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Mar. 9th, 2007 | 05:18 pm
location: 15206
mood: good good
music: Arcade Fire - various songs playing in my head

Heather is one month (4 weeks) old today.  Her cuteness more than makes up for the lack of sleep she is causing us :)

On Tuesday afternoon I worked from home and took care of Heather while Amy went to an appointment.  It worked out pretty well, but at first she was not willing to play second fiddle to a notebook computer, so my attention was more on her at first than on work tasks :)

I ended up getting to be involved with one of several "firsts" for Heather: this was her first time being fed with a bottle.  She didn't like it much at first, but I think once she got a taste of the milk it wasn't too bad and she was happy after that.  However she continued to have an incredulous look about having her nourishment delivered in that manner :)

The other firsts were: first non-hospital person to hold her, and first non-hospital staff to change her diaper. :)

So one other interesting thing from Tuesday: I had found previously that listening to "classic rock" seemed to help when trying to get her to sleep.  So I had the classic rock music channel (cable) on and when AC/DC's "Hell's Bells" came on, she went to sleep.  It's not the customary lullaby, but it seemed to workin this case!

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Moose J. Finklestein

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from: [info]mizmoose
date: Mar. 11th, 2007 12:32 am (UTC)
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Another fairly recent parent I know was talking about how the kid would take her milk from a bottle from daddy, but from her the kid was like, "What, these things are right here, who are you trying to kid?"

Babies.

Mmmmm. so tasty.....

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Mingo, Blanda, Spargelkohl, etc.

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from: [info]spargelkohl
date: Mar. 12th, 2007 11:11 pm (UTC)
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Heh. We haven't run into that problem yet :)

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from: anonymous
date: Mar. 11th, 2007 04:49 am (UTC)
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Ahh... hells bells. So soothing.

Angus

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Mingo, Blanda, Spargelkohl, etc.

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from: [info]spargelkohl
date: Mar. 12th, 2007 11:12 pm (UTC)
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I had previously used the "classic rock" channel to help her get to sleep overnight, so I already knew she was predisposed to finding it somewhat relaxing. I just didn't know "Hell's Bells" would be one of the pivotal tracks :)

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from: anonymous
date: Mar. 14th, 2007 03:20 am (UTC)
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Heh,

For the first three months the only thing that would put Maggie to sleep was carrying her around the house tightly swaddled, singing to her while vigorously bouncing her up and down.

Angus

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