Just Say No! More Drugs

[ailbhe]

Today, Linnea is 7 weeks old and I am no longer on any medication. I can get through the day without pain relief, and I finished my second course of antibiotics Thursday at 8 am. Also on Thursday I had my six-week checkup with the consultant, and she's going to refer me to a gynaecologist for repairs, which is great - it's a relief to know that a little restitching will bring me back to normal. And it's nice to know that my "funny feeling" that something wasn't right was justified, rather than paranoia or underestimating the usual effects of childbirth on the unfortunate female physiology. And physiognamy - I'm spotty again.

Linnea is ginormous and doesn't look to be slowing down any time soon. I'm going to have to buy her the next size up of nappy wraps soon - that's not Newborn, or Small, but Medium. That's ridiculous, in a 7-week-old.

The main pedestrian street in Reading today was bouncing along to the Huckleberries; I'm sure I've heard of them and I don't know why or when or where. Also, I discovered that the group "Juniper" whom I heard perform "Eskimo Friend" and "Weatherman" sometime before I left Dublin later split and Damien Rice is actually real and people have heard of him. Now I want a recording of both those songs, espeically "Eskimo Friend" which I remember as strangely haunting.

Rob has been given his Father's Day gift, which he seems to like well enough. My wedding ring still doesn't fit; I can't decide whether I'm never ever goign to shrink back to my old size, and I should have it resized, or I should wait for the baby fat to slough off at some indeterminate point in the future. There is baby fat; I went from a size 8-10 to a 14. And it's especially unfortunate for my top half, because my silk summer dress no longer fits.

Oh - and we have proven that we are quite capable of going out for a pleasant dinner in a restaurant, though I have lost what little taste I had for red wine. Must experiment with Veuve Cliquot again; I suspect my taste for that is unkillable, even with hormones.

Comments

[anejo.livejournal.com]

The Huckleberries used to play in Oxford quite a lot - I've got one of their CDs and it's fantastic.

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[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

yay for no longer needing pain meds! and yay for happily growing linnea, *grin*.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Wait a while longer before deciding whether to resize your ring -- up to a year, maybe even a little more.

I'm glad things are going well for you. *big hugs*

[firecat]

Congrats on getting off pain meds!

I don't know about where you live, but in the US, I understand baby items are sized so that newborns commonly fit into sizes labeled as fitting older infants. The idea seems to be to make the parents think their baby is progressing faster than normal.

[ailbhe]

She has been in the 99-99.8th percentile, sizewise, since birth. The clothes are generally labelled by age and weight, with 0-3 months being 7-13lbs or thereabouts. "Small" in these particular nappy wraps ought to fit her until 4 or 5 months at least. It's almost never worthwhile for anyone to buy "newborn" size clothes, as they are outgrown within a month by all but the smallest babies. They get bought because 0-3 months looks a little large on a 7 or 8 lb baby.

Here, one gets a little booklet for the child's personal health record, which conveniently contains pages where one's own child's physical size development thingy is plotted on a graph - weight and head circumference are there, and possibly length, though my area doesn't measure length in infants. So the clothes people would only fool people who don't check their kids' medical records.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Superb news about your recovery. Don't even think about your size - it took nine months or thereabouts to go on, it'll take around that to come off!

[ai731.livejournal.com]

I suspect you've heard of The Huckleberries because I have two of their CDs (bought when they were playing in Reading town centre, yonks ago), and you probably heard them at mine at some point :)

Me Too

[mblaby.livejournal.com]

Following on from the two comments above.

I also own the entirety (read 'both') of the Huckleberries album collection. A) I like their music and B) They put on a very fun live show (I hope they had the remote controlled donation bucket when you saw them).

Anyhow... glad things are going well for you.

Mike
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