Faustina slept for six hours straight last night.
I woke up this morning and it was strangely not dark - something I’m no longer used to when first waking up after I put my weary head to the pillow at night.
We’re learning that the main thing with Faustina is that we need to relax around her. So maybe she’s fussy. Then we just have to play with her, whether we’re over at a friend’s house, at home, or at the movies.
She loves when we dance around to music with her. She gave her father a [...]
She dislikes pacifiers. And slings. And being swaddled. Unlike - it seems - everyone else’s baby.
Or so I thought.
And then it turned out I was using the sling wrong: I kept putting her in sideways (lying with her head to one side and bottom to the other) and she prefers to be symmetrical, upright with [...]
She is still my little beauty.
Despite a heat rash (passed in a day), newborn acne (beginning to clear up), and the loudest farts I’ve heard in my life. I even think there’s beauty in the way she cries.
It still feels strange to talk to her: it’s like talking to a doll. But I’ve begun to [...]
She was born on Sunday, May 25.
I went into labor on my due date and, a scant 36 hours later, I had my baby. I only got the epidural 22 hours in - and I have to confess I felt prouder of myself for getting one than for getting through all those hours of relentless, [...]
I woke up this morning and the baby was so low that I suddenly have a waist again. (Hello ribs: nice to see you again - it’s been a few months!) From behind, I look completely normal. From other sides: I look like I’d strapped a big ball to my belly.
Today is my due date.
I got my economic stimulus check, which was - naturally - for an amount far less than the so-called $600 minimum. Because, you know, I was adjuncting and finishing my Ph.D. and so my income in 2007 was less than the amount they figured as the baseline for the stimulus. Because if you make less [...]
I am further dilated: steady progress of a centimeter a week for the past couple of weeks. That puts me at almost 3 cm - said my doctor at this afternoon’s visit. She says there’s a good chance it’s soon now, maybe even within a week.
I feel like it’s soon now but I can’t [...]
On Saturday afternoon my belly moved lower. Saturday morning it was still way up then around 2pm it was not. The first thing I felt was that a particular movement Faustina often makes was suddenly occurring an inch below where I was used to it occurring. Then this morning I noticed something else: I can [...]
We had a party this weekend, the first big one at the house we are renting, it was supposed to be a garden party but the weather did not cooperate. It was wonderful to see so many of our friends, even while I had a few wistful moments wishing for people who live in Hungary [...]
