Corner toilet

Where did the owner of this house find a corner toilet?

Testing email to blog with a photo from Berkeley Bowl

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New Mommyhood Blog

Check out my new blog about the things I never could have imagined about pregnancy, post partum, breastfeeding and mommyhood at muchmorethanmorningsickness.blogspot.com.

Handmade Baby Crib Bumper

I couldn't find a crib bumper I liked that was less than $40 and was ready to settle for the Ikea crib bumper for $12.99. It's cheap and simple. We went all the way to the east bay, over the bridge to get one, but they were all out even though their computer system said that they still had it in stock.


Here are a couple on Amazon that I was also considering:

white breathable bumper for $20

and this white cotton bumper by carter's.

I ended up making a bumper for baby out of an Alexander Henry print from Jo-Ann's Fabrics. The print is called kleo and this woman on etsy is selling it and she has a lot of other pretty prints.

Baby Chokes While Breastfeeding :(

The first time that baby choked while breastfeeding, I thought I had drowned my baby. Her little cough was so sad. I immediately sat her up and started patting her back. She seemed to get over it quickly and wanted to go back to feeding. I asked our pediatrician about how to prevent the choking. He said that she probably choked during a milk let down. At the time, I didn't know when my let down was occuring. Now I can tell. I feel a tingling near the tip of my nipple when I let down. The doctor said that I could press my finger just above baby's latch to slow down the milk. Seemed to help. Now she delatches by herself during a let down. The first time she did, the milk sprayed all over her face. :)

Bottle Drying Racks

  I love the grass bottle drying rack by Boon, Inc.

When my husband was home on paternity leave, he fed baby at the 6 am feed so that I could sleep after the 3 am feed until the 9 am feed so we only needed a small bottle drying rack to dry one bottle and my pump bottles and valves. At first, we got this small bottle drying rack at Babies R Us for $3.99.

It was ok, but when you're tired, you don't really want to bother with arranging the bottles and valves carefully on each little stem. I guess the larger bottle drying rack version 

would have worked better with the basket in the middle in which to throw the little pump pieces, but my cousin got us the grass bottle drying rack before we had a chance to try the larger one and I'm happy she did. Not only is it super cute, I can just throw bottle supplies anywhere on the rack which is convenient in the middle of the night :)

Mother's thumb

After I had baby (and a little toward the end of pregnancy), my hands were swollen in the morning and it hurt to use my thumb to do simple things like pull up my pants. I thought the thumb pain was just due to the swelling and would go away when the swelling went away. I tried icing both wrists with an ice cube wrapped in an Ace Bandage at the base of the thumb several times a day which helped alleviate, but not take away the pain. Fifteen weeks after baby was born, I was back to pre baby weight, with no swelling, but my thumbs still hurt. At my post partum appointment, my OB/GYN recommended an orthopedic surgeon that I could see if the pain persisted. I finally made an appointment and went yesterday. He told me that I had de Quervain’s tendinitis, a common ailment for new moms which causes the tunnels holding the thumb tendons to swell and cause pain. My tunnels were so swollen that I had bumps at the base of both thumbs. He also said that eighty percent of mom's who suffer from this had girls.

The treatment was just a couple of cortisone shots to the tunnel through which the thumb tendons run. The shots were super painful even after a topical anesthetic and a little freezing of the area. The surgeon stuck the needle into the tunnel and squirted. Instantly, the swollen bumps at the base of both my thumbs went away. The pain did not go away instantly, but today is the first day that I have had no pain in my thumbs! They are a little sore, but I can definitely tell that they are on the way to recovery! I don't know why I didn't do this earlier. Dr said that chances of pain coming back were slim and is very unlikely in subsequent pregnancies. I'll write again in six months to see if the cortisone shots stuck.

Back to Blogging

I'm back to blogging after some time off to have a baby. Here we are in the Peruvian baby sling that I bought at the market in Aguas Calientes, Peru. It's actually just a square piece of cloth, but the Peruvian women use it to carry everything from babies to groceries to goods for sale.

PB&J My first plushie special order

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