2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 10,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many [...]

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Back

Back above birth weight! Only took a month, but Lena weighed in at 9lbs 11oz this morning, a 7oz gain from last friday. Measured at 22.5 inches (they had her at 21 a week ago, they said that the  diffence between birth length and their measurement was the measuring method.) Lon tongue-tie, but did get [...]

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Update

Ah! An update after this weekend’s graduationcraziness. Went back to the office on Friday, and Lena had gained 2oz in 2 days. Yay! I had pumped a little bit already, so after  Wednesday’s crash, we started feeding her pumped stuff after each feeding. And then she startedgoing 3 hours between feeding instead of 2, and [...]

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Screamy update

So, our constantly-screaming, waking herself up screaming, screaming until she passes out, eating every 2 hours for at least an hour baby is screaming because she’s hungry. At our weigh-in today, she’d neither gained nor lost weight since last week. Went home with another weigh-in appointment, a bunch of formula samples, and a lot of [...]

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2 weeks home

So, now we’ve been home for 2 weeks, and we’re all still alive. L and I both had checkups this week, and how’d we do? Me: Lost 20 lbs! And have about the same amount to go to reach my pre-preggo weight. I was told to do less, though, since I’ve pulled on some of [...]

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Week

Just over a week after getting home, and how are we doing? Me: So, so, so relieved not to be pregnant anymore. I didn’t realize how much my body hurt, nor how swollen it had become, during pregnancy. I can move again! I feel so great that I’d love to go run! (But I won’t [...]

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Why Annalena?

Because it just worked. We’d been debating names, not agreeing on much. Sure, there were names we liked, but we couldn’t see calling our kid those names. Tentatively, we had picked Annaleise Caroline for a girl. It almost seemed right, but didn’t *quite* fit. TCB wasn’t 100% on board with the “Leeza” sounding part, knowing [...]

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