Just one of the reasons I would never, ever want to birth in a hospital:

Baby's first bath.

For those who don't want to click on it, which I wish I hadn't since I already knew anyway I wouldn't like what happened "behind the scenes" when they whisk the baby away: it's a nurse roughly handling a beautiful pink newborn baby under a running faucet (!) ( Read more... )

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( Cut for cute overload. )

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a contented baby falling asleep in your arms, with a look of absolute peace on her face ( Read more... )

I'm even having clients ask me if I've had the baby yet.  I didn't think some of these old people had such spectacular memory...

...not!  I'm pretty certain she's not coming today.  As I've reminded everyone, babies don't keep calendars, and most first babies come late.  Especially in my family!

I'm in no hurry.  I'm still saying March 21.  

Baby decided to do gymnastics at 3 AM, which rendered me wakeful and suddenly hungry; around 4 I realized I wasn't getting back to sleep until I ate something.  I got up, ate, went back to bed, and had finally drifted off around maybe 5:30 when the alarm went off at 6.  T & I carpool three days a week, and two of those days he has an early class, ( Read more... )

An unsent letter ( Read more... )

Diaper service--check.  Maybe after a few months I might want to think about buying my own dipes and washing them myself; the cost would be less.  At this point, though, the time investment is critical.  I have a hard enough time keeping up with our normal laundry.  Maybe this will change once I'm working from home, but it's hard to believe I'll ( Read more... )