Category: b’herayon
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Have baby, will travel.
It is the eve of our first party-of-three family trip… involving a plane ride. That’s right; tomorrow we will be inaugurated as that young couple with a baby that you love to hate on planes. Yet another life milestone. Here’s hoping it will go well. The definition of going well is one of the following:…
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Not your momma's birthday.
Recently, my birthday passed but for years now I’ve just not been a birthday person at all. Occasionally, growing up (as my ponderous tye-dye free-thinking self), I would consider – along with saving the manatees – the idea that perhaps birthdays should be about mothers, not kids. After all, the mother is the one who…
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Adapting to new life.
The Koala isn’t the only newbie around here. It’s hit me in the last week that I am a new person. It’s been a short process (36 hour labor) and a long process (it’s about a year since I found out I was pregnant). But here I am, changed. I’m a mother. I’m a food source.…
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Someone to talk to.
I don’t know if it’s the cutest thing or the saddest thing… But when the mobile over Koala’s crib automatically shuts off after 15 minutes, he pleads with it to come back on. And then I sneak by his room in covert-mode and turn it on with the remote control (!?) and listen to him squeal with…
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Being a mom.
At this point in my life I’ve known two too many 12-year-old girls who have fought cancer and lost. The first time I was a kid. This time I’m a mom. Being a mom at a shiva call for a kid makes all the difference. There’s something about kids with cancer where they tend to…
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Life in snippets.
Time is going by cliche fast. You hear it and you hear it and then it happens to you. The Koala is nearly four months old. I’m nearly four months not-pregnant. The Koala smiles, laughs, plays. My maternity leave is over and I’m juggling work and baby. I’ve slowed down with updates here, of course.…
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Koala update: fourteen weeks.
Nothing but good to report about the Koala. He’s been giving me once-in-a-while nights of eight-hour sleep. He’s been relating really well to his uncle, who’s in town. He went for his first ‘swim’ and took his first splash in the face like a champ. And… he started laughing on Friday. It was a pool-side giggle…
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Leaving maternity leave.
Tomorrow is my first day ‘back to work’ (technically, working from home). Fourteen weeks have flown yet moved really slowly. Just the way I like it. It’s not easy getting back into work mode, of course. I like my job but it can’t compare to being entertained by a Koala all day. To make myself…
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Koala update: twelve weeks.
The three month mark has passed. I haven’t gone insane (in a while), my hair hasn’t fallen out (too much) and I haven’t gotten sick of staying home all day with the Koala (that’s true). I’m pretty sure somewhere out there people are taking bets. Shame. I’m not aching to go back to work and…
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Where bonding starts.
They say you are supposed to have this awesome bonding with breastfeeding. Sure, I love eating too, but for me and my kid it’s not the meals when we bond. It’s the diaper changes. Today I’m changing his diaper for the 8756294 time and he’s smiling at me. And I think to myself, aw, what…
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Koala update: ten weeks.
Is there any other example of how much we can change and grow in just a week or two? Do we ever grow and change as rapidly as we do at two months old? A lot’s happened in the last month, and I’ll try to break it down. We’re inching closer to doubling the Koala’s…
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Just want to shout it from the rooftops…
I JUST GOT SIX CONSECUTIVE HOURS OF SLEEP!!! Why, I could… I could run a marathon! Cook a Thanksgiving meal! Do a Phd! There is nothing in this world – at least in the newborn world – like going to sleep when it’s dark and waking up when it’s light. Nothing. (And this kid’s started…