So far, it's not as bad as I anticipated. Then again, optimystik is still at home. I'm trying not to be resentful that his company doesn't top up parental leave. He's using his paid vacation to stay at home. I've had to remind him that he's using vacation but this is not a vacation. I hope that it helps him feel less shitty about not getting a vacation ( Read more... )

I just discovered a podcast of Mayim Bialik (from Blossom): she's now a super crunchy mom of two and she uses Elimination Communication with her two sons!

I think that's totally fantastic!

He's walking now. Pretty much full time, too. Yay! I thought he'd be an early walker because I was and so was optimystik, and because he was an early crawler (5.5 months!). But his crawling was too efficient for him to give a shit about other modes of transportation. At least he took his first step about a week before his first birthday. That makes me happy ( Read more... )

His coos are insanely cute; his smiles are just gorgeous, and very time he tries to laugh, he gets the hiccups. He'll figure it out soon enough ( Read more... )

EC continues apace. We pee and poo A several times a day, though it's exciting when we actually save a diaper (meaning we take a diaper off clean and put the same one back on clean after he's done his business). What mostly ends up happening is we take a diaper off that has a skidmark on it from a wet fart, let him do his business, then put a fresh ( Read more... )

caught another giant poo/double pee this morning ( Read more... )

I heard A. grunting a fair bit this afternoon, which typically means poo, pee, or gas. So I thought I'd try to catch whatever he might be needing to get rid of. Catching a pee or a poo involves holding the baby over an appropriate recepticle for such things, not actually catching the poo or pee in your hands or lap. I chose the bathtub, since, with ( Read more... )

Diaper-free babies' fad swells, despite critics -- they bill it as potty training, but it's not training. It's paying attention to the signals that your child gives you that he or she needs to pee or poo. You can help them relax and let them know they're in the proper place to pee/poo by using cuing sounds, but not all parents use cues. Likewise, ( Read more... )

Casaubon's Book: 52 Weeks Down
Week 17: Toys R Not USWe're all doing just fine. Not a lot of time to spend at the computer, though. We have weathered the storm of A getting his gut flora situated, which involved lots of scream-crying and hideously agonizing gas pains. Things are much better, even though his poo stinks more now ( Read more... )