Postcards from the Mothership » Baby days

I was just settling into the comfy chair with Lucas, preparing for our regular bedtime routine. He’ll nurse for a few minutes and then I’ll cuddle him to sleep – the third child truly is sp...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2009/04/27/in-which-lucas-makes-his-preference-clear/

It’s been a good long time since I wrote about my breasts, hasn’t it? Vexatious things have been behaving themselves lately, but surely we’re overdue to complain about them. Ironically, I j...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2009/03/13/my-breasts-are-not-so-evil-after-all/

My darling baby Lucas, Has it only been a year you have been in our lives? Has it already been a year? How can both of those things seem so surprising at the same time? You, my third son, my beau...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2009/02/08/a-love-letter-to-lucas-age-1/

When all else fails, upload videos of your children in all their adorable cuteness: Hard to believe he’ll be a whole year old next week! No related posts.

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2009/01/30/did-you-get-your-daily-cuteness-factor-today/

Hey, whaddya know, it was a dead tie between poop and sleep! Poop had the lead going into yesterday afternoon, so that’s the one I have ready for today, but we really gotta talk about sleep thi...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2009/01/22/oh-good-lord-has-she-been-reduced-to-blogging-about-poop/

Be thankful you aren’t Lucas this week. Poor guy, not even eleven months old, is having a hell of a week. One week ago, last Tuesday, I brought him into a walk-in clinic because he had a fever ...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2009/01/06/poor-baby/

Uh oh. Cue REM’s “It’s the end of the world as we know it.” The baby? He’s mobile. We are so farked. He’s not quite crawling yet, but he knows how to lean over from a sitting position...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/12/01/hes-a-goer/

Huh. Hard to figure out how to play this one. It’s not every day you get quoted in the Globe and Mail, after all. For an attention junkie like me, it doesn’t get much sweeter than that. When ...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/11/25/in-which-i-trade-my-mothers-loyalty-for-a-few-inches-of-ink/

I’ve always said that six to nine months old is one of my favourite baby ages. Old enough to sit up but not old enough to creep around; old enough to love you obviously and joyfully but not old...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/10/28/lucas-the-amazing-interactive-baby/

After waking me up seven, count ’em SEVEN times between four and six am, the baby has been asleep for TWO AND A HALF HOURS. Not 32 minutes. TWO AND A HALF HOURS. With his father. While I was at...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/10/25/so-thats-how-it-is/

For the last two days, Lucas has been averaging a 32 minute nap, a couple of times per day. That would explain, for those of you who are hanging on my every word (hi Mom!), why posting has been s...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/10/23/32-minutes/

Did you know that in 2005, the National Capital Region came in first out of 234 participating locations in the breastfeeding challenge, with the largest number of participating mommies? Join us t...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/10/08/ottawa-moms-join-the-breastfeeding-challenge/

A couple of weeks ago, on my post about baby food and the culture of fear, Marianne left a little comment about “baby-led weaning.” (Don’t you love Marianne’s comments? Her perspective as...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/10/06/baby-led-weaning/

I was flipping through Tristan’s baby calendar the other day, comparing Tristan and Lucas at seven months of age. (Heartbreakingly, I seem to have lost my 2004 kitchen calendar with all of Simo...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/09/30/grannys-revenge/

Did you hear the choirs of angels singing, and did you see the beam of light shoot down from the heavens to glow lovingly over Lucas’s high chair last week? Or maybe that was just me singing th...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/08/28/lucas-at-six-months-and-a-bit/

When he’s really frothed, I can rely on three songs to calm Lucas down. “You are my Sunshine” is my lullaby standby, and I have sung it to all three boys. It reminds me of my Granda, my gra...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/08/15/lukeys-boat-is-painted-green/

I’m not overly shy about breastfeeding in public, but I’m also not very good about being discreet. I have to be able to see what I’m doing, yanno? Even so, through two and a half boys worth...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/07/19/two-reactions/

Every now and then I feel the need to conform to the expectations of those who castigate mommy blogs as self-reverential shrines to minutiae. What could be more self-indulgent than four minutes o...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/07/12/lucass-first-cereal/

My vexatious breasts are at it again, finding new and horrific ways to cause me grief. I suppose I should know better than to tempt fate with a question like “what’s next.” The answer is a ...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/06/12/the-next-plague-mastitis/

As I mentioned, we had Lucas’s four-month checkup this week. He’s doing great! He’s maintaining his string-bean physique, bang-on the 50th percentile for weight, but 90th percentile for hei...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2008/06/11/solids-now-or-later/