Happy 1st blogiversary to me!

Please pardon any typos and incoherence. I'm writing (tapping) on my Palm LifeDrive with a dozing baby on my chest, under the influence of extreme sleep deprivation.

This is going to be a lame-ass post. But at least I'm throwing somthing up to acknowledge this *ahem* momentous occasion. I'm not in the same leagues as the bloggers I read daily. And that's okay - as I've said before, I still regard this as a great forum for cheap therapy.

On this day, March 27, 2007:
- LC had a good day at school, was gentle with his sister, listened to us and went to bed early
- M is 24 days old (I should really stop counting in days now - it's lame). She is beautiful. She is still not latching -much. But she is making progress. And thanks to the wonders of cup-feeding, she has reached her birth weight! I am still disappointed to be struggling again with breastfeeding, but am gradually believing that she will latch and we will enjoy a long nursing relationship.
- On a related note, I still hate my pump. But I am so very pleased that my supply is better this time. No supplementation required here,baby!
- Despite a few bad days (um really bad), I just might escape PPD ths time. Got another appt with the shrink next week. (Cool - I've neve had a shrink before...)
- Mr. Chili is still awesome

And if I don't save and post this now, I won't get it up by midnight.

Trying mobile blogging

Wonderful Mr. Chili bought me a Palm LifeDrive for my birthday in Jan. I've had other Palm devices in the past - this one does so much more! lt has bluetooth and wireless, a web browser and allows me to access all my email and instant messenger. It's freaking awesome!! Especially since I no longer have my laptop (had to give it back when they laid me off, which was a month after I started my mat leave).

Going to save this, then try to post. ThenI must go wake up the baby - she's been sleeping way too long.

She's here!

Still trying to get our shit together here...(and I was resisting the forced conversion to the new Blogger.)

On Saturday, March 3rd at 6:50pm, M-------- K--- O------ was born at home. (Yeah, sorry, that's as close to her full name as you'll get.) She weighed 7lbs even. She had some problems breathing, but is doing fine now. Big brother LC has been very gentle with his new sister. (I won't talk about the rest of his behaviour. Let's say he's been challenging, shall we?)

She's 18 days old. She's very beautiful. The birth was a pretty amazing experience. The breastfeeding? Sucks - or rather doesn't. We are having very much the same problems that I had with LC. But we got through it with LC, and will do it with Miss M too.

So far am managing to keep PPD at bay, but it's too early to say I'm out of the woods yet. Still have lots of risk factors, yada, yada.

More later. Must go pump (f'n pump) and then cup feed, then hopefully a few hours sleep before we do it again...and again...and again.

Did I mention she's beautiful? Yeah.