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Because Madeleine was breech (despite my trying everything, from lying upside down to chiropractic help to acupuncture), I had a scheduled c-section.  As we talked over the procedure in my doctor’s office the day before, my husband Brian, who had been reading up on the procedure, asked my doctor what method she used to close the incision.  She paused, laughed, then said, “That depends.  Are you paid up?”

Because Madeleine was breech (despite my trying everything, from lying upside down to chiropractic help to acupuncture), I had a scheduled c-section.  As we talked over the procedure in my doctor’s office the day before, my husband Brian, who had been reading up on the procedure, asked my doctor what method she used to close the incision.  She paused, laughed, then said, “That depends.  Are you paid up?”

All right, I know I said I’d give myself three months of not worrying at all about what I look like, but it’s not working.  Isn’t all this stretchy tummy stuff supposed to just go, I don’t know, back in already???  What is all of it, anyway??  I asked my doctor at my 6-week checkup, and she just laughed at me, talking about loose skin and stretched muscles.  She's hiding something, I know it.

We took Madeleine for her 8-week visit a few days ago, and all the shots that go with it.  I can’t believe the pediatrician’s office doesn’t have a shot of whiskey on hand for such an occasion, but that’s another story.  I had the doctor look at this red patch on Maddie’s hiney, and she said, “Oh, that’s not too bad a case of diaper rash.”  Huh.  So that’s what it looks like!

Under the “Who Knew?” category –

After complaining about Madeleine’s all-day crying jags to my girlfriend Renee, I learned yet another fussy baby trick.  Seems that sometimes fussiness is just from sensory overload, and oddly enough white noise somehow helps press a “reset” button on baby.  Renee discovered the sound of the hairdryer or vacuum worked wonders with her son Eli, and since her husband’s a record producer with an in-home studio, he made a CD of the noise for them to play.  Next time Maddie started up and couldn’t stop, we went into a dark bathroom and ran the hairdryer.  It worked like a charm, and she even fell asleep.  The running faucet worked just as well, but I think I’ll use the CD rather than run up a high utilities bill!  Girlfriend knowledge strikes again.