were Ovidril, and then pure HCG.
I am SO able to do the TTC talk. It's all I thought about for years. Sad, I know, but if I hadn't been so proactive and knew what everything, including the numbers, meant, I wouldn't have J.
Education--no private schools for us, because there are only two in Edmonton. One pushes kids like crazy, and the other is run by Scientologists! And, we can't afford it. But having both substitute taught and actually taught in the Alberta school system, I am incredibly dismayed. As you can imagine, education is incredibly important to me and my husband (we don't want to force the kid, we just want him to have good opportunities...), and this is a bad, bad school curriculum. I have also taught International Baccalaureate, which could be an alternative, but I have also watched the kids have nervous breakdowns over the amount of work they have to do, and how hard the work is, so that's out. So I think Advanced Placement, the American program, is what we'll do. That's for high school. For pre-school, primary and junior, I think we'll send J to German school. Hopefully the student to teacher ratio is better and he'll at least learn a business language.
As you can tell, I have thought long and hard about this, but mainly because I taught in the system and know how horrible it is. In my home province, Ontario, I would have no problem sending him to a "regular" program. At least they teach history there.
Angel--Your poor friend! I can't believe they punctured a lung! I can see what you mean about things turning our the worst for her each time! I hope you can either talk to her again and see her soon. And
for Dom crawling! Is Seb now more interested in it, after watching Dom?
Borboleta--first suffocating T with a blanket over his head and then nearly smashing it in while scootering? I just don't know what to say, other than I want a scooter now. J would love it!
Charlie--I don't remember if I've said this before, but oh is S ever beautiful!!!
AFM--We had two good mornings in a row here, and I hope it's a pattern that will last! (<---hahahahaha!) First night--7 pm to 6:45 am
, and last night, 7 pm to 6:15 am! MUCH better than 5 am! (Our problem is never when he goes to sleep, or if he sleeps through, it's when he wakes up...)
ETA: Oh my gosh! J slept until...7:45 this morning!!! There is absolutely no way he will keep this up. I think he's going through some sort of developmental stage. He's coming up with one or two new words a day. Who would have thunk it, but it turns out, a lot of it is because of all the reading my husband has been doing to him in the mornings--J brings him books. And then he's imitating my "sounds." I guess I have a lot of non-verbal expressions, and he copies me, marching around the house doing perfect imitations of my "hoooo-aaaah" and "ach ja..." I don't even know why I say the first one, and okay, the second one is verbal, just German...
J is "napping" right now--he's sitting in his crib squeaking and "talking" and throwing in a really good cry every so often. A new word is "go!" as in, "go!" downstairs. "Go!" outside. "Go!" upstairs. (He points after "go!." Then he whines because we go to none of these places.)
Okay, now that this post is three days old, I shall continue to read the new stuff posted...
kosh--the "popper" I'm talking about is a Fisher Price "popcorn popper," though it looks nothing like a popcorn popper. It does make a very loud popping sound when you push it, though. Luckily, J has tired of it. I love buying toys second hand. 5 bucks for a toy he uses for a day or two--hard to feel guilty about that... And who knows, maybe he'll like it again. But it's the 'tar (guitar, which is really a ukelele we got him for his birthday) which he loves the most and he walks around everyday strumming it and "singing."
Borboleta--I cannot
believe that little T's birthday is so close. Soon it'll be the twins... But we still have beautiful Sophia, so we'll have to live vicariously through Charlie and her.
Oh, and what are these crib tents? J hasn't tried climbing out of his crib yet, but I think it's just because he hasn't though of it yet.
Re: smelling poop? Do you find that you're the only one who can smell it? I can smell it immediately. Eric, never in a million years. But who cares if he can smell it--he still has to change him. Mommy Contract!
Re: constipation. Have you tried diluted apple juice? I gave J some in his sippy cup the other day when he was all "bunged up" and he went within the hour.
Claire--we probably won't do anything for V-day. We never have before, except for our first year together. Oh my! I just looked at the date, and it's tomorrow!
Oh Rowan--it sounds awful what you're going through. Do you still have the colostomy bag? Like Borboleta said, I am also so glad you're not having a vaginal birth. It seem to me like there was no chance M2 would haven't caused a problem during his birth. Though it would have been a great "guilt card" to play for his entire life. "Remember when you almost killed me? Yes? Good. Now change my colostomy bag, please."
Angel--STTN is obviously a blessing and a curse for you. I hope they continue to STTN (!) and you will become so familiar with it that you'll drop off right away, and stay sleeping.
ETA: I just realized that your post is from 2 days ago! I am so behind!!! But on we go!
Storm--how on earth are you a bad mother because L
might have woken up and then didn't even cry? But in some ways I understand. I've been going through an "I'm a horrible mother" stage these days as well, and I'm driving OH up the wall.
Claire--what is the issue with L and the MMR (you probably said, but I don't remember). By the way, J was fine after it--gave him a bit of Tylenol when we got home and he was off and running immediately. And yaaay for gaining that weight back! You must feel relieved.
The only one in this family who has had trouble with the shots was me! After the rubella shot, I developed pain that very much mimicked rheumatoid arthritis and I freaked, freaked, freaked out! This was around three weeks after the shot so I didn't make the connection (why would I?). Went to the GP and everything, but he told me what was going on. I was one of those rare cases where I developed this symptom, and it always hits weeks after the shot is administered.
Okay, posting this right now. I'm not even finished reading the thread, but this is getting ridiculous. Thank you all for your patience.
!! 
. Let's all pray that these will keep up
! But today he finally did so fingers crossed tonight he will 
. 
. Love him to pieces 
!
which he loved.
