Autumn

Hello, long time no post.

Liftoff Boy is doing brilliantly. He had his 4 month appointment last Wednesday and has now been through two rounds of immunizations. I'm amazed at the anti-vax stuff on the internet. The way some people approach studies that indicate no link between vaccinations and autism reminds me of the way some people keep insisting Barack Obama is secretly Muslim, or a terrorist, or a Black Panther or whatever. They look at the evidence and given that it disagrees with the fears they hold, they decide that the people providing the evidence are in on the conspiracy.

I didn't like seeing LB get four shots. He wasn't happy. But it was okay, it happened fast, and I want him to be protected from hepatitis and meningitis and a host of other illnesses that are, indeed, preventable through immunizations.

LB is still our giant baby. He weighed 17 pounds, 5 ounces (98th percentile) and was 27 inches long (100th percentile). His head is 97th percentile. So overall he's a big old guy.

I am still amazingly grateful and happy that his birth turned out to be a cesarean. Thank you, my little big guy, for refusing to turn upside down. The procedure itself went very well, was safe, and assured that LB and I both survived the process of getting him out. I'm in a snit right now because I occasionally search the internet for information about cesareans that is positive, and it's just not out there. I signed a petition stating my support for prophylactic cesarean deliveries as a legitimate birth choice after receiving an invitation, but there's so little out there. Mostly c-sections are made out to be a horrible, frightening attack on the body by evil doctors who want to endanger you and your baby to make money, but it's just the same old stuff all over again.

I agree that unnecessary surgery is often a bad idea. But anyone who seriously thinks that I should have endangered LB and myself by trying to get him out bottom-first with that big head of his stuck above the birth canal can jump in a lake. And even if he hd turned head-down, his birth would still have been dangerous. I'm glad we had the c/s, and I wish there were some pro-Cesarean group out there that I could join. The birth experience can be wonderful when it's fast, efficient and artificial and if I ever get pregnant again, it's what I'll be planning to do.

In other news, we've been meaning to start LB on solids soon (since he is gigantic) but other things intervened. We'll maybe try it this morning...

So sleepy...

I don't know the last time I wrote, but we're back in school now, and have even passed midterm week!

Liftoff Guy has a Tuesday/Thursday schedule and I've got a Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule, so we take turns with Liftoff Boy. LB is 16 weeks old today and is really getting the hang of this whole body thing. He can turn on one side, lift his head and shoulders up when he's on his stomach, and his head is totally steady when he sits. His eyes seems to be turning brown, and hair is starting to grow in more on his head. His eyebrows are getting darker. He smiles a LOT and laughs occasionally. Sometimes when he hears music he makes singing sounds. He can be exhausting, but he's such a sweet guy and so amazing.

But I have spent the whole day with him (he slept enough for me to be able to grade midterms, yay), and now I'm barely holding on. Zzzzzz....