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I don't even know why I am bothering to start writing this because I can hear a baby beginning to squawk in the other room. There is just no other word for what she does. I think all that time calling her "Ducky" has affected her somehow. She squawks and she says "äääh". M is very proud of her for starting off with a Swedish letter.
I buckled under intense pressure by my mom and my husband, and we let her try a pacifier this weekend. I insisted on waiting at least two weeks to make sure the whole breastfeeding thing would work out--they say to wait two weeks to a month. Did I ever mention that I have a pacifier aversion? I can't remember. It is not that I have a problem with them as a concept, and I recognize that they are wonderfully functional and useful. I just think they're horribly ugly, and I didn't want to have a stack of baby photos where you can't even see her face for the great big old piece of plastic. She did not care for it the first time, which I confess made me smirk a bit, and then she finally got the hang of it the second time. We've given it to her a couple of times since then, and she will suck on it industriously for a few minutes before getting tired of it. The reason I gave in really is that there is a slight SIDS reduction benefit, supposedly, so not letting her try it because of my own vanity is just not something I would do. I hate how it looks even more than I thought I would, though. I worry about the stupidest things sometimes.
Then, the cloth diapers. We are still doing that, part-time. I have nine fancy diapers and a stack of prefolds. Three of the fancies are too big yet, and so we have only six to play with besides the prefolds. We haven't quite figured the prefold thing out yet--I know the theory of how to fold the stupid things, but yet, attempting to do it is another matter. I'm going to order more fancy ones, which I hate to do because she won't be wearing these tiny diapers for that much longer. We are now using the cloth wipes almost full-time (not for traveling) after a very slow start. M is totally on board with the cloth diapers, and is actually the one requesting that I order more of the diapers. He is so on board that he's all for it even though I'm not really allowed to do laundry, so he's been doing most of the diaper laundry. (I am cheating somewhat with baby clothes and diaper laundry, but they don't weigh much so it barely counts.) His own particular sticking point has been how soft and lovely they are, and how good you feel about putting them on her because they look so comfortable. I knew he agreed with the cloth diapers in theory--it was basically his idea--but I wondered how it would go over once we were actually changing diapers.
I think there was one more thing that I thought I should mention since I talked about it before I actually had a baby, but I can't remember what it is. She is making even more wake-up noises so I don't have time to think about it any more, though. Must run!
I buckled under intense pressure by my mom and my husband, and we let her try a pacifier this weekend. I insisted on waiting at least two weeks to make sure the whole breastfeeding thing would work out--they say to wait two weeks to a month. Did I ever mention that I have a pacifier aversion? I can't remember. It is not that I have a problem with them as a concept, and I recognize that they are wonderfully functional and useful. I just think they're horribly ugly, and I didn't want to have a stack of baby photos where you can't even see her face for the great big old piece of plastic. She did not care for it the first time, which I confess made me smirk a bit, and then she finally got the hang of it the second time. We've given it to her a couple of times since then, and she will suck on it industriously for a few minutes before getting tired of it. The reason I gave in really is that there is a slight SIDS reduction benefit, supposedly, so not letting her try it because of my own vanity is just not something I would do. I hate how it looks even more than I thought I would, though. I worry about the stupidest things sometimes.
Then, the cloth diapers. We are still doing that, part-time. I have nine fancy diapers and a stack of prefolds. Three of the fancies are too big yet, and so we have only six to play with besides the prefolds. We haven't quite figured the prefold thing out yet--I know the theory of how to fold the stupid things, but yet, attempting to do it is another matter. I'm going to order more fancy ones, which I hate to do because she won't be wearing these tiny diapers for that much longer. We are now using the cloth wipes almost full-time (not for traveling) after a very slow start. M is totally on board with the cloth diapers, and is actually the one requesting that I order more of the diapers. He is so on board that he's all for it even though I'm not really allowed to do laundry, so he's been doing most of the diaper laundry. (I am cheating somewhat with baby clothes and diaper laundry, but they don't weigh much so it barely counts.) His own particular sticking point has been how soft and lovely they are, and how good you feel about putting them on her because they look so comfortable. I knew he agreed with the cloth diapers in theory--it was basically his idea--but I wondered how it would go over once we were actually changing diapers.
I think there was one more thing that I thought I should mention since I talked about it before I actually had a baby, but I can't remember what it is. She is making even more wake-up noises so I don't have time to think about it any more, though. Must run!
