Nursing didn't work for me with my first one. I'm not sure how much the c-section may have interfered, what with the anesthetic and all. Plus, (cover your eyes, Kalshane) I'm one of those women with really small, flat nipples. The kid just couldn't latch. We tried putting a baby bottle nipple over mine, tried pumping. Could barely get a drop out in 15 minutes. It was a relief to turn to bottles.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
SailAweigh - Sep 22, 2005 10:12:36 am PDT #4219 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Susan W. - Sep 22, 2005 10:15:57 am PDT #4220 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I had all good intentions of breastfeeding for a year, but it ended up not working, and the attempt was an ordeal. I'm not sure what I'll do if we have another kid. I know it's best...and yet Annabel is a fine specimen of a child, and I don't feel like enduring another ordeal if I can help it.
Aims - Sep 22, 2005 10:28:54 am PDT #4221 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Nursing was the one thing that I did right away and well. Em latched on like a little monkey and suckled away to her heart's delight. I quit when she (watch those eyes Kalshane) stretched my nipple out 6 feet with her gums.
Kalshane - Sep 22, 2005 10:41:11 am PDT #4222 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
cover your eyes, Kalshane
This makes me laugh. I realized I've been told that (or "cover your ears" for face-space) numerous times in the last year.
Where are all the other menfolk around here, anyway?
SailAweigh - Sep 22, 2005 10:43:13 am PDT #4223 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Oh, they pop in and out occasionally. D. Gris was around for a while, but haven't seen him here lately.
Connie Neil - Sep 22, 2005 10:49:24 am PDT #4224 of 10001
brillig
The babies have invaded here, too! Babies everywhere!
Sorry, but there's been a cranky baby here at work and people just giving it "Oh, look, a baby, how adorable!" looks. I'm working here, people! The day care is the building next door!
You'd think these people had never seen a baby before. My county has a birth rate comparable to Bangladesh, for god's sake! Really, it does.
erikaj - Sep 22, 2005 10:49:51 am PDT #4225 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Victor, too. Sometimes.
Amy - Sep 22, 2005 10:51:05 am PDT #4226 of 10001
Because books.
It is a pretty estrogen-heavy thread, isn't it? Hadn't really occurred to me before.
Steph L. - Sep 22, 2005 10:52:58 am PDT #4227 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
What's VBAC? Do I even want to know?
Amy - Sep 22, 2005 10:53:58 am PDT #4228 of 10001
Because books.
Vaginal birth after caesarean.
When Cs when done the old-fashioned vertical incision way, you had to have Cs thereafter, for fear of rupture, etc. Now, most of the time, you can go the other route, if you choose.