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I just asked too!

If you were there in the pub, that was early. Imagine the ruin that followed :-(

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

She's never going to be googleable when you've named your daughter after a UNIT OF POWER!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm not sure why I thought that a new baby might keep you off the internet...)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

deindexed and a bit of googleproofing, is that enough?

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers Teeny!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yars, cheers.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hip hip hooray on her magical birthing day to the lovely little Onimo papoose!

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome - congratulations!!! I love new babies... especially sleeping ones. Lovely photo.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

Awwww, I've come over all clucky now. She's beautiful.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray Megan!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 15 September 2006 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

(Lovely name, by the way.)

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 15 September 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

oh man, i love the picture of you too! your baby looks so cuuuuuute!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm off to bed to sleep like a baby

This is something off a contradiction for the first couple of weeks! Big congratumalations to you and yours.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Contradiction for the first couple of years! And then they aren't babies anymore.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Set your hard disk recording devices!:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1872628,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=11

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Pam's 32-week scan yesterday. Foetus very small - tests, injections and scans three or four times a week from now on; could have to be delivered early by C-section. Or could be nothing to be worried about. Fingers crossed...

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

I visited Onimobaby yesterday. So ickle and tiny! I have never actually been in close proximity to a baby that young before, so getting to actually hold a six-day-old baby = instant fear. Until I got to hold her, then it was all "aww, she's lovely" and most importantly (for me), another addition to the list of small children who don't burst into tears at the sight of me (probably more importantly for parents, I didn't drop her or hurt her or do anything clumsy and stupid like I usually do).

Still doesn't make me want one of my own, like.

Good luck to Pam! Routine scans and tests and attention is a Good Thing - means any potential complications can be spotted and hence dealt with right away.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear, upping the stress is the last thing you want :(
Fingers crossed indeed, and at least they are keeping a close eye.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Well, they're a bit more than routine (this is not what generally happens in the last 8 weeks of pregnancy in the UK, overseas readers). The steroid injections to promote lung development (in case the baby needs to make an appearance before 36 weeks) sound particularly unpleasant. Not how we envisioned October...

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for ailsa getting the seal of approval from Onimobaby! I still freak out when I hold a baby - hopefully I will get over this in three months' time or we'll be in trouble.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Michael. :-( I had wanted to ask how things are going. How is the wife holding up?

I still freak out when I hold a baby - hopefully I will get over this in three months' time or we'll be in trouble.

I had never held a newborn (as I don't want to take the responsibility of another one's child) but I assure you, you get used to it pretty quickly. Actually I remember I only freaked out when I had to take her to the bathrooom: my pelvis bone was really painful and I couldn't walk steadily.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Pam's back from his first hospital visit of many; CTG results were encouraging. Doppler scans next week will indicate how the foetal bloodflow is holding up.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Pam's back from his first hospital visit

They gave Pam a sex change? That's brutal!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

hence the cesearian. ;-) (sorry cldnt resist)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Crossing fingers for P&M x

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

(sorry...his/hers...stressful day...)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

all the best to you!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Spanking, classic or dud? I was spanked growing up as a last resort only, make 3-4 times a year. It was more of a psychological deterrent than a physical one - not that it wasn't painful but it wasn't extreme (never left a mark). i think the worst part of the punishment was when my dad said "go to your room and wait for me." you sit there with the knowledge that there's a 90% chance that you're going to get thwacked, but you don't know when. always administered by dad, he always hugged us later and said i love you.

all in all, i don't know how i feel about this. in the short run, it modified my behavior, but in the long run, maybe it didn't help me learn self-motivating behavior? i was a perfectly well-behaved child, but the instant i got out on my own it's like i was craving hedonistic chaos. i mean, if the only reason you act well is because of a physicall threat, once that threat is gone do you go totally wild (like my irresponsible burnout adulthood)?

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Keep them in a cage/on a leash. It's the only way.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Kids on leashes, classic or dud?

xpost, MINDMELD!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I just found this blog, good reading: http://moxie.blogs.com/askmoxie/

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 22 September 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

seriously people, could someone have not warned how horrible pregnancy is?? week 17 and im still puking. sad face emoticon sad face emoticon sad face emoticon

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

! !!!!!! !!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

I mean I know you've been broody but did I miss an announcement??

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

BROODY!?! haha actually ive been hissyfitting all over the shop this week just not on here. actually, i announced it then took it back for my own amusement. maybe the pukes are KARMA.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!1!!1!!

Congrats to you and the PP man! Sorry about the barfing, though. My sister in law was sick as a dog the whole 40 weeks, no letup.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

aww.. thanks RH. if this pregnancy bit didnt suck so much i might have considered making my own southern army. my sister was sick the whole 40 weeks too. it had better not be genetic.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations on the one thing and commiseration for t'other, katharine.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

dank und dank, mw.

ok, im going to go hang out in the bathroom for a while.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh poor thing. :-( I hope you gain your non-pukey state back soon! :-) Congratulations and jubilations in re to the pregnancy. But that goes without saying!

I just found this blog, good reading: http://moxie.blogs.com/askmo

Good reading, yes,but I'm hesitant to take her advice because, well, she's not an expert. I dislike the Q&A format because it still, despite her warnings, gives the impression she's an expert. So I'll opt out of it.

As much as I'm a proponent of breastfeeding, I'm now much less an advocate of it. I don't mean I'm against it, QUITE the contrary, but I respect mothers who do not wish to breastfeed. I mean, they have a choice and if they don't feel like breastfeeding it doesn't make them a bad parent, y'know.

Spanking, classic or dud?

Completely UTTERLY dud. But, ah, in some cases I can understand you sort of lose your mind, so to speak, and slap the child. My cousin was an extremely difficult child. I never spanked him, but I could understand that his parents did occasionally. Still, it's completely utterly dud. I hope I will never lay a hand on my child EVER. Really. I just find it so wrong. I've seen child abuse and what it can do. And yes I realize that there's *lighter* forms of physical punishment.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/80/249629990_32987a7796.jpg?v=0

me and the beb on the cellphone cam.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations Sunny and I'm sorry you are so ill. That was how my first pregnancy was; the second one I was only sick during the mornings and then I got hungry. Pregnancy is blessedly finite, although it doesn't seem that way when you're going through it.

Spanking... I'm going to say dud, although it's tricky. We always swore we would never resort to it and the fact is that we have, on occasion. But there are so many better things to try...

(xpost)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

(Pam is definitely not going to carry to full term - he/she will be making an appearance in the next 2-3 weeks. We'll know more later in the week...)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

oh goodness best wishes and lots of love to you all!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh blimey M, good luck with your early arrival. Hope you can both stay relatively calm!

And haha sunny, I somehow KNEW you were actually preggers and not just showing a healthy interest :)
Hope your sickness stops soon.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, we were onto you, sunny. Good news, Mike.

I just put in five loads of laundry stained with various effluences emitted by the sick pewees this weekend. But the one who got sick on Saturday is better now, and the one who got sick last night seems in relatively good shape.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Teeny's !!!!!!!!!! repeated.

Super congrats Sunny!

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Best wishes Michael, hope everything goes well!

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Sunny, your future home of Wisconsin is rooting for you and Mr. P. Remember: vomit ain't no thing but a chicken wing. (Well, sometimes.) And yeah, go Michael go, much love and strength.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

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