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I remember I used to feel like a badass when we brought someone back at work. There was nothing quite like seeing that rhythm of death on the monitor, and then watching someone jump back from the edge.

Comforting your baby or soothing her to such an extent that she nods off to sleep is SO much better than that.


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My low-birth-weight baby is now a breastfeeding success story ( Read more... )

Don't have much time for a big post, but I figured I'd post some pics for people to tide them over. Brace yourself, I'm firmly convinced she's the cutest thing on the planet. Then again, I might be biased!

http://flickr.com/photos/geribartz/

Okay it's not really breaking news. I thought everyone already knew this, but after my marathon phone session with Amy, I was informed NO, NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING ( Read more... )

I went to the doctor and I am proud to report that I gained four pounds! Not only did I gain, but the doctor also told me I could safely travel to my brother in law's wedding in August. This has me really excited, because I was desperately bummed that Matt was going without me. I really want to see his family and be there for that special day and ( Read more... )

I'm updating my livejournal so I can join some parenting communities and not feel like such a lonely prego. I suppose I'll post my posts from my blog to here, make some friends, keep other friends up to date, ET CETERA ( Read more... )

Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little-known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little-known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names ( Read more... )

I stole this from Jase, who just stole it from someone else anyway ( Read more... )

"And what, monks, is right understanding? Knowledge with regard to sadness, knowledge with regard to the origination of sadness, knowledge with regard to the stopping of sadness, knowledge with regard to the way of practice leading to the stopping of sadness: This, monks, is called right understanding."