I ran across something interesting. I still need to do some more reading throughout this web-site. But, it's just apalling. Non-consensual Pelvic Exams.

I went clothes shopping over the weekend. And while I no longer feel like everything that I wear has to be black anymore. I simply can't seem to find anything else out there that I like. Nearly all of the clothes that aren't black are in really horrible, icky spring colors and floral patterns. It's just not my style at all. So, I bought some nice, ( Read more... )

A few days ago I got a package in the mail from my aunt. It was the old crib bumpers from my younger sister's crib that my mother had made. She doesn't have any kids, but somehow ended up with it anyhow. I'm not entirely sure why she sent them. My mother had been in Montana visiting with her and my grandmother the week before. I'm not sure if they ( Read more... )

Today we are planning to plant the little one's birth tree. It's a Japanese Maple, variety: Shaina. It's a bushy dwarf variety, with fine burgandy colored leaves. Last night we bought the pot that it will live in for the next few years, until we settle down in a house of our own. We bought the tree nearly two months ago, on March 1st during our ( Read more... )

So, last Saturday we finally took the twin bed out of our living room. It had been sitting there for a 2-3 weeks (maybe a little more), ever since my dad brought it over. It's the bed that I used to sleep on when I was a kid and now here we are using it for little Miss M. It is now in our bedroom between our queen bed and the wall. So, now we ( Read more... )

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Somebody posted this in the breastfeeding community the other day. I thought it was worth repeating here since a lot of it is very true with us. And it is very silly! =)

Mama's Terms for Nursing: HumorBoob-Lift - The unconscious lifting of ones breasts to check which is fuller. May be done at any time regardless of where you are or whom you’re talking to, ( Read more... )

So, the trip to the pediatrician today went okay for a change. Hooray!!! I didn't hate him and neither did K. I will have to post more about it later, but for now I have to get ready for class.

She weighs 20 lbs, 15 oz with a diaper on. And she was measured as 27 inches long!!!!

Wow, after reading this thread I have to say that I am very glad that my parents did the whole baby sleeps in the same room with parents thing. Not to mention that I am eternally grateful that my mother breastfed and that I got to see it when I was about ten years old when my little sister was a baby. I have no idea what the laws are in California ( Read more... )

I have a cold that I've been fighting since Thursday. It didn't help things any that we had a party on Saturday and spent a lot of time running around on Friday and Saturday preparing for it. I think that I wore myself out and that didn't really help a whole lot. A friend of ours who is around here a lot started getting sick the night before last. ( Read more... )