placenta for hipsters

thanks to tom cruise for making placenta, and eating placenta, a topic on everybody's mind.

it even made hipster-bible vice magazine with lines like:The placenta preparation was one of the most ungodly rituals in which I have ever engaged...To the list of achievements on my résumé, I proudly added Cannibalism.
how can you resist reading it?

The thing that trips me out the most about eating one's placenta is all the chatter about it being a vegan food

and hey, if placenta posts have an effective way of raising readership according to GGC, so be it!

smart stroller spotting

I saw this stroller at the doctor's office on monday. It is the first intelligent tandem stroller i have ever seen that is not a behemoth or gracosaur. The bigger kid rides facing mom on a bench, while baby sits in front stroller or infant seat. it is called Joovy and it sells for under $200 and fits in the trunk of a small car. why is everyone not using these?

joovy tandem stroller

online shopping bargains

the first of a few shopping posts.

amazon.com has a killer fisher price deal right now.

spend $19.99 get a free toy up to $19.99

there is also a pretty good deal on seventh generation (diapers, wipes, paper towels, whatever)

spend $99 get a $30 gift certificate

preggo photo

37.5wks
Originally uploaded by lynanne.

draw a face on momma's belly and you've got an awesome pregnancy photo. wish i'd tthought of it!

night weaning part #2

Some of the (good and bad) advice i've gotten about the boy's terrible sleep habits:
-must be teething
-must need to start solids
-must have gas
-must be time to switch to formula
-must let him cry by himself
-must let him cry with the manny
-must stop co-sleeping
-must get him into his crib
-must actually be hungry

phew! everyone's got their $0.2, nobody has to deal with it like I do.

We decided to go with some gentle night weaning, where the manny is responsible for him between 12-6am and not to get me unless it is a crisis. He is getting tricked by the boy that he actually needs to eat. So he is bringing him into the guest room (where i am hiding out) which makes it so much worse because then the B can smell me and see me.

I am scared we are teaching him to cry to eat at night instead of eliminating feedings. i am scared that it is unfair for the manny to have this responsibility even though he knows he has to get up in the morning and go to work.

Last night was just a rough night. The good news is that the first two nights, he didn't do more than stir, snuggle with daddy and fall back asleeep.

night weaning

written in recent email to my doula:

ok. i admit. i have been really relaxed about putting the boy down to bed and naps. (want a breast? sure! pacifier? no problem!) and i have pretty much thought all the advice about getting those things out of his mouth as he's falling asleep was a bunch of malarkey. i mean, why not give him what he wants?

well, i think i'm paying the price now. the boy was up every 45 minutes ALL of last night. not up exactly, but crying and looking for boob and won't even accept the pacifier, only the breast. the past week or so hasn't been much better. last night was so bad that every time i got up i was cursing like a sailor, and the last hour i just straight refused to feed him and left boomer to console a hungry( hungry? how could he be he'd been gorging himself all night?) baby.

is this my doing? how do i undo it? do i just wait it out? does it have to do with starting solids? is this a clue that it's time to practice night weaning? (when boomer takes the boy, and lets him cry, but stays with him and consoles him minus the breast all night) what's the best (and kindest to mom and baby) thing to do?

looks like we're in for a rough spot with the whole night nursing thing.

moms gone bad

apparently an all out brawl broke outat a babyshower in massachusetts.

via daddytypes

babysitting: woooo hoooo!!

good news: i found a woman through my mommy and me class who babysits. she does it out of her own home, is very nice, and her home is neat and clean.

better news: she charges $5 an hour.

best news: she is down to arrange a barter for family portrats!!!!

i am so stoked.

oily and crying

"end times" by photographer Jill Greenberg is a series on oiled-up kids hysterically crying

to hear some of why this might not be a good thing, see the post on daddytypes

update: turns out she doesn't oil down her subjects. a great article on how greenberg achieves this effect can be found on her website

what i did wrong this week

what i did wrong this week:

-started the B on solids before six months (gasp!)

-let him eat in front of baby einstein (shock!)

-gave him rice cereal mixed with water instead of breast milk (double gasp!)

-let him suck on apple and orange slices (minor cardiac arrest!)

-gave him a taste of our smoothie before remembering that it had yogurt in it (major heart failure!)

and through all of it, he turned out okay, even if we did have a minor scare with constipation