Jan05 Babylicious Babes - May part 2 - Page 27

[Human_Being]

<-----------------------So Jesse and Karen were done up, too? He, he.

I finally figured out how that got there, dirty deeds done cheap, $2.50 fund raiser for mothering web site....some tricky little 3 ophi I do suspect! Or was it the poopooguru?!

Originally Posted by tigerpurring

Somebody suggested super-mucous poo could indicate an allergy, especially milk. That's what I've read, too, but doctor insists food allergies at this age don't exist. (And Lauren is an imaginary baby?)

hmm, uh, what a dumb doc. Some where I read a quote to the effect of infant feeding is an area of medicine where it's still ok-or at least common- to practice in the 2000's with information from the 1950's. As stated later, of course infants have allergies. And dairy does take 10-14 days to clear from your milk, so if you haven't gone that long wiht out milk, give it a try and see what Carmen does.

Andy comm'on
DUCK BILLED PLATYPUS!!! Thats hillarious!
Homemade costumes and and Brownies?
....are you going for some kind of mom award?
On ideas- check out the folkmanis puppets, I have a feeling they have one. I just was looking at their puppets caus ethere was a co op in swaps.

I see Karen, Paq, and Annie are swaping. I just am trying out my first swap so I can satisfy my desire for new things with our spending money!!! Its win win- you get fun mail, but you don't have to spend $ on diapers to do it :LOL !

Oh, annie the grad pics are so cute! Preschool graduations are funny, but I like honoring them wiht rites of passage, and there are so few in our culture that I think its kinda cool to have them honored in front of a big group with speial clothes for finishing something, and recognizing that they are moving on up!!!

And so cool on Will and food, NIcole.

Lisa- BABY BLING I have a friend that brings me bad things- postpartum she said she briefly thought she should bring me miso soup and then her good senses took over so she brought me chocolate, lots of it, instead. A few weeks later she came back and brought lunch with enough for left overs and a beer for each of us and mopped my floors! So she's the one who just gave loaned me her excersaucer- we already have her fishy seat. Thing is, Iris tried the exersaucer at her house and loved it so we brought it home. : I was gonna be a toy snob, really I was....no plastic, all wood waldorfy things, but my lil girlfriend Iris here gets gleeful in the excersaucer, what can I say? it goes in the category of bad things my friend brings me...chocolate, beer and now I have a name for it- baby bling. She just found out she's pregnant today!!! (The sperm DID not get stuck in Ohio this time...!) She's due around Iris's first birthday.

jessi, I haven't been able to read your birth story yet. Part avoidance cause I know it will spark my feelings that I am not sure I can deal with, part inspiration like I should write mine before I read yours so I do it in my own voice..Lately i am really mad at the doc that did my c-section, and feel sad for my poor cut-upon uterus. I saw my free massage giving ayurvedic used to be a midwife wise woman friend and her chiropraticing pelvic balancing husband today. One, we asked em to be god parents and they said yes- woo-hoo! And it was soooo great to get body work done. They made me feel better about the scary uterus- reassured me that it will heal up just fine and the body wants to be restored to health. But. Hmm. This is all just a pandoras box. I gotta shut up now, and just write a birth story, and do what Az suggests - see my dang therapist to sort through the weird feeling I have lingering from my birth experince. When we had lunch Jess I felt bad we ended up telling my birth story, cause as it fell out of our mouths I realized it was just a bunch of unprocessed stuff still. At 3 months i am just able to deal a bit, I guess, and I guess it was nice to be able to talk to someone outside of my birth community about it cause around here, I can talk to real life friends about my birth, but they were either my midwfe or I was theirs so it gets weird. Anyway, I am getting inspired by you to write mine. Three months is just enough time to shake off the immdediate post traumatic stressy stuff from a hard birth I guess. Maybe thats why you were up to write it....

I better go to sleep and get out of this weird chair or I'll undo all good done by my massage today.

Heidi

[3_opihi]

Oh those folkmanis puppets are nice. I did one of the coops for them, and got the boys like 10 puppets for 50 bucks. Usually thats how much one costs, so its an amazing deal. And they play with them all the time.

It wasn't me Heidi! Why does everybody think its me?

[Malama]

well i thought it was you cuz of the poi reference. maybe andy? shre's been to hawaii.... come clean mama!

[Bunches]

Insomniac here! I wanted to say hello and to let you know I'll be lurking over the next 48 hours - back to work. I hate leaving him!! I really do!

[sweetpeasmom]

Annie- omg he's so cute! I can't believe they have a ceremony for little ones like that.

Heidi- sorry you are feeling that way about your birth. Think seeing a therapist is a good idea. I know talking w/mine about my birth experience helped tremendously. if I never did it then those feelings would still be all bottled up and who knows how i'd be feeling like now..

Andy- a platypus costume :LOL loved to see pics of that when you are done.

Nicole- thats a lot for just one surgery, glad you don't have to pay all of it.
We got Megan's first bill in a while back and the total was only $377,000 for the first 7 weeks :LOL yeah I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but they said all we owed them was $78,000 :LOL :LOL yeah okay

Hmm never knew little black anys could hurt you? I'm sitting her and I felt an awful pinch at my toe and like owie. Then a few secs later again owie I look down and there's this tiny little black ant. He was friggin biting me : it hurt, so I squashed him. I never knew those type of ant bite.

[LEAW]

Heidi, ooh yah Lauren was SO overwhelmed in the 'saucer, she kept grabbing at everything but didn't want to let go of what she was hanging on to.

Laura, you need a title.. how hysterical would it be, "SweetPeasMom - killer of ants"

So who is doing it?

UGH I'm tired. 9-11 to get to sleep, nurse at 12, 3, 5:30, 8. *yawn*
Today we are taking my grandmother to lunch. I told her I was going to take her somewhere she has never been before, and since her lunch repetoire is Olive Garden, the Italian mafia place, the pizza place, and a few chains, it shouldn't be hard to find something new to try.

Lisa

[sweetpeasmom]

Jessi- finally got a moment to read your birth story. that was amazing. I admit i had to laugh at the wonderful doings of the things hospitals do.

I think i'll write up mine, i've only done a short version of mine. Its probably easier now for me to handle.

Lisa so does you grandmother like Italian or what? lol

[LEAW]

Laura, yah, she's this 85 yr old Italian Nonnie, and it's hard to get her out of her pattern. She does like DonPablo's too, but with all the cheese, I can't eat there.

I really want to go to this world cusine place down in the "ghetto" (the part of the ghetto that is now a trendy place to build and live).. but they serve lots of shrimp and tofu and guacamole, and she's not going to even put that near her lips! Guess I should think a little more mainstream, but my personal goal is something nonsmoking, not $$$, and not a chain.

[Azreial]

Laura I've been bit by them too and they do hurt, not like fire ants, but still

Ann it looks like Violet was tryingto dteal Kob's lei in the family picture. Tea swap oh how I the tea swap. I still have so much tea to try. mmmm tea. So what is poi? is it like those funky spikey things Karen had?

Lisa I think I'm slowly joinuing you on the "hippie side" DS and I were tie dying diapers yesterday and I bought *gasp* a pair of birks last night

Third child, its a back and forth here. Sometimes I want one and sometimes I'm about ready to send dh in for the snip. DH seems to go back and forth too. Miss E is still so new so who knows If we do I'd like them to be 3 years apart.

I almost did the co-op for the folkmanis puppets, but I resisted, it was hard though, really hard. I coulnd't resist the waldorf doll's co-op though, I'm getting a 13" doll kit : Or the bj's marketplace co-op I ordered 2 longies and a soaker : : (thats a double bagger) Alls I have to say it thank god I get the mail now. DH was get so mad when I was ordered diapers with package after packge coming. I don't really have anything to swap or I'd be doing those too. DH says I'm worse than a little kid about getting mail.

DS had an exersauser and he really liked it. DH hates clutter so I don't think we'll be getting one, plus I'd rather spend the $$ on wool : (I think I'm a wool addict)

Well I'm being harrassed by a dog for pets

[LEAW]

Heheh Az, I got my first birks when I was 15, because it was "cool" in my high school. Love them, and *shudder in a bad way* you can get them at Sam's club for cheap now, if you just want plain ones. I've always had sandals and clogs though, and I should really try some shoes. MIL had a German exchange student for a year and she was willing to order them for me - they have lots more choices and some cooler looking stuff in Germany, go figure! And silly me, I never did get any shoes.

OK I'm starving, and I'm sleepy and I still haven't found a place for lunch.

Lisa

[pixiexto]

Morning Mamas!

*yawn* Someone tell me why I insist on staying up until the wee hours of the night? Don't I learn that one girl or the other will surely be up & ready to go in so few hours? Today I actually fared quite well and almost made it to 8am before Tess awoke! Brynn's still snoozing, happy as a clam to have the bed to herself. It's so funny because Tess was such a cuddly sleeper ~ LOVED to be tucked right in to my tummy, almost like still in the womb. Brynn will give these little kicks to me in the morning until I move away from her, and then she'll return to her deep slumber. Silly girl

All of this talk of baby bling is cracking me up! Oh, how I used to bask in the idea of having all of these terrific, natural toys (magiccabin-esque!)... now I look around and see - - - - a ride-on hippo.... a ride-on Pooh car.... a shopping cart .... a play kitchen.... the only wood in site is T's doll house! I know people who have done the plastic purge, but I'm not into that. Brynn has a lack of bling :LOL We were laughing last night at the playground about how much Tessa LOVES the swings. I mean, loves them. We joked that it was because we did not have a baby swing, and is now exhibiting deprived behavior :LOL Exersaucers are just waaaaaaay too big for my obsession with having lack of clutter.

Lisa, sounds like a growth spurt with all of that night nursing! Since Lauren & Brynn are bday buddies, does that mean I can expect one shortly myself? Better stock up on the sleep while I can get it! How's Zoe doing?

Wow, those hospital bills are staggering! I mean, it's not surprising in one way because of the amazing things that they did, but still seeing the numbers.... Wow. Laura, do you really owe that much?!??! My goodness, I long to return to the Canadian health care system! That's crippling.

*ouch!* about the ants! I got bitten by fireants a couple of months ago, and even though I only got a couple of bites they stung pretty fiercely! The common, house ants bit you though? Never knew they bit either!

Karen, that's so neat that Luka's already been out in the Ocean! (um, I guess in Hawaii that's not so uncommon, hey?) We're planning to head to the coast of GA in the next month, at which time Brynn will have her first dip in the Atlantic! I think she'll take to it fine ~ she loves the bath, and had a bit of fun in Tessa's little pool earlier this week. Your boys must be like fish in the water!

Middle kids? Still on the fence here. We've talked of having four children, but something inside of me feels happily done. Of course, as DH says, you don't ask someone with their mouth full of spaghetti if they want another bite! Ask me again in a couple of years.

Annie, oh those are precious pics! What a proud little graduate! Ah, the family shot isn't the greatest but still it's nice to see the whole fam damily!

Tonight I think we're going to head to an outdoor movie that they show in our town. Not sure what the movie will be, but who cares really? It's the kind of thing where you bring your blanket, your lawn chairs, your snacks ~ kind of like a car-less drive-in. I'm a big drive-in fan, so pretty excited about it! It'll be great for Tess ~ she can run and play is she likes, and Brynn can just kick back and nurse or people watch.

Coffee is done perk'ing.... must get some...

[LEAW]

Oooh Kathy, sounds fun. (What am I doing still here, answering all the posts??)

I love drive in movies.

I don't think it's a growth spurt, I think she's making up for the lack of nursing all day long. Yesterday she sat in the stroller or on my lap for almost 3 hrs. w/o a peep for food, and I offered it!

Poor Zoe is pretty swollen still, but her side is healing. Where they put the IV on her paw doesn't look so hot though, I think she might have gotten a few too many licks in on it. She's also sad and mopey about wearing the cone, but when we take it off she's very sneaky about licking her paw, and I just don't want to have a hotspot on my hands, the dog I had as a kid had a growth removed on her foot and she turned the spot into a hotspot worse than all others, actually ended up with the insides of her ankle showing. *yuck*

Still haven't had breakfast or found a place for lunch.

[LEAW]

Oh yah, medical bills. Scary how much $$$$$$ they charge. One of the only bills we saw from Lauren's birth was for the epidural, and that was something like $1700 for the service PLUS more $ for the drugs. I suspect it all goes to paying for the malpractice ins and the 2nd summer home. Heck, the ER visit for Zoe was $500.

So the reason for this reply was an entirely different subject, but of course I can't remember WHAT I wanted to talk about!

We really don't have space for the 'saucer and other stuff (oh yah, a leapfrog baby gym too), but I just dumped the 'saucer in the crib for the night. Ideally it'll live in the kitchen when we get the big mess done and the cabinets in.

I'm going to kick myself in a few minutes when Lauren wakes up... not showered not eaten not figured out where we are going, just hanging on mdc all morning.

[pixiexto]

hee heee, Lisa... hanging in right along with ya

Tessa's playing with a balloon that we got her last night, and Brynn's inspecting the mobile. I know I'll have to get up & going soon, so I'm just enjoying those last few moments of slacker time.

Yeah, all of those interventions are big $$! In "thinking woman's guide to a better birth", she goes into that a lot & speaks of how so many of the common birth practices in hospitals serve to plump up their pocketbooks. Sad and scary.

Poor Zoe. Any more from the friends with the dog that bit her? I'm so sorry that she has to go through all of this! Poor conehead.

[LEAW]

Yep, one of my doula friends who teaches a babycare class at the hospital we used actually isn't allowed to promote natural birth in the class because of the $$$ you get for the epidural and drugs and more. Sucky!

Conehead, lol. No, no news from the friends. I got a phone call from the doggie ER asking for permission to release the invoice for all the stuff they did to the friends since they paid for it. Apparently there is a puppy version of HIPPA out there. I'm finishing an email to them, I wanted to edit it. Dh says it's "too motherly" but honestly, I'm a freakin mom, and I'm worried about the babies and their faces not getting chewed off!!

Ok I'm REALLY starving, my belly hurts and I'm getting hot. Going to eat. Really. Going to eat.

[mamabeca]

Morning - yawn - I'm w/Kathy staying up too late and getting up way too early. I caught an hour w/Ori but he sucked and sucked and w/continued Thrush it's not so comfy. WILL THIS EVER END??? W/dd it was over by now - but maybe it's cause I'm still eating allergins...

I SWEAR it wasn't me. I do know what poi is (it's kinda like tofu made of taro, a tuber that grows all over the pacific islands) and was the staple food for a loooong time. Now, of course, you just pop into the grocery and buy it processed and packaged. You can actually get it on the mainland, too.

So where's the coop site? I've never even lurked there to see how it's done. I'm a little afraid...

Laura - that's a WHOMPER! How can you pay that? That's almost as much as the morgage on our house! Geesh. I hope they put you on a payment plan of like 100$ per month for, what, 65 years!? Not that Megan isn't worth every penny - 'cause WOW is she ever cute! But (shiver in a bad way) WOW.

On Bling - we have a bit of bling. We have a lot of the little chairs, but only one that does any of the cool stuff, and one that swings but you have to crank it - no batteries. If there's no batteries, does it count as bling? Then he's gotten a bunch of gifts that rattle, crinkle, etc - the dinosaur (pull the cord the spikes light up) and the turtle (simpler, love the turtle!) which has a mirror on it's belly - very cool. Um. That's it, actually. Oh, no - he's got the gymini mat - the floor one w/the arches. Red black and white. Also hand me down, but he hates it. Time to fold that sucker up 'cause it's sitting inthe living room and he HATES being in it. He is a funny little boy. But he slept last night from 11:45 until 4:45!!! Then we nursed for half an hour, then he was UP like the sun. sigh. FIVE HOURS!!! I do feel rather human. So why am I yelling at my dd??? She's impossible sometimes.

Ok, I'm off to dress and wash for the day. Kinda excited to have some time w/dd, although we did get off to a rough start. I swear it wasn't me that added the titles (REALLY!) but they are good ones! Annie mentioned the Got Poi? for Karen, so even someone who didn't know what poi is could have put it in. How about Jessi?! Our trickster see ya!

[sweetpeasmom]

Lisa- I think that first place you metnioned sounds yummy to me makes me hungry.
I'm also been on pc all morning. Kaitlyn slept in so late, was nice for a change.

Andy- have no idea what thrush is really. but doesn't sound pleasant

Kathy- enjoy your movie- I was just reading our paper and they are starting up the town park movies soon. I can't wait.

Well since I had some time, I wrote up my birth story. I figured it will be nice for Megan to read when she's older.
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=292687

Nah I don't think we need to pay one cent. I was told everything was covered 100%, don't know why they send me it anyways. I keep getting them here and there. I think in total Megan was a 1/2 million dollar baby.

[Malama]

Laura- I'd say Megan was worth every penny . And thank goodness you had to pay none of it!

Lisa- that is sick about your friend that teaches the classes. just sick. It's disgusting how childbirth has turned into such a $$ maker. I think I read somewhere that that's where hospitals make most of their money- because it's a constant. people in and out all the time.

to clarify, poi is a paste made from taro- a root crop grown all over polynesia. it's starchy, like a potato- but doesn't taste like a potato. it has little flavor on it's own, though some is a little sweet and many people eat it soured.

andy- I'm sorry your thrush is still so bad! mine isn't so bad anymore, but I wouldn't call it gone or anything. yuck.
the coop is here and is part of the trading post.
I just found that waldorf dolls one and am gonna get some raw materials for dolls. I made a few last year and had so much fun. I think I'll make one for Luka and then make a bunch for gifts. I like the soft kinda pillow-like ones.

Az- don't feel bad abotu all your spending. I'm right in there with you! If I had known about the BJM coop I woulda partook, because that's a LOT cheaper than ebay, but I was too late! and I've been buying tons. diapers, fabric, bought some nursing dresses, wool, etc..... but I did sell a bunch, so feeling more justified than usual!

we have NO baby bling here. and I doubt we will. well I guess we have the little rocker, but that's a necessity that I mulled over for ages, but get's so much use. unless someone gives us something (and I don't know people who buy things lik exersaucers) it's not coming here. I just can't stand things that make noise (electronic noise). I also never thought I'd have plastic toys, but you know that that's hard to keep up. we got all kinds of stuff now, but there are few toys in this house that have truly lasted. Like the huge amount of blocks we have, and the wood train set, and legos and some stuffed animals. many other things have just come and gone with little play.

kahty- my boys are fish. they are in a real beach phase these days. we've been going a lot and they are in the water the whole time. why not? it's hot and it feels GOOD!

ok, gotta go and change Luka's diaper. He's squirming all over me and making screechy kitty noises.

[3_opihi]

Ooh, crafty talk! I get all my waldorf doll kits from www.whereswaldorf.com. She's an online friend of mine. Make gorgeous stuff. Right now, I have two 13 inch dolls that need hair sewn on. I love making the things.


I used to be somewhat of a toy nazi. We only had all the wooden, educational stuff. Lots of montessori and waldorf and what not. Through the years, we've aquired lots of crap. I freak out every once and awhile and get rid of it all, but it always comes back. I would say we have about half waldorf, half crap right now.

I actually like those exersaucers. We go one from a friend when we lived in Arcata, because we had all wood floors and Kobe kept falling over and wonking his head on the floor. He loved that thing. Actually, dh and I were quite intrigued with it too. I think we played with it as much if not more than he did. Ah, but thats usually the way it is with kids toys :LOL Ours doesn't make any noise though. I cant handle the electronic toys. <shiver> in a bad way.


Jessi, we love to read to Violet too. Right now, I think her favorite's are :Love Songs of Little Bear Goodnight Gorilla and Hand Rhymes WE usually have to do two books at once. One to eat and one to read!
So, we're supposed to have a beach day at Kobe's preschool. But its raining, Hmmm? I wonder if I should just go down there anyway?

[LEAW]

Ok diaper obsessed, try this http://www.diaperdecisions.com/modul...rder=0&thold=0

So Nonnie and I went to the Blue Flamingo, a 50's diner and had fish fry for lunch. Lauren was a doll there, and then fussy back at her house.

It's sunny and stormy at the same time, my favorite weather.