I know I said in my last post that I was done… let’s just consider this a P.S. Christmas has come and gone now, Gretchen turning 6 months old on Christmas day. We open our presents on Christmas Eve, typically right after our Christmas Eve picnic. Since the picnic part was delayed until around 7 [...]
Archive for the ‘Pregnancy Journal’ Category
Thanksgiving has come and gone and with it comes the close of this journal. I’ve been writing here for just over a year now – my original plan was to just detail the pregnancy and delivery, but Gretchen was so cute I had to keep writing…plus there were plenty of pages left in the journal [...]
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I was the designated food shoveller tonight, feeding Gretchen a couple of baby pastes; carrots and pears (not combined – each in their own compartments). Tonight was the first round of pears. Gretchen only required two samplings before she decided she enthusiastically likes them. She has a voracious aptitude for attacking the spoon, looking very [...]
When was my last entry – a week & a half ago? So what’s happened? Hmm… Gretchen has been given quite a bit of cereal. I tasted some of it one night – ICK! There was a total lack of flavor. Being king of the household, I mandated that flavor shall henceforth be added to [...]
Went to the doctor today for our 4-month check-up…and got four more shots. Gretchen hasn’t changed her mind any on how she feels about being repeatedly stuck with needles. She measured 24.5″ long (in the 50-75 percentile), 42 cm on her head circumference (75-90 percentile) and weighed in at 15.04 pounds (75-90 percentile). Doctor Morel [...]
EGAD!!! How is it possible for someone so small to produce so much waste?!? As I just found out, part of the teething process is a *slight* interruption in the child’s bowel movements…making them irregular, or more frequent, or runny to the point of diarrhea, or green and so foul-smelling industrial air-freshener can hardly cope! [...]
