a Fox update

[rushthatspeaks]

Fox is eight weeks old, or will be in about seven hours.

We are still pursuing co-lactation; for those of you who might be interested in trying it, a useful key phrase for both doctors and Google is "the Newman-Goldfarb protocol". A more detailed entry on this whole saga eventually.

Comments

[lydy]

You almost make me wish I hadn't skipped motherhood. Thank you for sharing them with us.

[nineweaving]

Fox is a joy! I love their little ecstasies of mobile-worship, kicking and babbling and smiling, in a bunting like a mermaid's tail. Their downy hair sticks straight up like a cockatoo's, and is a soft autumnal red.

As for songs, let's see: I've done "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" and "The William Tell Overture" and recitations from Shakespeare, and I'm thinking of trying out "Oh By Jingo."

Nine

[lydy]

My mother used to sing us the clean parts of "Barnacle Bill the Sailor." It was...short.

[nineweaving]

Heh.

Nine

[ethelmay]

My parents sang us a lot of drinking songs -- "Show Me the Way to Go Home," the Whiffenpoof song, and something about "Glorious, glorious, one keg of beer for the four of us, glory be to God that there are no more of us, for the four of us can drink it all alone." Not to mention bits of "If you have a daughter, bounce her on your knee," which I cannot see being a favorite these days despite catchiness. (Even then, my brother thought he ought to be bounced on the knee too, and I thought I ought to be allowed to climb the rigging too. I didn't hear the full context on "Never trust a sailor an inch above the knee" until some decades after.)

[mrissa]

I was raised by wild Baby Boomers, so the things I think of to sing to babies start with war protest songs. This may not be less upsetting than Leonard Cohen at the moment but also is probably not more so.

[juliansinger]

I had the entire Peter, Paul and Mary oevre, most especially the protest stuff, so right with you there.

[ethelmay]

Pretty sure I sang Tom Lehrer to mine.

[sartorias]

Fox sounds like a wonderful baby. Oh, the delight of seeing the subtle changes from day to day, the awarenesses and reactions, the strength building! And those ARE real smiles. We heard a lot of b.s. back in the day, including how babies had no emotions or ways of expressing them until (way late age), all total b.s.

[oracne]

Thanks for the update!