tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75018996814018543852024-03-14T05:10:01.685-04:00Bionic MamasYou're Not Losing A Vagina, You're Gaining A SonBionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-6395444147123670032011-07-07T22:40:00.001-04:002011-07-07T22:40:34.902-04:00Part 5...is up at last.http://bionicmamas.com/2011/07/08/birth-story-part-five/Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-41358797935439668222011-06-16T21:38:00.002-04:002011-06-16T21:41:29.812-04:00If You Haven't Updated Your Readers to The Wordpress Address......then you are missing out. The Bean is dancing for you. http://bionicmamas.com/Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-2124672393988124802011-06-13T11:36:00.004-04:002011-06-15T07:54:15.226-04:00MOVING TO WORDPRESS!Hello everyone. This blog has moved to wordpress. You will be automatically redirected to the new location in about five seconds. [ETA: Turned off the redirect so the (*^$# old links work....]Thanks! Sorry to do this in the middle off a serial story . . .ETA: Don't forget to change your reader feeds, now! Don't want to miss the part where only one person on the medical team can tell my Sugar Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07944006168609786898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-4744480472897315122011-06-12T13:36:00.006-04:002011-06-12T20:08:11.823-04:00Birth Story, Part FourOh my, oh my! Looks like those other two babies either have beaten me (I'm guessing, here) or are poised to do so! Squeeee!Where were we? Ah, yes. Monday afternoon. We were on the subway. Of course. Where the hell else would we be, with me 4 cm dilated, completely effaced, having been contracting regularly for twelve hours or so? Surely not NEAR THE DAMN DOCTOR’S OFFICE WE HAD JUST LEFT, Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-71244589274358186572011-06-09T14:58:00.007-04:002011-06-09T16:22:44.328-04:00Birth Story, Part ThreeWell, it’s happened. One of those overdue babies has gone and gotten herself born! Congratulations, Ms. Debbie G! And your lovely wusband, too! Biggest congratulations of all to that lucky, lucky baby girl, who is going to grow up in a super-awesome family. In other news, while I was spacing out again, another due date I told myself I’d beat has gone and passed. I’d better get on this, eh?Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-71920950742972944242011-06-08T16:20:00.003-04:002011-06-08T18:53:21.282-04:00Birth Story, Part Two(For backstory, disclaimers, and jokes about the Crimean War, see Part One.)In a comment on the last post, Bunny asked whether my granny cart broke because of the hundred-ish pounds of groceries I had piled in it in my attempt to keep the cats from eating us alive. The answer is no. A superficial analysis would suggest that it broke because I was lazy the last time I fixed it (the linchpins on Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-56834232624263450392011-06-07T12:33:00.006-04:002011-06-12T13:55:01.032-04:00Birth Story, Part OneThis is hard to write. I still feel strange about parts of this story, and I can't seem to get it to coalesce into better writing. But I told myself I would get it done before the arrival of several specific babies, two of whom are now past their due dates. So here goes. The first of ...4, maybe? [Ed. -- who am I kidding? Maybe 8.] parts, which I'm going to post as soon as I have them Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-90394207241706533852011-06-01T12:17:00.007-04:002011-06-01T13:20:31.816-04:00Blogging for LGBT Families Day: A ThanksgivingThe Bean is three months old today. He is sweet and smiley and miraculous. There isn't a way to say he's the light of our lives that doesn't make me gag a bit, and yet it's true. He wiggles an eyebrow and I am transformed from the grumpy dragon of morning to a cooing fool; he makes Sugar smile even when she's barely slept, which let me tell you, is right up there with lead into gold. I could Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-37747378647764405212011-05-30T15:28:00.003-04:002011-05-30T17:23:19.225-04:00Memorial DayI still remember you, Roselle.(So no, cheerful husband of sweet friend, please don't give my son a camouflage hat. You mean well and think it would be cute, but I can't stand it.)Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-55586446619801821832011-05-29T16:28:00.005-04:002011-05-30T07:32:46.752-04:00O-Kay!Thanks to Pom, the new site seems to be working.Update your readers, y'all.http://bionicmamas.com/ETA: Dammit! Never mind. Working....Oh neverthefuckmind.Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-81393437611964098612011-05-28T12:55:00.002-04:002011-05-28T13:00:11.629-04:00Inside BaseballSorry for the relative lack of vagina news in this post, but:Any wordpress experts out there? I'm trying to move the blog, for the same reasons everyone does plus righteous indignation at the late blogger unpleasantness. I set up the new one (even shelled out for the fancy, no-.wordpress address) and I've run the importer multiple times over several days in different browsers, but all that everBionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-49149339051145996442011-05-18T12:04:00.015-04:002011-05-23T11:26:09.379-04:00Easing Back InHello, internets. Miss me?The radio silence you've been enjoying has been made possible by:a Bean who is getting smilier and more fun every daya Mama who is way less depressed now that she isn't in pain all the time*more weather worth walking around in [Ha! Except then it rained all week and I still didn't get this post done!]*only...I seem to have injured myself with only a little pumping, and Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-65138635910333300962011-04-29T13:38:00.003-04:002011-04-29T13:42:14.838-04:00Movie NightHey, y'all. Just a quickie to let you know that the Tribeca Film Festival is streaming a documentary about donor siblings for free today. You have to register, but there's no charge, and so far I'm finding it very interesting, well made, all that. If you catch it, let's compare notes, eh?http://www.tribecafilm.com/tribecaonline/streaming-room/donor_unknown-film32714.htmlThe trailer (which I Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-85778610946102124032011-04-26T13:19:00.015-04:002011-04-27T22:09:22.053-04:00Better Living Through Chemistry(It's taken me two days to write this, so the time references are all off. I know you don't care, but For The Record.)This morning, during the twenty minutes that the Bean deigned to sleep not on me (not that it isn't adorable, but pretty soon I'm going to form adhesions to the Boppy and the couch) I wrote my GP a thank you note.Now, I am southern and everything, but I am not that devoted to theBionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-64552121141036114842011-04-21T09:55:00.008-04:002011-04-27T19:08:00.208-04:00Quick QuestionsHello, internets. I owe you a post or ten -- or at least some pictures (I got one with a smile yesterday! A smile!) -- but as I am typing one-handed, marooned under a finally-sleeping Bean*, I must beg your continued patience. However. I am seeing my GP tomorrow -- one of the stories I owe you is "In Which I Realize I Must Break Up With Dr. Russian" -- and, being sick to death of being in Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-29556400203942972802011-04-01T17:05:00.009-04:002011-04-27T19:08:00.209-04:00One Month InOh, for fuck's sake. Blogger just ate a very long -- and, since it isn't here for you to read, let's assume terribly witty -- post, mostly about the myriad ways breast-feeding is driving me batty. Obviously, its deletion is a La Leche League plot.I'd recreate it, but between nursing, "soothing" (read: trying everything I can think of followed by trying not to panic), and repeating, it took me 6Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-18483278918188354362011-03-20T11:52:00.004-04:002011-03-20T11:55:52.414-04:00Happy Spring...from a boy who has returned to his birthweight and a Mama who is beginning to have color in her cheeks again.Now we are sprung from the pediatrician's until the Bean's two-month appointment, and we can concentrate on the more fun aspects of parenting, like the veritable poop fountain that erupted out of the bassinet yesterday. Bellagio's got nothin' on our place, I tell you what.Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-65906395360218256122011-03-15T10:00:00.002-04:002011-06-07T13:07:21.429-04:0040 Weeks: Pregnancy RoundupHey, can we pretend I posted this yesterday? When I started writing it? Thanks.The Bean is doing better, by the way. He'd gained 4 ounces -- FOUR OUNCES! -- on Monday, and the LC was great and not dippy and gave us more things to do. We'll see the ped and her again tomorrow.Happy Pi Day! I hope you're celebrating appropriately. Sugar has been doing so much work around here since the Bean Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-86367913268886045662011-03-11T15:29:00.006-05:002011-04-27T19:08:00.211-04:00Well, Sort OfBunny asked to hear more about how breastfeeding was going well, but sadly, I guess it only sort of is. From the perspective of my little world at home, it is going well. The Bean has gotten better at latching, my right nipple no longer feels (and looks) sandpapered, I have gotten well enough myself that I can nurse sitting up without passing out (the nurse at the hospital told me this was Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-9617144129446890432011-03-08T21:17:00.006-05:002011-03-08T22:40:05.747-05:00Early NotesHi folks. Thank you for all the well-wishing. It is very appreciated. We are, predictably, tired, overwhelmed, and very, very happy. You shall have a real post one of these days, but for now, a few notes and some pictures:Note: Epidurals are really, really wonderful things. I have altered my original position towards those who would discourage their use (not those who would not choose them, Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-44888909108833695102011-03-04T15:45:00.003-05:002011-03-04T16:11:24.231-05:00Living the DreamHi everyone. We are all home and everyone is healthy. You'll still have a wait a few days for the birth story, as Bionic is feeling pretty wiped out at the moment. I thought in the meantime I would share the odd things my dream brain has been coming up with. Apparently it doesn't like lactation consultants. Although I understand that having anxiety dreams about the new tiny person in the Sugar Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07944006168609786898noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-71446638328705906622011-03-01T18:22:00.002-05:002011-03-01T18:25:52.702-05:00The Bean is Born!Meet the bean!Baby went into labor yesterday afternoon and had Baby Boy Bean at 3:06 am this morning. More details to follow when we are back from the hospital . . .Sugar Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07944006168609786898noreply@blogger.com47tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-66024228433180742012011-02-28T08:46:00.004-05:002011-06-07T13:07:21.431-04:00ResolveUpdate: 1-minute contractions every 10 minutes from 4am on. They start in my back, then come around to belly and shoot down legs. Maybe a bit more frequent now. Talked to Dr. Skinny late last night, because I didn't understand that this blood business was just going to go on and on (intermittently). Frankly, she was kind of a bitch about it. Poop on her. (Actually, if she ends up at the Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-30292610231957041532011-02-27T11:30:00.002-05:002011-06-07T13:07:21.432-04:00This, On The Other Hand...probably IS bloody show. And boy, is it bloody. No need to give me your abruption stories; I've already talked to Dr. Skinny in a moderate panic today and she is not worried.Instead, how about your labor/hospital bag lists? It's starting to seem like we ought to pack one.To answer a few questions from the comments: H2 -- Yes, we did the shoot. A picture or two will make it here eventually.Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501899681401854385.post-24739646108949961242011-02-26T13:43:00.003-05:002011-06-07T13:07:21.434-04:00Lady Parts Pop QuizOkay, class; clear your desks.Q: You have arranged to cover or otherwise surround yourself in white fabric -- wearing white pants, a white dress, a white bathing suit, or, in my case, the many white draperies Sugar has thrown around our bedroom in preparation for one of those slightly cheesy pregnancy photo shoots. What happens next?˙ǝsɹnoɔ ɟo `ƃuıpǝǝlq ʇɹɐʇs noʎ :ɐ(Don't worry -- not very much.Bionic Baby Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14308646591208692676noreply@blogger.com9