Last couple of weeks have been quite chaotic - despite you( A) coughing a bit the last Saturday, I insisted we take you to your mommy and me swimming class at the Y since you enjoy it so much. I did and then by Sunday you were running a fever. I dont know if there's a correlation there or not but still I felt guilty. Just like I felt guilty when I breast fed you for only 4 months and now attribute your falling ill every now and then to the fact that you were not exclusively breast fed even for those 4 months. I beat myself about it almost once a month. What should I say - I was a new mom, and you just wouldnt latch, despite lactation consultants and all of that. I got the hospital grade pump and the milk came in, and you drank it but still wouldnt latch. I didnt know about fenugreek and all those home remedies, still I did my best to pump, pump and pump and could exclusively bf for the first 6-7 weeks but then I had to go to work and pumping became harder and the milk was less. Anyways when I used to hear great BF/ nursing stories, esp in the Indian community, I always feel I dont know a mix of guilt, and sadness and a feeling of being a 'loser', Maybe I should have tried more, been more persistent - dont know.
Anyways, he is fine now, and so am I and we are gearing up for Thanksgiving. Thx to excessive grocery shopping at our local grocery store, I had spent 300+ $ in a month and so got a free holiday ham. I am going to try to cook this first time ever, so that will be an adventure. In other news, A has gotten quite the vocablary, still loves space and planets - infact shows off saying things like I am an astronaut and there's no gravity in space ( probably doesnt know what it means, but hey Steve on Blues Clues said it so he loves it).
He also chose to use the 'S'tupid word a few times at a restaurant in front of competi-parent friends of ours whose daughter is a day younger than our son, and oh so well behaved and so oh angelic, blah blah blah. Anyways after ignoring him a few times and having a discussion that this word is for big people he has dropped it. Well signing off for now.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
History and all kinds of awesome
Dormant for a while as life moves along.Today, I have only 3 words to say - Yes we can. I am so happy that Obama won - I am not a citizen but he was my choice, as was he the country's choice. Its historic and awesome, because my toddler who is a citizen grows up to be a part of this historical time.Since the last 2 months he has been going I like Obama more than McCain without even knowing what it means, so it was cute when I put on the TV today and he saw Obama on TV and said yeah, Obama( Ok so I taught him to say that today)
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