Wow. We just returned from Boston and I honestly don’t know where to begin. It was Stella’s first plane trip and travel experience. In fact, the ordeal adventure was loaded with firsts–for me and Stella Bella.
1.) Stella crawled–really crawled–for the first time.
This is big. As elated as I am that Stella triumphantly reached this big [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 30, 2009
Firsts and fiascos in Boston.
April 6, 2009
A drum roll seems inadequate
Today, we took a big step. It could save us a few hundred bucks a month while providing Stella with a better form of nourishment. OR IT COULD RUIN EVERYTHING.
You see, Stella’s formula is no longer covered by insurance. The really insane part of all this? Regence covered the formula when it was fed to [...]
April 6, 2009
FYI
Never tell a mother that her baby looks nothing like her. I don’t care if they look like they’re from different planets. Don’t. Say. It.
I carried Stella in my uterus for nine and a half months then pushed her out of my hoo-ha after 32 hours of agonizing labor. And then there were the feeding [...]
April 2, 2009
Wrong again. Then right.
There have been so many times during our seven months with Stella when we thought we had everything figured out, only to discover that we were completely wrong.
Back when she was refusing to eat and not gaining much weight, before her two months with the tube, we were, at one point, convinced that the issue [...]
