Comments for theoddsock.com http://www.theoddsock.com fluff out of my head, shiney things on my desk... ooh and poing! Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:45:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Photogenic Baby by Dot http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/05/22/photogenic-baby/#comment-3513 Dot Thu, 22 May 2008 15:52:52 +0000 http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/05/22/photogenic-baby/#comment-3513 It's a lovely photo of the two of you and your expressions look wonderfully similar - the serious straight gaze and air of taking no shit. It would make a good album cover. It’s a lovely photo of the two of you and your expressions look wonderfully similar - the serious straight gaze and air of taking no shit. It would make a good album cover.

]]> Comment on Amelia Elizabeth Arrives by MakTheYak http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/04/14/amelia-elizabeth-arrives/#comment-3271 MakTheYak Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:37:01 +0000 http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/04/14/amelia-elizabeth-arrives/#comment-3271 Congrats you guys... she's adorable! I'll read your essay when I get back from work tonight :) Congrats you guys… she’s adorable! I’ll read your essay when I get back from work tonight :)

]]> Comment on Amelia Elizabeth Arrives part 2 by Dot http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/04/14/amelia-elizabeth-arrives-part-2/#comment-3270 Dot Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:54:41 +0000 http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/04/14/amelia-elizabeth-arrives-part-2/#comment-3270 You did amazingly well; congratulations again! And I hope your stitches heal nice and quickly. I got given lots of breastfeeding advice, including in the comments on our birth posts. I think the most useful things I was told were: (at the hospital) to try the rugby ball hold (baby under one arm, feeding from the breast at that side), which at first I found much easier than the cradle hold; and not to cup his head in my hand (the health visitor told me this), because his instinct was to push back against it - instead, one should support the base of the head just above the neck. I got revolting chapped nipples but they healed up fairly quickly with lansinoh and practice. I'm so thrilled for you and Jonathan (and your mum and dad!) and wish you the best of luck! You did amazingly well; congratulations again! And I hope your stitches heal nice and quickly.

I got given lots of breastfeeding advice, including in the comments on our birth posts. I think the most useful things I was told were: (at the hospital) to try the rugby ball hold (baby under one arm, feeding from the breast at that side), which at first I found much easier than the cradle hold; and not to cup his head in my hand (the health visitor told me this), because his instinct was to push back against it - instead, one should support the base of the head just above the neck. I got revolting chapped nipples but they healed up fairly quickly with lansinoh and practice.

I’m so thrilled for you and Jonathan (and your mum and dad!) and wish you the best of luck!

]]> Comment on Amelia Elizabeth Arrives by Dot http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/04/14/amelia-elizabeth-arrives/#comment-3269 Dot Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:39:00 +0000 http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/04/14/amelia-elizabeth-arrives/#comment-3269 Woah, what a head of hair! She looks like a real little character:-) Enormous congratulations - and welcome to the world, Amelia! Woah, what a head of hair! She looks like a real little character:-)

Enormous congratulations - and welcome to the world, Amelia!

]]> Comment on No posts… by Dot http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/04/09/no-posts/#comment-3267 Dot Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:47:06 +0000 http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/04/09/no-posts/#comment-3267 And I don't mean to imply you don't know that... And I don’t mean to imply you don’t know that…

]]> Comment on No posts… by Dot http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/04/09/no-posts/#comment-3266 Dot Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:45:45 +0000 http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/04/09/no-posts/#comment-3266 Much sympathy:-( A high proportion of first babies do go late (which is why I was so caught on the hop by Hugh), but I bet that doesn't make you feel any better. x Much sympathy:-( A high proportion of first babies do go late (which is why I was so caught on the hop by Hugh), but I bet that doesn’t make you feel any better.
x

]]> Comment on Back to “Work” by alice http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/03/24/back-to-work/#comment-3258 alice Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:38:51 +0000 http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/03/24/back-to-work/#comment-3258 Well I do hope it is - that and the feeling mildy ucky yesterday seem to suggest that things might happen in the next week or so - or at least so Helen claims ;-) Well I do hope it is - that and the feeling mildy ucky yesterday seem to suggest that things might happen in the next week or so - or at least so Helen claims ;-)

]]> Comment on Back to “Work” by Dot http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/03/24/back-to-work/#comment-3257 Dot Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:35:36 +0000 http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/03/24/back-to-work/#comment-3257 This is a suspicious surge of energy - I'd pack that bag pretty quickly if I were you:-) xx This is a suspicious surge of energy - I’d pack that bag pretty quickly if I were you:-)
xx

]]> Comment on I’m dreaming of a… White Easter?? by alice http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/03/23/im-dreaming-of-a-white-easter/#comment-3256 alice Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:52:37 +0000 http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/03/23/im-dreaming-of-a-white-easter/#comment-3256 As of this afternoon however the snow has all melted very neatly and we have blue skies and poofy clouds - in fact a perfect cloud spotting afternoon. You would never know that it had snowed at all.... As of this afternoon however the snow has all melted very neatly and we have blue skies and poofy clouds - in fact a perfect cloud spotting afternoon. You would never know that it had snowed at all….

]]> Comment on 4 weeks to go by alice http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/03/12/4-weeks-to-go/#comment-3249 alice Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:09:30 +0000 http://www.theoddsock.com/2008/03/12/4-weeks-to-go/#comment-3249 Hehe - the reaction from some people is the same as the one at work before I finished up - "Are you *sure* that there is only one in there!" She is head down, just hasn't quite engaged yet, her favourite activity is to try and see how far up she can stretch her feet under my right breast. We are hoping that she will be as long legged as the week 20 scan suggested, it would be nice for her not to be short like me. Now really I am hoping that she wants to turn up before week 40 ;-) We had our second ante-natal class yesterday afternoon and having seen a video of a water birth am even more certain that I want to give that a go. Hehe - the reaction from some people is the same as the one at work before I finished up - “Are you *sure* that there is only one in there!”

She is head down, just hasn’t quite engaged yet, her favourite activity is to try and see how far up she can stretch her feet under my right breast. We are hoping that she will be as long legged as the week 20 scan suggested, it would be nice for her not to be short like me.

Now really I am hoping that she wants to turn up before week 40 ;-) We had our second ante-natal class yesterday afternoon and having seen a video of a water birth am even more certain that I want to give that a go.

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