Posts tagged with ‘baby’

Fiery is 9 months!

From July 07, 2009 @ 4:35 pm

My baby (and I can still call her that) is 9 months old! She’s officially been outside of the womb longer than she’s been in. She is developing SO much more personality with so many more preferences. If I’m holding her on my hip I would usually hold her leg with the opposite hand but Fiery immediately pushes my hand away. She likes to be held a certain way.
I’ve been surprised how much she enjoys it when we read to her. I was reading “Where the Wild Things Are” to her yesterday and she actually was laughing at some of the parts. She can be totally cranky and soon as you say “do you want to read a book?” she perks up and looks over at the book shelf.
She knows what “no” means. She will deliberately make noise to show me when she’s about to bite a cord, shake her potty (and yes, it does happen, and yes, pee goes every where… yuck). And then she teases me, grabbing the cord, I say “no..” she drops it, grabs it again, I say “no Fiery..” and then she drops it. I find it hard not to chuckle at her innocent evil. What’s ultra adorable is at some points she decides to leave the room and when I say, “Fiery, where you going?” and start to go collect her, she starts B-lining it as fast as she can go screaming “ahhhhhh!”
Elimination communication is getting easier and easier. Fiery holds it in longer, goes quicker when she’s placed on the potty, and pees less. I think we’ll be experimenting with a toilet seat reducer as that way I won’t have to dump out the contents of her potty into the toilet :-).
As far as eating goes Fiery has been eating more (and really enjoying it!) Here’s an example of her ingenuity with vanilla yogurt:
Cloth Diapering

From April 22, 2009 @ 10:04 am

So after finding a wonderful and encouraging resource at the Maternal Wellness Center (MWC) where we took a class on the subject, Timmy and I decided to cloth diaper. Cloth diapering has come a long way from safety pins and cloth (that’s what my mommy used on me!)

I highly recommend cloth diapering. In fact, I think it’s downright silly not to.

Here are some reasons:
- Your impact on the environment will be significantly less. The average child uses about 600 diapers. That means you will have contributed 600 diapers to some landfill and because they’re made from the same material as menstrual pads, they will either take a VERY long time (not in your life time, or your child’s life time) to disintegrate or they will never break down because they’re in a closed landfill.
- You will save thousands of dollars.. that’s right, thousands. You can comfortably cloth diaper your child for about $500-$1000. If you buy disposables and your child is in diapers for the diaper average (2.5 years) you’ll be spending about $2000 if you buy a relatively-medium priced diaper.
  
  AND your cloth diapers, if you take good care of them, can last through 2 kids, meaning you’ll save about $3000 even with the added cost of the cloth diapers.
- It’s easier to potty train your child. Disposables are “great” because the child can not feel that their wet. That isn’t so with cloth which gives your child a good reason to stay dry.
Common Objections:
- You don’t want to do more wash: We bought a total of 32 diapers and I have to do wash 6 times a month. That’s it.
- I don’t want to scrap poop into a toilet: You don’t have to! They have something called “rice paper” which is essentially thick toilet paper and you can “catch” a poop and then dispose of it in a toilet (did you know it’s actually illegal to throw out excrement? Obviously a law that’s not enforced).
Now, I don’t want to sugar-coat it. It is more work. A lot of couples wait until their infant is on solids because dealing with breast milk poop is like dealing with daily diarrhea. But, to be honest, it’s not that bad. The rice paper catches most of it and if it does leak out onto the cover you wash the cover. But I think that the inconviences far outweigh the positives.

It’s something you can ask for at your baby shower (to lower cost even more). We use Growing Greens (we got hemp instead of cotton because hemp absorbs more) with Imse Vimse Wool Covers (we have 24 of those) and then we have 8 Bum Geniuses which we use for going out because they’re one piece. I have heard great things about Mother-ease also.

And here’s a picture of me at 5 months pregnant about to go to the class:
We’re Pregnant!

From May 12, 2008 @ 12:00 am

So it’s a bit late, we know. With all the craziness and site changes its been one of those “we should really get around to doing that.” So even though anyone who would ever read this already knows, we wanted to announce it more for the site :-).
- When I’m due: October 6, 2008
- When we found out: February 5, 2008; 5:30 AM
- Our first ultrasound: February 28, 2008; 8 weeks (pictured right- we saw the heartbeat! 176 bpm)
- When I first felt the baby: April 16, 2008 (15.5 weeks- yes I know its early, but its definitely the baby)
- The “big” ultrasound: May 20, 2008- 1 more week!!
- Today I’m: 19 weeks
We’re super excited! God made it extremely clear that this was only a surprise for us (maybe I’ll write more about it in another post). On the day that we found out Tim and I both strongly felt (independently) that God was telling us it was a boy. We have absolutely no practical idea why God would tell us something like that but I’m excited for anything God wants me to know about my child. So although we weren’t going to find out the sex originally I think now we are to see if we were hearing God right :-) After all, we are human.

This is a picture of us on the day we found out. We look totally out-of-it. I’m not sure if that was because it was so early in the morning, if we were still completely shocked, or whether we were just tired from all the excitement (I don’t really remember). I always thought that I would be jumping hysterically up and down and crying/laughing when I found out, but when I found out out I showed him the test, smiled, and we hugged. It was more like a joyful-calm.