From the category archives:

Breastfeeding

The Dark Side of Breast-Feeding

February 7, 2010

Oh, man I have been out of it since 3, 4am last Thursday night.  I woke up freezing my tush off to what I thought was a broken heater, but what ended up being a bad case of Mastitis (a breastfeeding infection) accompanied by a 103 fever, chills, aches, shakes, headache & engorgement.
I had been very [...]

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Rhys-ently

February 3, 2010

Nothing worth having comes easily now does it?
The latest saga of weaning Rhys continues with much progress, but unfortunately a lot less sleep.
Three weeks ago, he was co-sleeping, eating 8-10 times a night & needing a pacifier every 10-20 minutes all night to fall back asleep.
Two weeks ago, we managed to cut him back to [...]

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Oh my, oh my, oh my

January 26, 2010

Well, let’s just say the rubber has hit the road.  And my car has hit the rubber, went swirling out of control and into a ditch.  If you saw my tweet last night: (”So. Discouraged.  Also, tired”) you may be wondering what on earth is going on with me.
So many things really…
I haven’t blogged in [...]

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Progress Report

January 14, 2010

Several progress reports…
Progress on Responding to Haiti:
Being someone who strongly empathizes with the suffering of others I have to monitor what I take in.  If I get too emotionally invested in horrible human atrocities it takes me out of the ball game. (Especially those in which I am completely powerless).  In some ways I’ve watched [...]

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The Delicate Balance

January 12, 2010

As I mentioned last week, I have now begun my 20 hrs. a week at home/20 hrs. a week working in my transition to part-time InterVarsity Staff.
So far, so good with all the myriad of snafu’s you can imagine.
Last week, when I had an all day meeting in Grand Rapids I remembered to bring the [...]

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