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DA BOOK
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Da Momma: Elizabeth, a journalist and college instructor. Formerly a latte-slinging, cell phone-talking Washington political junkie. Now a wild-dancing accidentally offensive woman with an irrational passion for flinging things on the floor and hanging things from ceilings. Wants you to think she's a grown-up, even though she calls her Dad the minute things get complicated.
Baby Eden: The Schmoopy. My sweet little Three, who shrank instead of grew. But she's always had Momma's back.
Mary: Devoted to hermit crabs and FREAKING OUT. Made me a mother.
Karenna: Peekaboo Streak. The Roodle, Doodley. Everybody knows about Roo. Passionate about folk music. Some werewolf tendencies. Always looking for new employees. Sophisticated vocabulary
Cute Husband, Esq: A former Marine, it was he who instilled in our daughters a love of getting up very early in the morning to go off and do things. Some days he's lucky he's still alive.
Da Posse: Three friends, six years, eight kids. Because no one can ever see her own stuff. So you gotta get some friends who see yours and tell you about it. And then promptly forget it because they are easily distracted by shiny objects. Oooo. Shiny. The moms aren't in this shot. Nor three of the kids. Just use your freaking imagination.
Moonbeam and Sunbeam: Yes, okay, somehow or other they got the same sorta names as our cats, Moonlight and Sunshine. That was a total accident. However, like the cats, they are super-cuddly, will get food for themselves if hungry, and they're part of the family. Like the rest of the family, they believe in the power of liquor, drugs, and hot glue. They have no fear of blood.
The Beasties: Two cats. And some cacti that refuse to die. This is a picture of a fish we killed a long time ago. Need to update that.
I didn’t know bili blankets existed! How cool! I wish they had them for my kids… so much easier and cozier than trying to find a sunny spot in the house to put your naked baby. I remember having to crank up the heat during those jaundice days. Congratulations. I have 3 children, and it is the best! “Three is the magic number. Yes it is. It’s the magic number…” (schoolhouse rock)
She is absolutely adorable…and I love that the soother is nearly as big as her head! Congrats again to the Damomma family…you are blessed!
My daughter used one and it worked really fast.
Eden is just gorgeous. Is it considered stalking that I click the link to your site at least 10 times a day to see if you have updated?
She is just so darling !
Oh, so cute.
I am due in 7 weeks, and like you it just hit me that I am going to have 3 children!! She is simply beautiful. I was wondering if the 3rd c was going to be any different from the other 2 but I guess not, which is a GOOD thing! Congratulations
I think they prescribe formula for jaundice just to get them to drink more, because the fluids flush out the bad stuff.
Ohhhh that photo reminds me of one I had of Finn in his Billy-blanket in the hospital that I had on my phone which either got broken or lost before I loaded it on the computer. I like the idea of being at home in your big bed for the b-blanket experience as apposed to hanging out on the ward with the bunch of crazies I happened to share my son’s first four days with. I lived in London and gave birth to both my kids at a great hospital (UCH). After giving birth you are put on a ward with 8 or 10 other women +babes.
On my first night a new father and mother locked themselves in the bathroom screaming that the father wasn’t going to leave (10pm dads had to go home until 8am?) The father bellowing at the midwife “Don’t you know who I am???” (my cousin googled him the next day, thinking he must have been a member of parliament or someone high up in the NHS to make such a fuss. Turns out he was a columnist for a London Tabloid newspaper…humpf).
My stay on the ward was greatly amusing for my mother who gave comedic play by play on the head sister or midwife whom she named Sergeant Major who would march up the middle between all our beds whipping open the curtains, giving advice asked for or not to a mother in a volumed voice that everyone knew to listen so she wouldn’t have to repeat it.
I was there for so long with Finn lounging in the Billy blanket, that I got to see many new stories unfold. I yearned for quiet and sleep but I also learned so much being surrounded by new mothers whether it be their first child or one woman who thought “why not” and had her fifth….named Ocean.
The purpose of this comment was to say “Wow, you got to take the Billi-blanket home, how cool. I had to stay in hospital for 5 days!” Instead I have used up a good portion of the internets reminicing….do I get charged for this?
One of my favorite pics is of my son w/the bili strip and my husband. It worked!
Sooo sweet! Congratulations! I’ve looked all over to see how much she weighed and how long she was. I can’t find it. Can someone fill me in?
Although, newborns do not need water, when my first had jaundice (in Paris, middle of the winter = no sunlight) I was told to give him plain water to flush out the jaundice. A pediatrician friend of mine called in a mild panic when she saw photos of the new baby with a baby bottle of water in the background, but immediately calmed down when I explained why. You might want to run it past your pediatrician too as an idea if Eden doesn’t like formula and the jaundice doesn’t clear up quickly.
Lovely baby – congratulations!!
When we were in the hospital, Peeper was under bili lights, but also on a bilipad (not sure if it was called that) – which looked much like a large pizza spatula with little blue glowing dots all over it.
When we held her, we wrapped a blanket around her and the pad, and I called her my little glow worm.
Is poor little Schmoopy getting her heels stuck daily to check her bilirubin?
I HATED that part. How much blood can it possibly require?
She does look like a glow worm! I wrap her in the strip, and then swaddle in a huge white piece of cotton linen. I call her “Kal-Lel.” Wrong color. And gender. But don’t judge me, it’s 2 a.m..
The heel sticks suck. I managed to keep her in the sling for the last two, and that helps. She sleeps next to me, and I just doze and check the pad constantly to make sure it’s on her. She dropped three points so I think it’s going well.
I’m so glad to hear that her bilirubin is dropping, she’s gaining weight and you’re getting some sleep!
Having recently done the newborn thing, I don’t know how one manages it with older kids to deal with, as well.
I can’t fathom it.
Also – YAY for PINKNESS!
Orange is a fine color for Oompa-Loompas, but not so much for babies.