oh lord, here comes the marathon post. i just can't help myself, i have to catch up w/ ya'll
. i know i missed some of you too....
rhi, SO glad to read about the chiro helping your latch with lorelia!!!
about the bottle and YAY too....i sympathize about your feelings, i know i would feel the same. when do you go back to work?
ivymae, how do i get the mdc mobile site? i'm the least saavy smartphone user ever, and i've only been checking mdc every few days b/c i just can't seem to find time to sit down w/ the computer. but if i could check mdc mobile, i'd be oh-so-annoyingly present here again, heh.
5 love languages, cool concepts, and totally useful.
dena, ew, sorry you have sickies at your house, is feeling better? so sorry you had to go to the dr
. was your LO dehydrated badly?
jsh, wow, great to hear things are better, and yay for block feeding! i'm still doing it, and it seems so simple. i just have to be consistent about pulling charlie off anytime he hesitates or sounds like he might have swallowed air or wants to burp. since i'm not switching breasts, if i leave him be, sometimes he just eats and eats w/out a break, and he's more likely to spit-up that way.
along those lines, i was at a LLL meeting today, and asked if there's any reason i should not block feed. the leader said, nope, unless i mind being lopsided. i thought to myself, nah, haven't noticed that. of course sense then i'm noticing it! i'm going to have to ask my husband to help me evaluate tomorrow - shouldn't be hard, asking him to stare at my chest several times through the day
anne, i definitely had the night sweats a couple of times a week for the first few weeks after charlie was born.
justamama, sorry the hand stuff is dragging on. i know the recovery period won't be easy, so i hope surgery comes at the best possible time.
re ppd.
cecelia'smama,
sme, charlie is really good about being layed down too, and i have felt guilty about it....some... i had planned to wear him every second! but i feel that the LARGE balance of time he is in contact with one of us, and as he gets older i can translate this into more time. i feel lucky to have a baby that seems to have some self-soothing already.
GORGEOUS PICS!!! - your toddler is the cutest little elf-boy! those are treasures...
meh, can you ask your roommate to keep her from staring at you guys at least? so weird!
pepper, LOL about the mardi gras beads! totally hilarious. um, and total clone!
dipes: totally agree about not changing a wet diaper on a sleeping baby. charlie has had a couple of very short episodes of rash, but they were both in a week and i think may have been related to my diet, or maybe a missed nighttime poo change.
dhinderliter, i also don't like to wake my husband to help at night (during the week - weekends are fare game). he will insist before bed he wants me to, but i only do if i'm desperate, which has only happened a couple of times. when he's been up at night w/ us on a work day, he's so tired the next day, it really impacts his work.
WHAT IS NAK??????
baby book - mine is one of my treasures, i just need to get going on charlie's before i get discouraged that i've waited too long, heh.
jenfl, yayayayayayay! i hope the adjustment period is short and you see BIG improvements soon!
afm, things are going really well. charlie ate 3 hrs apart last night twice! for someone who is fine on 5 hrs of sleep, i feel great. i napped today too though. we are walking a lot, loving the ergo more than the moby right now. i still think the grip water is helping. i give it to him late afternoon/early evening before evening fussies, and again at bedtime or early morning. he's a little behind physically for a 6 week old i think, but just starting to push back and want to keep his head up. hates tummy time though, but likes modified tummy time on my chest. smiling at least twice a day, and starting to coo more.
my bladder seems to be the only thing not back to normal. i just peed and it went.... backwards! so odd! only when my bladder is really full, but still, weird!
what am i doing up? must go to bed and stop tempting the anger of the sleeping gods
thanks 
