From the monthly archives:

June 2004

June 29, 2004

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so much for exclusive breastfeeding

June 29, 2004

while eating ice cream, i dropped a glob of it on rio’s eye. she was asleep, and didn’t appear to noitice. while i groped around for a cloth to wipe her face with though, it melted down across her nose and onto her mouth. she promptly stuck her little tongue out a lapped it up [...]

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baby cold

June 29, 2004

rio has the most pathetic cold. she’s losing her voice and presumably has the same scratchy sore throat i do and painful gas bubbles. the gas bubbles upset her, and she pulls these elaborate commedia del arte style frowns and then lets out these tiny, outraged creaks – she sounds like a rusty hinge.

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Pacification

June 27, 2004

Rio hates the car. She’s very expressive about this. So expressive that I routinely spend long stretches of time praying for a shoulder to pull onto while I’m navigating the endless construction zones of Massachusetts roadways and she’s screaming behind me so intensely I’m afraid a) that she’ll injure herself (she did burst several small [...]

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Rio's first month, graphically speaking

June 24, 2004

More baby pictures. Really cute ones.

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A month of motherhood

June 23, 2004

Rio is four weeks old, which makes this my one month marker for motherhood. So far, I’m everything I wasn’t when I was pregnant. I’m calm, I’m happy, I’m healthy, relaxed, confident. I’m having fun. I’m getting less done than I hoped but feeling pretty zen with the fact that some things never change and [...]

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oh! she looks just like….

June 13, 2004

a baby, really. She reportedly has Martin’s eyes (though his are brown and hers are still that indeterminate baby blue), my nose, the Kid’s features (he looks strikingly like his mother), my hair, his hair, my lips, Martin’s face, my grandmother’s hands, Martin’s fingers, his feet, my baby fat, his baby fat and… My stepfather’s [...]

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an embarassment of riches

June 13, 2004

the other day, i went to see the new Harry Potter film (and got to see the entire movie – go Rio!). I was wearing my pretty new nursing top and my jungle print nursing bra and these fancy expensive wool nursing pads recommended by Finnish midwives, according to the label. in addition to being [...]

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baby magic

June 9, 2004

I just watched M, without waking up, react to the baby asleep on his chest becoming fussy by propping her up on his knees and holding her little grasping fingers. When I came over to them, he relaxed his arms and she slipped into mine. I nursed her, and when she fell back asleep, I [...]

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healthy baby

June 9, 2004

rio had her first doctor’s visit today. she weighs ten pounds! that means she’s actually *gotten bigger* in the past two weeks. My milk is making her grow!!!! I am truly amazed. She is of course practically perfect in every way. And she’s acquiring eyelashes.