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kettunainen

How Timely...

Aug 21, 2007 15:57

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... )

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thewronghands August 21 2007, 20:54:44 UTC

Would it work to ask for activities or time together rather than stuff? That's one of my defensive bulwarks against accumulating a lot of crap that I don't want as gifts. (I too am natively much, much more of a minimalist than our ambient culture wants to support, but I love my friends and enjoy spending time with them and having adventures.) It might be hard since he's still so little, but "I think he'd really love a day at the science museum with you" might help offset the toy barrage later on.

roxy_fondue August 21 2007, 22:19:57 UTC

glad to hear that things are working out so well for you all! and that is good to point out about the breast-feeding/bonding issue. you're totally right in that one doesn't need to feed the baby in order to bond with him or her. that's actually a ridiculous notion now that i think about it!

kuaimao August 22 2007, 01:04:02 UTC

I'm coming to Toronto in October and would love to see you and the family at some point. :)

Does "no stuff" include books, by the way?

kettunainen August 22 2007, 15:56:31 UTC

um... *sheepish grin* no. :)

we have an amazon wishlist that has lots of parenting books that we'd love to have. it's linked on my userinfo page.

and I would love to see you again!!!

tamago23 August 22 2007, 01:49:54 UTC

Also, non-lactating people do NOT need to bottle-feed a baby in order to bond with it. That's just silly talk, and yet SO MANY PEOPLE think this. It's absolutely untrue. There are plenty of ways to bond with a baby: holding, wearing, carrying, talking to, singing to, cuddling, changing diapers, reading to, playing with, etc. Lots of ways. And if you ignore all those other vitally necessary ways in which to interact with a baby in favour of bottle-feeding, you do a disservice to yourself and to your baby and, well, to everyone because you're perpetuating a myth.

You know you made me sing, right? <3

kettunainen August 22 2007, 15:57:27 UTC

:D

oh, I'd really like to link to your well-thought-out comment that you made in Lynx's LJ recently about the same sort of topic. Can I can I? :)

tamago23 August 22 2007, 17:15:12 UTC

Go ahead and make my day. (Seriously, it'd make my day.) :)

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kettunainen August 22 2007, 15:59:13 UTC

I know that wheat-free pepperoni exists, but it usually comes in the uncut sausage form (my gods, does that ever sound like a double entendre...). If it's possible to get that, then woohoo! Otherwise, I'll have to look around for it myself to see if I can find me some wheat-free junk-meat.

mmm... pizza! and a visit from C! Yay!