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

[jedibl]

Yay! Thanks for the update!

We mostly sang They Might be Giants, Weird Al, and Jonathan Coulton songs to Five initially. Now, though, he very much likes "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" and "If you're happy and you know it." So those have become the defaults. Although "Still Alive" still creeps in pretty regularly.

Has Fox encountered a ceiling fan yet? Those are the BEST.

[eub]

Ceiling fans are amazing. Every baby is different, except ceiling fans are a universal.

I have some memories of the period before language comprehension when I could sing the Rational Baby's Drinking Song verse after verse to sublimate the frustration of trying to feed mine.

Thank you for the report! Fox is clearly an excellent baby.

[lnhammer]

Our older cat STILL has not got it through his head that TBD is not to be walked on at night.

[teenybuffalo]

Glad to hear that the child is doing well and proving easy to care for!

I am a voice in support of your singing whatever songs you know as lullabies. Murder ballads with non-child-appropriate content are fantastic for lulling children, and if they keep the adults entertained/laughing at the clash of ideas, all the better. My parents went right on singing "Maddy Groves" and "Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender" over baby me until I was well old enough to understand what was going on in them, and I don't think that did me any harm. (Unbiased observers may differ.) I did grow up a ballad obsessive, of course, and I think that helped.

For the record, I've been told that "Down by the Greenwood Sidey," aka "The Cruel Mother," works well to induce sleep in small children, but I haven't tested this on children old enough to understand that it's about infanticide.