my parents are coming to visit again tomorrow. i can't wait to see them or rather i can't wait to take advantage of a couple of extra pairs of arms.
things have been good. on saturday the three of us checked out a new restaurant for lunch and then went for a walk, on sunday daz & liz visited and we went out for lunch again and yesterday we took G to Bath for the day. we had to take her to the hospital for a scan. it turns out that she has a malformed right kidney. there is a good chance this will never affect her so i am taking comfort in that. she was so good lying on the enormous patient bed. in fact she is pretty much always good - we wouldn't be able to go out so much if she wasn't. daz & liz said we were pretty layed back as parents (in a good way) and i like to think this creates a good vibe that keeps her content. the only problem we have had is with the breastfeeding - and these issues still haven't been resolved. we have a lactation consultant coming tomorrow night and i've made the decision that if no progress is made after that session i am ending the torture. i needed to know i'd done everything possible so i could be comfortable with my decision and once i've seen this woman i will have. i've come to the conclsion that it's more important to me for us to be happy than to breastfeed.
7:06 p.m. - June 03, 2008
it's only 9.40pm and i've been ready for bed for the last hour. baby G is sound asleep and i can hear her gently breathing on the monitor. i read to her for a while before she went to bed and she didn't seem to notice the difference between Little Penguin and Book Ten of the Dresden Files, despite the fact that the latter has 100% more swearing in it. there are so many wonderful moments when you have a baby but for me there are also many sad moments. we still haven't sorted out the feeding - if anything it's going downhill - and her constant throwing up is not so much worrying but frustrating because she gets herself, me, the cg and everything around her covered in milky sick. the hv said it was normal for some babies and i have no reason not to believe her but it's just so much sick it's crazy. we can't even let other people hold her without putting a sheet on them first. i just keep telling myself to enjoy the good things and remember that it won't be long before she has grown out of the bad things.
9:40 p.m. - May 28, 2008
having a baby really changes your social life. we used to go out for dinner all the time and see movies or go watch a band, now we do (decaf) coffee and cake dates with other couples or i meet up with the ladies (and little ones). yesterday, we had Lucy, David and baby Fraser over for tea and cookies, tomorrow afternoon we are heading over to see Vickie and Richard and meet baby Eve, and on Friday i have invited all the NCT group ladies and their babies over to our house for a little get together. i haven't even had chance to join any local baby groups yet. i have to admit that i am more than happy with this change in my life. at some point the cg and i will get chance to have dinner and a movie alone together again but in the meantime my social life is more busy than ever, which is amazing considering that we moved to a new town in a new country only a few months ago.
11:15 p.m. - May 27, 2008
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