tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62358568846807739002024-03-12T18:44:58.090-07:0048 and pregnantDue late March, 2009. Still surprised.isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-3488010326997851312010-02-05T20:52:00.000-08:002010-02-05T20:54:37.562-08:00Love ya, see you elsewhereHi all,<br />Baby J is 10.5 months. I am 100percent exhausted. But I have a book coming out and my attention is going to be focussed on the marketing and promotion of that. For now, I am saying au revoir to this project. I am no longer 48 or pregnant. If you are just finding this now, email me if you'd like info on the book and those projects. But for now, best of luck to you all. If you are over 45 you can get pregnant. I did, and I wasn't even trying. God bless....isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-71223841438223982362009-12-21T07:40:00.000-08:002009-12-21T07:41:13.159-08:00how old am II realized that naming this blog this meant I was, in my head, forever 48, Should I rename and move elsewhere?isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-64046072302816353642009-12-06T19:03:00.000-08:002009-12-06T19:10:01.232-08:00on the pillSecond child, different child. This summer, it took all I could do to nurse, pump, nurse, pump and it still wasn't enough. I am the biggest nursing zealot I know but in August I realized we were down to 6 stockpiled frozen milk bags. We have to go on formula I found myself saying to myself, and a week later to my husband. We nursed some more but we came to a mutual conclusion that she had moved on sometime in the fall. Partly, it was the teeth -- I worked hard to nurse and pump and keep the supply up but this child really is voracious. I nursed my son exclusively through 7 months and we slowly introduced food. He was weaned at 18 months, and the last 3 months had very bad manners nursing. We'd do it but he'd have a devilish expression and then he'd bite and then he'd come off and it turned into a wrestling match which he liked. <br /><br />Friends w/girls have reported the girls have weaned themselves earlier. Maybe she can be out of diapers sooner too! Anyway, I can't say I'm completely sad about this -- I have nursed my children, they are healthy, I have done what I wanted to do and I did what was best for each child. J is 95th percentile -- at 8 months she weighs a little less than half the 6 year old. She is thriving and wants to eat everything. We are holding off but there's an eagerness about food that is undeniable. <br /><br />And so today, Dec. 6, I'm on the pill for the first time since...2001? I was never fully happy with the pill back in the ogod, early 80s (2 weeks), mid-80s (4 months). I went on in 2000 and had no ill F/X. I'm hoping it will be the same this time w/loestrin, or "microgestin 1/20" <br /><br />It seems really crazy to worry about getting pregnant at ogod 49 and having another baby at 50 but I've had a lot -- a lot of dreams about being pregnant and they were definitely disquieting. And so now that J is having her own little meals and will probably be charged at the chinese buffet in another month, I am making this change so maybe my husband and I can have a lovelife again. Now all we need is time and circumstance.isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-25799433468166390162009-11-11T12:29:00.000-08:002009-11-11T13:00:40.076-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfASjh-iKFDyxPu9Sf8nVIVmyAXUExvgBKpbGM0ZbJOOLH8RBS2aV2ekvVxd-6WlyB2xnTsRAjeVMtZMsAuEIwN6DpTSGDugmVNIyDcges-kJFVH9gsbKshiHHGIOtnAbKmBFpWvQB8o/s1600-h/1109+jet+bath.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfASjh-iKFDyxPu9Sf8nVIVmyAXUExvgBKpbGM0ZbJOOLH8RBS2aV2ekvVxd-6WlyB2xnTsRAjeVMtZMsAuEIwN6DpTSGDugmVNIyDcges-kJFVH9gsbKshiHHGIOtnAbKmBFpWvQB8o/s320/1109+jet+bath.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402946121582754722" /></a><br /> 7 months, likes her bathisabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-91922965168554962372009-10-30T07:48:00.001-07:002009-10-30T07:53:01.503-07:007 monthscame yesterday. She is eager to start on all kinds of food though still nursing for comfort and some nourishment. Nearly 18 pounds. I've been making slings to carry her out of fleece but nothing is quite working as it should. I had a dream last night that I was pregnant again AND DIDN'T KNOW IT. First time for that -- fairly appalling. <br /><br />I saw the wife of someone I'm in an organization with. This woman has a 3 year old, is probably still in her 30s and lost her baby last month during the birth process. Cord tightened when baby dropped. Totally freakish, scary and disturbing. I felt incredibly guilty seeing her at library with my son and V. She seemed in a daze and I asked my son to invite her son to read a story with us. Which they did. But I've been haunted by her story since I heard a few weeks ago. <br /><br />I am sure she and her husband will try to have another child, but all of us who are parents are chilled to the bone even knowing such risks are possible. And last night when I dreamed I was pregnant, and could feel the baby in my sleep I kept saying I wanted an elective C-section to avoid any birth trauma. Which I didn't want, and didn't have with either kids. <br /><br />This is a sad entry. I am not looking forward to winter and I need to make more money.isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-37899675930904700582009-10-08T08:29:00.000-07:002009-10-08T08:40:41.986-07:0049now that sounds old...Only in terms of experience. I was an "adult" during the first Reagan administration.It seems completely surreal that the ambitious and inconsistent young woman who apprenticed with a fleet of tough newspaper people would grow past all that with a small child. <br /><br />whose first tooth popped yesterday....isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-54887534808868337712009-09-30T18:33:00.001-07:002009-09-30T18:34:14.928-07:00I'll be 49 in a week...but will keep the title. All I want for my birthday is uninterrupted time in the morning. Or time in the house with no one here. The last time I had that for more than 45 minutes was 3 weeks ago. Though my idea of having a great birthday is taking my son to see the local fossil museum....isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-38180505110935047192009-09-18T22:03:00.000-07:002009-09-18T22:11:53.860-07:00need. more. time...My beloved child has a VERY short leash and a VERY short temper. I think she's also getting more gaseous. We were out campaigning today and a voter held a 9 month old who looked smaller than my 5.5 month old. Go figure. Anyway, my time away from her needs (need to be fed, changed, held, amused, changed position, switching toys, smiled at) is reduced to a sliver. Which is how it should be in her world. But there will be payback when I'm old(er) and (more) eccentric and need to live in the desert for a while.<br /><br />It's kind of funny that I really do feel the need to do things I never felt I needed to do before. I'd like to live in the desert for a while. The rainforest really beckons and so does any road that goes north to the Arctic Circle. I am drawn to starker landscapes however (I really just want to see all the bugs in the RF and have coffee IN Central America). <br /><br />I have always been self-employed so that if any of the pieces fall away, or I leave, the show goes on. And it does. I will be 49 in another few weeks and this is the 2nd birthday in my 40s that will probably not find me paralyzed with depression. After my son was born my mind wanted me pregnant but my body wasn't in the swing. Now my body is REALLY in the swing, which I can tell by 28 day cycles and 10 days of EWCM tmisorry! But I still remember having the flu for the umpteenth time while expecting and getting huger and less able to shake this stuff off and not being able to take a deep breath and saying, "it's ok, I don't need to be pregnant again." <br /><br />This afternoon, I finally got her down for her nap so we could go campaigning later and her going to sleep really is like the symphony with the false endings, there are yips and squacks and of course you go check and there had been silence. So I checked. And there was our cat, Fred, a muttonheaded stripey tom sitting on the bed next to her and she was petting his ears. She looked at me and I mouthed, "you are dreaming I am here" and backed out and she eventually slept. <br /><br />Fred is a whiney, clumsy, underfoot, foodaholic, wallscraping annoying cat much of his life, but this made me really love Fred.isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-58831658040474489242009-08-29T18:36:00.000-07:002009-08-29T18:43:03.068-07:00thanks tedTalking to a client recently and I realized I really am annoyed that health care doesn't follow you from job to job. We live in a very expensive state and just recently signed onto the state health plan. It won't cover the chiro. but we're keeping the pediatrician and doctor so that's fine by me. As a self-employed family, we were paying something like $1800 a month for health insurance, which would have driven us into debt. Fortunately, we are able to earn a good living and we have savings and we're not carrying a mortgage. There are huge advantages to waiting to be a grownup and then having a family. My heart goes out to younger moms and dads who don't have the advantage of staying home with a child as long as they wish. My DH and I both work out of our house and we are exceedingly blessed to share the childcare. We live very frugally, but very well even if our son is not indulged in his whims for "expensive plastic" as often as he'd like. We have books in every room and every night our son is read to aloud for a half hour. And during the day he's read aloud to as well. So it's hours and hours of that, and playing and making stuff. I make a lot of art out of recycled materials and am selling enough to call it a remunerative hobby. My main occupation is writing and I have a book coming out next year. For which I'll be paid, oh hell, probably in 2012. <br />But here's the thing. Ted Kennedy totally "got" our situation and he really did fight for everyone who needed an advocate. I met him once -- fleetingly, and shook his hand. He was a very big guy with radiating charisma, surrounded by a scrum of younger aides. I'm sorry he's gone. He may not have been personally eloquent all the time but his heart was always in the right place where the public was concerned.isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-36356712979875268662009-08-24T10:53:00.001-07:002009-08-24T18:45:06.556-07:00sunday<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSpGw7lXoe7JRDNlISnFRH7s1dOEU38EK6Zk3Dck2kWN2TV05A2krmD1rKUv5bx2uICgPYal6psyejwYRMb2iMcmqt4JqGWKSvgPIPmJi692fwaWf9KdmGcCY9zXaE9zMDFu1YKAA2oNo/s1600-h/0809+matt-jet.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSpGw7lXoe7JRDNlISnFRH7s1dOEU38EK6Zk3Dck2kWN2TV05A2krmD1rKUv5bx2uICgPYal6psyejwYRMb2iMcmqt4JqGWKSvgPIPmJi692fwaWf9KdmGcCY9zXaE9zMDFu1YKAA2oNo/s320/0809+matt-jet.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373590130212580050" /></a><br /><br /><br />w/her big brother's godfather (he's an actor)isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-33181251400330604402009-08-21T22:01:00.000-07:002009-08-21T22:03:57.304-07:00off the chartsShe had eye infection on vacay; we gave her DS's ointment, she's fine. Now I have it. Yuck....She also has a little cold which makes for hacking coughs which chill the blood. She had dr. appt on Wednesday, routine checkup and they weren't alarmed about cold, it's not in her chest....Her growth is incredible. she's off the charts w/growth. She grew 3 inches in last 2 months. she was 95th percentile ht/wt, now off the charts. Literally. they'd have to get another piece of paper. Her head measurement went from 14 to 16 inches. 16 lbs weight. 4.5 months. <br /><br />I'm pumping a lot of milk to keep up w/her and can actually get 2 oz. before I go to bed. The other day I was carrying her and she had her moist little mouth on my shoulder and I heard mmmaaaammmaaaaaaa. It was unbelievably great.isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-22605431211318843782009-08-15T20:34:00.000-07:002009-08-15T20:36:53.279-07:00we're backit's 1000 degrees here now. babyV woke at 12, 1, 3, 6.....and like that. I am pumping and nursing and pumping and when she has dr. app't we are so adding some heavy, starchy, keepherasleep food to the diet. On the lighter side, she has an amazing chortle when my son makes her laugh. They sound so conspiratorial. He runs when she fusses and it's all sunshine from there. We had a great time at the beach and it would have been so great to stay....through September.....isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-62901575158668719572009-08-02T19:11:00.000-07:002009-08-02T19:13:30.329-07:00off againback middle of august. more beach! w/husband's family. really need some time off despite having a book and long pieces due soon. have adorable swimmie suits for the little princess dumpling. tonight my son was having a conversation w/V. telling her how cute she is and how adorable and then I looked over at the couch and saw he was telling all this to the cat, Fred, who was sleeping right next to her. I guess this explains all the cat hair when I finally pry open her palms to wash.isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-33270613848589520512009-07-30T18:01:00.003-07:002009-07-30T18:01:41.567-07:00back from beach2 days w/family w/both kids and me. i was outnumbered...bigtime...isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-72686092842849831402009-07-12T08:39:00.001-07:002009-07-12T08:43:20.218-07:00well nowI got my period this morning. Princess Dumpling is 15 weeks today and I definitely got my period. We are breastfeeding, sometimes hourly, and I got my period. I look in my calendar and June 25-30 I definitely had lots of EWCM, so my body is definitely revving up. As my husband noted when I told him, "back in business again." <br /><br />This happened after the birth of my son, when I was fully in that gottahaveanother infant craziness. I do NOT have the feeling of gottahaveanother with PD, but it's interesting that my body is doing exactly what it did with my son. I had my period 3 months after giving birth, almost to the day. I don't like the idea of going on the pill (at nearly 49 and breastfeeding), so I guess alternatives are in order.isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-62381497480892485892009-07-06T08:21:00.000-07:002009-07-06T22:15:59.734-07:00who she is<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-s0teq_o4pPzb57QxyNhBrHLiutSGRTGGtjnvCd7dsE-pOWQY7msgMaTvi-NRfr5p_tWqDnFYoYWyr6jaADdYhHlw2QHElz4N0bmlWO3z_y2T5dmg3lQS_W0gDXWkZNQiKzuvrIh7XPw/s1600-h/0709+jetbyzoe.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-s0teq_o4pPzb57QxyNhBrHLiutSGRTGGtjnvCd7dsE-pOWQY7msgMaTvi-NRfr5p_tWqDnFYoYWyr6jaADdYhHlw2QHElz4N0bmlWO3z_y2T5dmg3lQS_W0gDXWkZNQiKzuvrIh7XPw/s320/0709+jetbyzoe.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355581670137020082" /></a><br />She likes to be facing out when being held. <br />She's in the 90th percentile, so a very long little girl<br />She looks good in yellow, pink, white...My husband thinks not so good in shades of mauve. I thnk she looks great in everything. <br />She's been able to stand with assistance since before 1 month. Now she'll hoist herself up on little chubby legs and only needs very light fingertip steadying. <br />She has a hugely satisfied gummy grin. <br />If not attended immediately after crying she can ramp that up in huge despondent sobs.<br />Nursing immediately fixes everything. <br />She sleeps on her back with her arms out to either side. <br />Light brown hair with strawberry blonde highlights and hazel blueish eyes. <br />Yesterday, I was being photographed for professional purposes and after we photographed her and everytime I said hahaha she said ahahah.isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-86760534177766646192009-06-30T08:18:00.000-07:002009-06-30T08:19:34.713-07:00everything oknurse just called. They're just abnormal cells, nothing dire. Pap test in 6 months...isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-41839758646069572972009-06-26T09:32:00.000-07:002009-06-26T09:35:47.577-07:00AfterWell, my OB/Gyn found lots of HPV cells on the cervix and a mosaic pattern, which is definitely precancerous there. They'll call in a week w/a biopsy but she said I really have nothing to worry about. This, I don't get. The next steps are: if it's precancerous, they'll do a LEEP and take it out. If it's not, I have PAP tests every 6 months. No matter what, I'm going in more often for Pap tests. It's depressing especially since I read in the NYT that Farrah's rare anal cancer has HPV connections. Anyone out there test positive for HPV? <br /><br />Given that I've been intimate with just two men since 1992, it's depressing. My former boyfriend had one other girlfriend before me, and my husband was married before (to someone who definitely wasn't the multiple partners type), so who knows where this comes from. I really hate this though and would like to feel as reassured as my Dr. says I should.isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-64162503209600699992009-06-23T20:19:00.000-07:002009-06-23T20:21:18.138-07:00entries fewer and farther betweenbecause I am overworked and nursing constantly, and school's out for big brother and irritated at marriage and tomorrow they scrape cells off my cervix and let's hope there isn't anything to write home about.isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-53141905425678674762009-06-06T12:24:00.000-07:002009-06-06T12:27:54.133-07:00food poisoning and tests...What a total pain this week hsa been. i've been out w/food poisoning since Wednesday, missign all kinds of essential activities. The consult w/the ob/gyn was about the coloscopy to be done on June 24. They'll take cells and then biopsy and then if cels are malignant it's a more invasive procedure. Frankly, I'm scared and completely helpless in this. Worse, baby V. is nursing every 2 hours on the overnight. I haven't made love w/my husband in months and months and we've been in separate bedrooms to survive the infant hours. I'm tired and spiritually hungover and irritated at many people for their incompetence in matters they probably don't even know they're incompetent in.<br /><br />The baby is now 90th percentile, and pretty huge for 10 weeks. Smiling a lot and really sweet and I love it but I'm behind on a book project and many many other things. I am not someone who does things by halves and I could seriously use an au pair right now....isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-53272826260646599282009-05-24T22:26:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:27:31.926-07:00I'm keeping the titleeven though I'm not pregnant anymore. I did get disturbing news from 6 week postpartum visit. I'm positive for HPV and they found abnormal cells on the cervix. I go in again on June 4 for a consult and a coloscopy. I'm hoping everything will be okay....isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-74032612612298427052009-05-12T07:58:00.000-07:002009-05-12T08:00:08.569-07:002 am, sometime recently. Or was it 3?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrGsYxYm6-DQvB0agut90SQ29J0YgcRGEGLA25mQbb4cDUhLlg0D_Fgpeoqo4ntctfjGrnbIssF7m-CdLIUOHIHVeFg5j3h7b7cdhyphenhyphen3P0sfVxWFT5JAaKUSDUT3zmkDLn1Cfoqu_CErh0/s1600-h/0509+jet+yawn.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrGsYxYm6-DQvB0agut90SQ29J0YgcRGEGLA25mQbb4cDUhLlg0D_Fgpeoqo4ntctfjGrnbIssF7m-CdLIUOHIHVeFg5j3h7b7cdhyphenhyphen3P0sfVxWFT5JAaKUSDUT3zmkDLn1Cfoqu_CErh0/s320/0509+jet+yawn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334952050790016562" /></a><br /><br /><br />who knows...gotta love it. thank god I don't have to handle heavy machinery. and this is after an hour of fun!isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-88430366942102265692009-05-05T19:33:00.000-07:002009-05-05T19:41:34.693-07:00a reader wrote in MarchHi Isabelle,<br /> <br />I tried to post the following on your blog, but am having computer issues. Would you be so kind to do it for me.<br /> <br />Many thanks, and may God Bless.<br /> <br />Hi Isabelle,<br />Jan gave me your link. I just turned 46 when I found out I was pregnant. We have been thinking of giving our 23 month old a sibling for a few months now. At my DS last check up, I asked the doctor about getting pregnant. She said I;d better get to it if it was going to happen and advised I should stop BF. I got pregnant as soon as I could over the Christmas/New Year holidays. I found out a whole week before AF was due that I was pregnant.<br />I wish you all the best with your upcoming labour and delivery and thank you for sharing your story here.<br />newone, I pray you get pregnant soon and your daughter will be a big sister soon. My story is here http://46andpregnant-kim.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Kim that's great. Fabulous you could get pregnant within 2 years. As for me, I'm grateful my son is 5 b/c he is a super big brother and surprisingly useful for which we are grateful when we can't open the darn door ourselves...(carseat, groceries, sling and the diaper bag etc...)<br /><br />I just read all your entries and it took me back. We decided against CVS and Amnio and all that stuff and I wonder whether incidence of girls is higher w/riper moms. September 26 -- you get to be pregnant in the summer which I found a GREAT time to be pregnant because you can be outside and running around. The best part is not having to wear socks in the 9th month. Putting on socks was the most timeconsuming thing I did in 3rd Tri.isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-88872465999528479712009-05-04T22:38:00.000-07:002009-05-04T22:49:14.104-07:00between the edges<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTorHJOyCdjwQCpW19X85TlyN4SHVYgAmeESjkhnbY25W7kBK35YzvYz-UVUkjHDlMl96H-OmvP95SV2vKC-JNt6FUyTeRxE6eOn7pos7hRXehJv7tSsj2IneYf8shyzvqSJd-cXrjsY/s1600-h/0505+Jet+sleeps.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTorHJOyCdjwQCpW19X85TlyN4SHVYgAmeESjkhnbY25W7kBK35YzvYz-UVUkjHDlMl96H-OmvP95SV2vKC-JNt6FUyTeRxE6eOn7pos7hRXehJv7tSsj2IneYf8shyzvqSJd-cXrjsY/s320/0505+Jet+sleeps.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332212833121642818" /></a><br />V. is 5 weeks old which officially means I have not slept more than 6 hours for 5 weeks (the last week of pregnancy, I know I slept two nites past six hours). So I'm mostly dazed and dropping things (not her, her I clutch) and concentrating when I drive and really making the most of my daily cup of coffee. And remembering the things I loved to eat during my last 2 months of pregnancy, none of which exert a pull anymore. <br /><br />I loved:<br />Starbucks mints<br />fresh fallen snow<br />Finnish crisp bread<br />Prosciutto<br />sharp cheddar<br />sausage<br />potato chips<br /><br /> Now it's all chocolate icecream...isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235856884680773900.post-74745204669943460062009-04-23T19:54:00.000-07:002009-04-23T19:55:45.545-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGsUCqsWLxDFpKv5DAaHR5scHyQwq_eqMfwrTN8gf-L4XtquLiBEXB4t_z6yy0Wq6L0DD-t5gtDARlDO84RyU4yskFdSZEhOKgxmvGaB9keMHS-tSQysP0fZNPNYjhetry-iXq7wlCoHs/s1600-h/032909+bath.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGsUCqsWLxDFpKv5DAaHR5scHyQwq_eqMfwrTN8gf-L4XtquLiBEXB4t_z6yy0Wq6L0DD-t5gtDARlDO84RyU4yskFdSZEhOKgxmvGaB9keMHS-tSQysP0fZNPNYjhetry-iXq7wlCoHs/s320/032909+bath.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328086163224282322" /></a><br />day one....liking her bath....isabelleSophroniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179101628880883873noreply@blogger.com0