Riley is so frickin' huge. Not in an unhealthy way, in a omigod some one hardly looks a baby anymore. He will be a year next month. He walks, has a tooth and a four word vocabulary. (Momma, dadda, dog and something sort of like "hi", complete with a handwave ( Read more... )

"As you hold, rock, or nurse your baby, each of you gets a rush of dopamine, the main currency of pleasure in the brain. While you're both enjoying the high, your baby's feelings for you are taking root. Again, animal studies give us an important insight into human love. In 2004, Italian researchers reported that baby mice that couldn't sense ( Read more... )

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What do you guys think of breastfeeding in public? Not showy, look at me breastfeeding, which dosen't really exist anyway, since its always fufilling a need, but the baby is hungry, screaming, crying, there is no bathroom around, hes not on any formula, breastfeeding in public ( Read more... )

Who, on this thing, is also on Myspace?
My friend Alyson finally got me to sign up and I want more friends.
If your on it, tell me so I can add you and we can all be part of some big myspace/livejournal incestual Bermuda love triangle.

Riley was born Thursday night at 11:23 PM.
He is beautiful.

Everything they say about labor is true.
(But you do forget all the horror as soon as the little baby pops out his head)

I've already made him a million promises and I'm going to keep them all.


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Just a little update or possibly a prologue to the big hurrah ( Read more... )

Maybe its the hormones,
but I just created a dogster profile for Ernie:
http://www.dogster.com/pet_page.php?j=t&i=181362
He already has four friends and fourteen bones!

Soon I will spawn. My estimated due date is August 16th. From what people have been telling me, first children are usually late. We will see ( Read more... )