Not sick in bed any more

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Today we brought a flask of soup and a loaf of fresh bread to the friend who had a new baby two weeks ago. It was much appreciated. She really is in stunningly good shape. Two weeks postpartum I couldn't carry Linnea up or down stairs. This woman can take her baby shopping.

We also had a chat about uterine replicators and how they could solve The Abortion Debate. It made me wonder - what do female ski instructors or parachutists do, when they're pregnant? I'm sure that they're not supposed to keep skiing or jumping, at least, not in the first or third trimesters.

Later, Rob and I caught sight of part of a "documentary" made by the guy who ate nothing but McDonalds food for a week. He and his girlfriend were living on US minimum wage for a week. I was shocked by the amount of food she threw out when she was chopping vegetables. Huge amounts of perfectly good broccoli stalks! I don't think she had ever actually been hungry-poor before. And I think that people who are used to being poor might do better than people who aren't, under those circumstances, ie knowing it will all be over in a month and you get a decent standard of living back.

I think Linnea is reacting to the milk now too. She's unusually smelly and not eating properly.

We really need to break her natural rhythms. Sleeping from midnight to ten am isn't convenient for us. It's a lot more sleep than she was doing before, but we need it to start and end earlier. Any ideas?