Things That Didn’t Work, #5: The Part-Part-Part-Time Nanny

R., our Nanny Hopeful, came last week, on Monday and Thursday for 4 hours each day. She was recovering from a bad cold. She had said she was well, only coughing a little at night. Not so! She practiced the hygiene rituals of a normal person instead of one whose child spent three months in [...]

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Things That Didn’t Work, #4: Avocado

I was optimistic about this fruit (yes, did you know avocado is a fruit?  did you know that a fruit is a ripened ovary?) because several mothers I know had great luck with it as a first food.  Not so for us. There was much gagging, yet no vomiting as with the peas. I mashed [...]

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Things That Didn’t Work, #3: Peas

We gave Mister Finn peas and he looked at us in utter disgust, insulted, like “WHY would you put this in my mouth?” Then he gagged dramatically and threw up.  Bananas had a similar fanfare.  There is an element of betrayal in his facial expressions. Too bad when this happens because then we have to [...]

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Things That Didn’t Work, #2: Breastmilk; Storage of.

How ironic that I wrote this post the other day, and today discovered that NO ONE will be drinking my frozen and defrosted milk, whether bought, donated, put on cereal or in coffee. This is the second milk crisis for me. The first one was the thing that finally tipped me into official Depression at [...]

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Things That Didn’t Work, #1: C-Section Incision

Well it did work in the sense that a baby was indeed pulled out of it, and it was indeed stapled shut, and then a week later it did, indeed, open. This is rare, but does occasionally happen. I could apply that sentence to much of my babymaking experience. My lovely wife had to stuff [...]

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