Thanks so much, megan. Yeah, we're at the california pacific medical center on Buchanan. We're okay for now, but I'll let you know if we need anything.

I'm glad I never heard anything about Bjorns causing hip displacement, because AB hated the sling and loved the Bjorn. We had her facing outward from 3 or 4 weeks, too--kid had mad head control skillz and fussed if she couldn't see around. But all this is YBabyMV.

I usually picked Annabel up quickly when she cried, but she didn't really cry a lot. I'm not sure what I would've done if she had. I know I went in intending to follow much more of an attachment parenting philosophy than I really did--it just didn't seem natural to who either of us were. Which is not to say I didn't pay tons of attention to AB, because I did. It just wasn't constantly-holding attention.

Thanks for all the thoughts, guys. And brother isn't an asshat. Really. I think he's just sleep-deprived and stuff. And, he's got a point. I usually do have an opinion, and usually when I keep my mouth shut, it's for a very specific reason. So...

Anyways, it looks like I've broken my mom and dad's washing machine. I probably didn't actually break it, but it stopped working while I was using it. Ugh.

Don't embalm me, that's too creepy. Or cremate me -- too creepy.

Plus, I'm sure Dallas would rather they kept you fresh.

Does anyone else have songs picked out? Or am I the only morbid one?

I think my brother wants the theme to The Wombles. "Making good use of the things that we find / Things that the everyday folks leave behind."

I'm sure Dallas would rather they kept you fresh.

I thought it was cats that ate you and dogs just sat and waited for something to happen.

Not according to the X-Files.

Depends on how long you give them to think about it.

Poor Queequeg.

I feel like someone filled my sinuses with that expandable foam insulation.

I thought it was cats that ate you and dogs just sat and waited for something to happen.

I would guess that cats would not be interested once you stopped twitching and dogs would get more interested the stronger the carrion smell got. I haven't run an experiment or anything. But it does fit observations I have made of individuals of certain species reactions to mice.

Yay google!

At the 1992 American Academy of Forensic Sciences conference in New Orleans, a forensic pathologist stated that individuals living alone sometimes died unexpectedly and unnoticed. He claimed that, in his experience, a pet dog would go for several days before it resorted to eating the owner's body. A pet cat would wait only a day or two. What he didn't mention was that cats are obligate carnivores and, unlike dogs (which are more omnivorous), cats cannot consume other potential foodstuffs that might be lying around the home (fruit, veg, cookies). For a dog, the corpse might be a last resort, but for an obligate carnivore, it may be the first resort.

First hit.