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Date night!

November 10, 2009

My mother-in-law, MJ, was up last week from Florida.  She wanted to watch Maia overnight, and while I was hesitant about it for awhile — because of 1) my boobs 2) that’s a long time not to see my baby 3) Maia being in a strange place with a relatively strange person — Chris and [...]

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Why Maia will eat spaghetti every day for the rest of her life

October 19, 2009

I laugh and laugh every time I watch this.  SHE CRACKS ME UP!

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Month Eight

October 13, 2009

Dear Maia,
Nothing makes one so aware of the passage of time as becoming a parent.  As usual, I’ve had a hard time accepting that you’re growing up, and even though I’m typing this at 11pm on the 12th, I still call you my 7 month old.  I can’t believe we’ve been together for so long, [...]

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Nursing Strike, day three.

September 18, 2009

Well, she’s still striking.
I feel miserable and rejected.  The fact that she won’t nurse is constantly on my mind when I interact with her.  I’m trying so hard not to let my frustration with it change the way I feel about myself as a mother, but failing.
Failing.
Worse than that, this stress, this ball of guilt [...]

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Did I inadvertently step into a musical?

September 11, 2009

We took Maia to a “Baby and Me” playgroup today at a local Ontario Early Years Centre, to check it out.  Originally, Chris was going to take her by himself, but I decided to go along for the first trip.  Um.  It’s safe to say that now I will be the one taking her, and [...]

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You can actually hear him whimper SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE!

September 8, 2009

Maia’s all over the place, crawling, standing, cruising around holding onto furniture, and experimenting with standing on her own.  She’s trying all sorts of new foods — oranges are a recent favourite — and being generally charming.
One thing she’s begun doing is chasing the dogs around the house.

WORD OF WARNING: This video opens  up with [...]

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Being a twenty-something

August 15, 2009

I introduced myself as a “writer” at our CPR course this afternoon, because I felt ashamed to call myself (just) a “blogger”.
I’d rather be a writer who blogs than a blogger who writes.
The other woman who was part of the class — and 36 weeks pregnant! — told me that blogging is the wave of [...]

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Month Six

August 13, 2009

Dear Maia,
This will go down in history as the month you grew too quickly.  Oh yes.  You see, Mommy just went back to read her Month Five letter to you, where she says such quaint things as “you’ve finally learned how to roll from belly to back” and “you are learning to crawl“.  Haha.  I [...]

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Nursing in public

August 4, 2009

It’s World Breastfeeding Week! To celebrate, each day this week I’m going to have a breastfeeding-related post.
In some ways, I feel militant about breastfeeding — or perhaps more accurately, I feel militant about my right to breastfeed, any where and any time.  In Ontario, nursing in public is protected as a human rights issue.
I [...]

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How we established breastfeeding

August 3, 2009

It’s World Breastfeeding Week! To celebrate, each day this week I’m going to have a breastfeeding-related post.
I’ve written in detail about my birth experience, but I haven’t really mentioned anything about establishing breastfeeding.  I felt like my nursing relationship with Maia was just as easy as everything I read during my pregnancy led me [...]

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