Along with The Gisele Thing – it prompted ABC to do a “story” on Water Birth, in which they consulted one of their “experts”/OBs and … well, yeah, it was annoying. The Midwife Next Door’s take on it here. An excellent retort to OB/GYN’s objections to home birth here and here. And then a great […]
A couple weeks ago, after the whole Gisele Bundchen debacle, I wrote a long, ranty, angry post and then immediately drafted it because I was afraid it would sound too preachy and… well, ranty. I’ve since taken out the possibly preachy sounding bits (I hope) and here’s the rest of it, re-posted. (In case you […]
Mr Nikki’s birthday is this coming Tuesday. I spent some time wracking my brain about what to get him. This being the first birthday where I’m not working, I feel silly buying him anything. I mean, I still think of it as buying him something with his own money, know what I mean? I’ve gotten […]
I read this post, from The Midwife Next Door, awhile back. It’s titled, “Are Women Who Choose Home Birth Control Freaks?” I’ll let the post speak for itself, but uh… short answer? No. I chose home birth, not to be in control, but to prevent a lot of unnecessary pain & intervention. I wanted to […]
I’ve been all over the place, spouting off about natural/home birth and posting links & resources, but I haven’t shared any of that here. No reason why, I just haven’t! So here’s a start. I read a zillion natural birth/midwife blogs. One of them is Birth Activist. One of the recent posts was “midwife vs […]
Since Felix has been giving us a good long 6-7 hour stretch of sleep at night (followed by another few hours), he’s also been getting one less feeding. Between that and the massive amount I’m able to pump when he first gets up (far more than I’d have gotten if I’d pumped twice in the […]
Chris has been recording our little Nugget’s many noises. Of course, of all the happy sounds & cooing he recorded, he sends me Cranky Nugget, first. Click here to listen.
To recap: Our son was born on November 13. On December 16, movers came in and packed up all our stuff, and we spent 3 days in a hotel. Mr Nikki continued to work for 2 of them. On December 19, we got on a plane and moved up to Seattle where we’ve spent the […]
They say you don’t know what you got till it’s gone, but I’ve found the inverse can also be true – you don’t know what you didn’t have till you have it. Err… what I’m trying to say is that I didn’t realize just HOW unhappy I was in LA until we moved up here. […]
If you asked us, and anyone who spent a day or two with him, what words you’d use to describe Felix, you’d hear things like mellow, easy, easy-going. When my parents were here over Christmas, they made the observation that he only ever cried when he needed something, then he got it, and was quiet […]
We hired a professional cleaning service to do a thorough, top to bottom cleaning of the house before we move in next week. They started today, and told us that they couldn’t finish it because the house is “really, really dirty.” So they’ll be finishing it up tomorrow. We also decided to have the 3 […]
I have a husband, a baby, and a HOUSE. Hell’s minions are having a snowball fight, as we speak. We closed on Thursday afternoon, got the keys on Friday afternoon, and went over to check it out again today. Remember I mentioned that the previous owners had tax liens against them? Quite a lot? Well, […]
