Bottle Warming: From MUCH experience, we finally discovered that the best thing for bottle warming on the go is actually a thermos full of boiling water (obtained from obliging coffee machines) added to a cool bottle to warm it up just a bit. When it’s new, 2 oz. hot to 3 oz. cold seemed to [...]
My baby is sleeping peacefully in his crib after getting cuddled to sleep by Grammy Lee and then by Daddy. My husband is busy baking chocolate chip peppermint cookies. We have our own bedding and towels unpacked and pictures on the walls and almost all of the boxes of stuff are unpacked. We still have [...]
So most of the time these days I’m posting about my little boy and how insanely in love with him I am. It’s true. I think I spent most of the morning just breathing in his baby breath (how does it smell so good?) as he tried to fall asleep and feeling his little arms [...]
So it’s time. Camper is 10 days away from his 3 month birthday, I can’t believe it! I’ve been feeling more and more like it might be time to not only grow more serious about our sleep rules that we’ve established (and been at least 80% good at keeping) but to begin a more formal [...]
Before I gave birth I gave the actual birth/babyhood of Jesus only a cursory thought. It happened. He was born, he was a baby. Mary was his mother. This Christmas it’s very different for me. As I listen to the hymns and contemplate Mary riding a donkey into Bethlehem I think about how I could [...]
So. We’ve got all of these “things” and “techniques” designed to help Camper fall asleep and stay asleep for a few hours at a time. First there is the lavendar lotion and bath wash provided by Johnson and Johnson, the miracle blanket, a warm bottle, then the newly aquired white noise CD we got off [...]
The Thanksgiving Holiday was a good one. My Mom-in-law thought that I might have been wigged out by the reservation, and I was thinking I might be, to be honest. We didn’t experience any pan handling or get chased by any stray rez dogs (even though there was a beautiful blue boxer mix that I [...]
I think we’re learning how to “embrace” Camper’s sleeping schedule. A friend of mine told me that she gives her baby boy warm bottles at night, as opposed to room temperature, and that it helps him sleep longer. I was reluctant to try warming bottles because I was afraid that Camper wouldn’t take the lukewarm [...]
Everyone had weird dreams last night! John woke up and told me he had a dream that he was driving and was pulled over. That’s not the bad part, apparently they cops thought he was driving with our baby on his lap and took Camper away and wouldn’t give him back. He had to call [...]
