bobbay: good luck, hooker!
jm: nosy minds want to know
olga: Congratulations!!!!!!!!
stuart and ali: hang in there. we will buy you some vodka and oranges when you are done.
deb: he's here! I no longer felt like updating once they turned off the epidural and I felt like the bottom half of my body was being run over by a train
deb: sorry. Pictures soon to come.
Stockyard Queen: That's totally okay. We were just getting worried. Post when you feel better--and congratulations!
RT: Thank you so very much for the update, Deb! YAY!
RT: We want to see that baby, the parents and the grandparents!
deb: <-- Pictures Brian took
Stockyard Queen: Very cute!
deb: It appears to have been a success
Stockyard Queen: A nurse I know once said she had no interest in pushing something the size of a watermelon out through something the size of a watermelon seed.
deb: It was not fun. But this baby has made my brain soft.
deb: I still feel awful, but when i look at the baby, I feel like I don't regret it.
deb: I just wish I could sit normally. It's been almost two weeks.
olga: Max is adorable. And I love all the silly pictures to took of him.
alex liberatore: nice piece of writing. how are you feeling? things are terribly dull here w/o your presence.
deb: You're sweet. My grandmother adored you. She said you loved her jokes at the bris. She told me the story three times.
alex liberatore: Yer grandmom is a pistol, for sure. Max' behavior at the Federal courthouse was not out of line. It seems that I've witness a lot of people around there doing the same as him.
deb: hey, I'm going to try to stop by the office tomorrow (thurs) around 2-2:30ish. Hope you'll be there.
Stockyard Queen: I heard a report of another new mom who devoured a grilled cheese sandwich two hours after delivering her baby.
RT: Max has a lot to say.
AC-F: I realize there's a lot of time between your kid and my kids, but one thing that helped us cut back on the screaming time was the super yuppy baby wearing. I know. I felt lame at first. But it worked.
AC-F: We were given a couple of used Maya wraps, and our kids *honk*ing love them. Instant scream stoppers.
deb: We own about half a dozen front packs.
deb: I use the Moby or the Baby Nest. Brian likes the Bjorn. And yes, they go right to sleep. It's magic
deb: But how do you wear two?
AC-F: In theory you can wear two, but I don't. It's way too hard. We each wear one. Or sometimes I'll have one on my back and just hold the other in my arms in front. But getting two wraps on and two kids in them...nope.
alex liberatore: chin up, you, of course he's yours. would he let you torture him with all those photo ops if he weren't? and you don't look like a bag. please.
AC-F: Oh, Deb, I miss you! I have a feeling we could make each other feel a lot better about our roles. Regarding bathing, some kids prefer showers I'm told. We were about to try that with ours until they magically started liking baths.
AC-F: Although your feeding trick is pretty damn clever, I must say.
deb: until the poo. the poo was very traumatic.
Val: Oh, Deb, thanks for the much needed laughs. Our bath theory is "pee is okay, poop is not." It has ended many a bathtime...
AC-F: We tried the shower suggestion this week with much success. Our kids LOVE it. Granted, they're a year older than your guy, but still...
Stockyard Queen: Dear God, TU is still publishing Nimrod? It sucked when I was in grad school there and I doubt it's improved any.
deb: Wow. Thanks for the intell. I'm not sure if I feel better or worse knowing that a lousy journal rejected me.
Stockyard Queen: I think I'll slouch over to the UT website and check it out. When I was there, it was a hotbed of raging feminist fiction.
Stockyard Queen: Almost all of it neurotic and bad.
Stockyard Queen: Feminist fiction in the sense that the authors were clearly insane, but of course that's because men had been oppressing them their entire lives.
deb: Ha! I'm glad we've moved passed that. Now we're insane for other reasons.
Stockyard Queen: I don't know if we have. Joyce Carol Oates is still publishing, and as far as I'm concerned, she's certifiable.
Stockyard Queen: And she was definitely one who got her start during that period.