Can she roll over on her own yet, Aimee? That's when our pede said it was OK.

She can't.

No matter how often I put mine on their backs, as soon as they could, they rolled to their fronts and slept like rocks. They were a lot less fussy that way.

I've heard OBs say that they routinely see women at the 6-week checkup who are already pregnant again.

Heh. t TMI If they'd had MY childbirth experience, they wouldn't have been. Things just weren't quite, um, healed enough that soon. t /TMI

We're thinking of waiting till 2008 or so, even though I'll be 37 then. Combination of wanting to buy a house, give me time to write a few more novels and hopefully sell one, give me time to get in better shape, and I'm just not ready to face labor again anytime soon. I've never been so strongly tempted to slap DH's grandmother as when she said at Christmas that none of her labors were over 12 hours, and isn't it wonderful how you forget about the pain as soon as you have that wonderful baby in your arms? Well, Grandma, maybe you did. I adore Annabel, but I still remember labor all too clearly.

isn't it wonderful how you forget about the pain as soon as you have that wonderful baby in your arms?

I wonder about women like that. I think there must be something broken somewhere.

I don't know, Aimee. Obviously most of us slept on our stomachs, and we're fine, but I'd try to find a way to encourage her to sleep on her back. But I'm paranoid about stuff like that.

Most recommendations I've heard for babies who won't go to sleep on their backs is to let them fall asleep on their stomachs but then, once they're asleep, turn them over.

I box from Lush just got here addressed to Dad. I got all excited at first "late Christmas present? Really really early Birthday!!?" Then I thought about it and realized he probably saw what he bought me and how much I liked it and decided to get it for his GF.

I called, just to let him know it's here, and bingo! Birthday present for the GF.

Re: Baby names. Several of the reactions I've read about Julia Roberts' choice in names has been along the lines of : OMIGOD!!1!! She's going to ruin her children's lives! with such horrible names!!"

I didn't realize that Hazel was such a hideous choice. Or Phineus for that matter, although I realized she spelled it differently. It's not like she named them somethibng like Aura Desire and Hawk Maxiumis. That I could understand freaking over.

it's official. i will never ever stay caught up in Bitches and Natter. then i get discouraged by the number of posts and put it off and put it off until i have thousands of posts to catch up on. </whine>

I really hate feeling all un-loopy when it comes to you guys. so how about we do some mutual friending on lj? my username is tiggz. i tend to spend most of my online time there lately. mostly because i've been a whiny, emotional mess. i'm sure that makes all of you want to run out and friend me right now. anyway...invitation is there. i'd love to add some buffistas to my flist.

thanks to P-C and deb for the emails. made me feel a bit more loop-y.

tiggy, when I go away for a weekend or can't make it online, I sometimes have to just skip to the end. I'll sometimes threadsuck and try to go back and try to see what conversations ensued while I was gone.

Or I try to stick to the John H Natter Diet, only applying it to Bitches.