Saturday, August 23, 2008
medic!
"What's the matter, mummy?"
"I've got a little tummy bug, Jack."
"I'll go get my doctor's kit!"
[listens to my heart, looks in my ears and mouth] "Your belly is hurting because your daughter was in your belly. I need to put a bandage on it so it doesn't 'splode."
And so my belly didn't 'splode, and I felt much better after a couple of days.
[Fast forward one week, arriving at my in-laws', Jack announces...]
"MUMMY HAD A POO BUG!!"
Well. So much for doctor/patient confidentiality.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
my colourful girl
I came across a term recently that I'd never heard before: Rainbow Baby. Apparently, this is used to describe a baby born after a miscarriage, stillbirth, or death of a child. (Because they "bring colour into your life" after a loss.)
I got pregnant with Mia exactly 19 days after finding out Squeak had died. Immediately after I got a positive pregnancy test, I looked out the window and saw this double rainbow:
I always felt that Squeak and Mia were connected somehow, and the double rainbow always signified this to me. Both Squeak and Mia are rainbow babies because I got pregnant with Squeak immediately following a very early loss before the 5 week mark. My double rainbow babies. I like that.
Friday, August 15, 2008
splash
Mums of boys - you know this is SO true.
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Oh yes. Put this on the list of 500 Things I Keep Forgetting To Blog About. We recently purchased a Tripp Trapp highchair, and my word. It rocks. I was never happy with Mia sitting so far from the family table (due to the enormous tray on the old highchair) and wanted something that could be pulled up right to the table. The Tripp Trapp not only takes up far less room, it can be adjusted for use right up to adulthood. You buy the waist bar/harness and seat insert separately, then you just need to remove them and lower the seat as the child grows. I love it...and wish we'd discovered it 3 1/2 years ago. Along with cloth nappies, slings, co-sleepers, and the other million things I purchased several years too late. Doh.