Author: Ann

Yesterday, I ventured out of the house for the first time without bringing Lucy along. It felt really strange! I was only driving about a mile away to our local grocery store, but I was stressed the entire time. It is a weighty thing to be the sole source of food for a person; it really made me want to get home quickly. Continue reading “First outing without Lucy”

I went for my two-week post-delivery appointment with Jenny the Midwife on Monday. She says everything looks good! I was glad to have the chance to ask her a few questions about my labor experience, especially since this is the last time we are seeing her. Continue reading “Labor tricks that worked (and didn’t)”

Today, Lucy is “two weeks years old” (that is how Jon likes to say it :). I think all three of us have learned a lot about each other over these past two weeks. Even with all the reading I’ve done, caring for a baby is definitely different from how I thought it would be. Continue reading “Two weeks”

We had a rough couple of days this weekend, as you probably read from Jon’s “post”:/news/2006/road-warrior/. Lucy is generally not a difficult baby, but this nighttime fussiness thing was starting to put us over the edge. I knew I was feeling pretty anxious about her crying when I realized I wasn’t interested in eating chocolate (a sure sign of distress for me). Continue reading “We love our friends”

My latest theory is that Lucy is an easily over-stimulated baby. (Not surprising, considering how her parents react to over-stimulation?) I think every baby book I read discusses over-stimulation (which is helpful) and they recommend a pacifiers for an over-stimulated baby (also helpful) but “not until breast-feeding is well-established” (less helpful for the present moment). Continue reading “To pacify or not to pacify”

Lucy has succeeded in convincing us that she is the cutest baby ever. I always thought that people with newborns couldn’t get anything done because of time-consuming diaper changes and baby care and sleep deprivation. But the truth is, we just want to spend all of our time looking at her. Here are some of my favorite antics of hers: Continue reading “Irresistability”

It was much easier to make decisions about how to care for an infant when I was reading books with the baby still in my belly. Now I see that the decisions we make actually have *consequences*, and it is pretty easy to worry if we are doing the right thing. Continue reading “Second-guessing”

I wasn’t expecting to feel as good as I do just one week after giving birth. Of course, I’m still moving pretty slowly and feeling sore at times, but it is much better than I expected. Here are some things I’m already enjoying about my newly non-pregnant body: Continue reading “One week after delivery”

Yesterday we had our first trip outside the house with Lucy (as long as you don’t count standing on our front stoop for about 90 seconds with her last Friday morning). We succeeded! Here are some of Lucy’s experiences from the afternoon: Continue reading “First outing”

I haven’t written much about the labor experience yet, but it’s not because I haven’t been thinking about it. Mainly I haven’t written about labor for these reasons:

Continue reading “Granola girl”