Thanks Shay for the help. I am thinking of getting her the holistic parenting book because it seems pretty good and maybe get her the baby book too as a reference.
I just bout the Holistic parenting book it doesn't look very long either.
I just bout the Holistic parenting book it doesn't look very long either.
: I thought I'd already bragged on him on all of my regular threads. 
He's a redhead, so he's tHRH (the Hot Red Head). I'm absolutely smitten with him, he's fantastic. Everything about him thrills me endlessly, and he feels the same way about me (which rawks! Rawr! 
. He's met the kids, who adore him and he loves them, too. Bean's actually called him Dad twice. 
: She likes him a lot, but Bean and BooBah are insane about him-- so much so that yesterday when I got back from the farm BooBah said, "Oh, hi mom. Where's tHRH?" "Well I didn't bring him." "Why not? You should go pick him up!" "He has to work tomorrow." "So when does he finish work?!" and so on. 
I'm so deliriously happy. 
hope I am not too late.
off.
Thanks!!! Very interesting being on the other side.
I see his rationale, he didn't want to become attached to this baby and then have my sister come and take her back in x months are x years. Unfortunately, my sister does have a history of doing these things (leaving her children with others instead of raising them herself). It makes me sad knowing we are giving the baby back to such uncertainty. This baby has been long enough to have thought we are her parents and my kids are her brothers. 
: No one told me breastfeeding would make me hungrier than pregnancy! DS is in the 90th percentile for weight and height, so my body is working hard. I'm still figuring out how to manage things, I guess--cooking, cleaning up, keeping baby happy, not going nuts in here--but everyday I feel like I have a better handle on it all. We're going to Houston this summer, in August, to see my father and stepmother and my sister, her husband, and their 3 little ones will be there at the same time so I am super excited. And I'm cloth diapering the baby, which I am happy about, and my sister has ended up switching to cloth because my niece had a rash that wouldn't quit. too bad about the rash but pretty cool that now things are sorted out with the cloth. I think I'm going to finally break down and get a stroller. It's going to be a bit hot for the Moby, I think, and this boy is almost 20lbs as it is.
Do what you've got to do, and save the sling for shorter trips & around the house. 
Oh, and back carries are, in my experience, much easier with heavier babies. (I have no idea how you carry your little dude, but I'm assuming it's round front because that's what most of us do.)
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