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ly and i m sure intentionally held out on ma ma ma for as long as possible clearly annoyed that we weren t responding appropriately he started adding in actual words at just over 10 months old his words include up hi bye all done this that and now finally mama high pitched shrieking is a language unto itself and my sweet gentle baby has quickly mastered the art of the temper tantrum this may be a second child survival strategy powerball is half bingo s size but can already hold his own in a fight as he grows he s becoming more and more the little sibling he and bingo fight over the real estate over my lap favourite toys and the overwhelming desire to have whatever the other kid has there are also many moments of sweetness and adoring stares in both directions seeing them together makes me glad a hundred times over that we decided to have a second kid our attempts at baby sign were lackluster at best and he s only really picked up signs for all done more and food he has however turned pointing into an entire language patiently instructing his large servers parents and babysitter mainly about what he would like placed where by pointing in rapid succession mostly what he wants is food in his mouth he was tiny for the first six months of his life consistently in the third percentile for weight every time i left the house with him people would comment on his size and ask if he was a preemie this changed the second that we introduced solid food he s now dare i say it chubby he ll eat anything fruit vegetables spicy food random things he finds on the floor the one exception to this is sweet potato which he considers an insult to the good name of food as well as food his baby joys include opening and closing drawers putting things into other things making noise being sung to being held reading books pretending things are hats playing peek a boo bingo s toys and dangerous wonders like my keys honestly he likes most things his nickname is sweetness for a reason his baby sorrows include diaper changes which involve significant acrobatics on both our parts being separated from me sleeping having things taken from his possession and very specifically his right sock there have been joys and sorrows for me too in this year of parenting powerball it s been a hectic and exhausting year i ve been frustrated emotional and overwhelmed i frequently feel like i don t have enough time enough energy or enough hands but more than that so much more than that it s been a year of joy wonder and gratitude i am so happy to get to parent powerball to see him grow and change to have our family grow and change with him he is the perfect addition to our family and even in the chaos i am glad every day that he is here i m excited about what comes next i want him to take his first steps say more things and become more and more bingo s peer but i also want to pause this moment to take a moment to hold my baby while he s still a baby and appreciate exactly who he is right now my little one posted in big kid toddlerhood uncategorized tagged baby lgbt lgbtq parenting one year old 3 replies three posted on february 8 2017 by beginning from the start 2 this post is two months late but still three is here between negotiating desserts losing tickle fights comforting middle of the night woes supervising playground adventures worrying over preschool transitions bemoaning potty training making up stories giving hugs wiping sticky fingers quelling tantrums and dispensing band aids i somehow didn t see three coming but here it is continue reading posted in big kid toddlerhood tagged childhood lgbt families parenting three 2 replies a month and a bit posted on november 8 2016 by beginning from the start reply powerball is now just over a month old five weeks yesterday to be exact i m not entirely sure what else to say about that to write a one month developmental update seems like a disservice to him newborns don t actually do very much and to write a comparison of his first month versus bingo s feels like a disservice to her her first month was much much harder so what to say of the last month sea and i have both been at home with powerball while bingo continues to go to preschool childcare every day those eightish hours a day five days a week feel like luxury i remember when bingo was born having one newborn at home seemed so stressful not so now instead powerball naps and nurses as we wonder at just how easy it is to have a child who can t yet move independently or tell you in certain terms exactly what you re doing wrong our house has stayed moderately clean we haven t succumbed to scurvy i ve showered almost enough this feels like success that said i m still wearing the same clothes as i was yesterday having fallen asleep in them at 10pm last night napping and nursing are pretty much the only things powerball does and he does a great deal of both this isn t a complaint at all because in spending all of his time napping and nursing he leaves very little room for crying one of bingo s favourite activities of infancy aside from the fact that it s constant the nursing is going well i was shocked to discover that nursing didn t have to be horribly painful that my nipples didn t have to bleed that a baby doesn t always lose 15 of their body weight who knew on the theme of things that hurt less healing from a vaginal birth with second degree tearing has been a thousand times easier than healing from a c section following 36ish hours of labour i ve been able to move pretty easily from the start and would probably have been hiking across the city within a week if not for a stern lecture from my midwife that included the threat that not listening would result in me peeing every time i laughed by 50 so i waited for the all clear which came at my three week postpartum visit since then i ve taken powerball on a series of adventures that have included several restaurant trips a conference a birthday party and a protest i ve now been back on my bike sans baby for just over a week just for short rides between home and bingo s preschool i can t even tell you how happy i am about this probably connected to all of the above points while postpartum hormones are still no joke the crash that i was expecting hasn t happened the floods of tears have been minimal and i mostly feel like a more tired more rumpled version of myself which is a good thing because as of this monday i m officially back at work i have lots and thoughts and feelings about living in a country where i m entitled to a year of leave and making the choice to take a month of vacation instead thoughts and feelings that deserve their own post logistically i m hopeful i m mostly working from home i ll be nursing when i can and pumping when i can t sea is on leave until march i care about my job still tomorrow i ll be away from home powerball for the full day and my heart feels a little sore there are other challenges too bingo got the stomach flu when powerball was five days old and showering a vomit covered toddler while dealing badly with a frantic partner while nursing a hangry baby is an experience that will be seared into my memory until end days i m still learning how to deal with a baby with a penis and frequently get caught in a stream of pee our washing machine broke leaving us perpetually buried in a mountain of dirty clothes the time change was a disaster of epic proportions i have to remind bingo not to squeeze her brother s neck at least once a day still there s more good than bad bingo loves powerball more than i can describe she sings to him strokes him and whispers to him with a gentleness that i didn t think could fit into her wild body powerball doesn t seem to have yet noticed that he s the neglected second child sometimes i get to sleep for two or even three hours in a row our friends and family have shown up in full force with meals that lasted for weeks and today at five weeks and one day powerball really began to smile proper awake smiles it s been a good month posted in uncategorized leave a reply powerball a birth story posted on october 14 2016 by beginning from the start 6 right i owe you a birth story first the facts powerball was born at 9 36am on monday october 3rd in an unmedicated vbac he weighed 6 pounds 11 oz and was 20 5 inches he has dark hair and long toes he s perfect as i said the facts as for the story late in the week before powerball was born some time on thursday night i think i started having occasional cramps they were irregular and low in my pelvis it felt like powerball was trying to bust his way out but wasn t quite sure what to do i also wasn t quite sure what to do so took the sensible approach of ignoring what was going on on friday morning as i dried off after my shower most of my mucous plug came out i was interested in a bodies are fascinating kind of way but also had to get bingo to daycare and didn t have much time to over analyze besides a quick google search told me that labour could still be hours days or weeks away nothing i didn t already know so again i ignored what was going on my only nod to the possibility of powerball s birth was switching my work calendar to october over the weekend i had more cramps and lost more of my mucous plug the cramps were still irregular and mostly background noise i took bingo to the park went to an event downtown and spent time with friends sea and i finally packed a hospital bag but ignored the rest of our to do list there was still time we figured i went to bed on sunday night fully prepared to get up for work on monday morning instead i woke up at 2am it was mostly the cat s fault sea s cat and by default mine is an unfriendly animal demonstrating his disdain for us by staying in whatever room we re not in the exception to this is in the middle of the night when he is suddenly desperate for attention and spends hours walking across us and trying to eat our hair it was his aggressive purring that first woke me up then a cramp the cat continued to purr another cramp sea rolled over and tried to push him off the bed another cramp the cat batted at the back of my head maybe noticing i wasn t really asleep another cramp sea got up and kicked the cat out of the room another cramp sea went back to sleep but i lay awake wondering if maybe just maybe i shouldn t ignore what was happening another cramp contraction i opened the contraction timer app that i had downloaded onto my phone the week before i had felt ridiculous downloading it certain that there wouldn t be anything to time but now i was using it to monitor contractions that were already between 7 10 minutes apart it was 3am i left sea to sleep and went downstairs still convinced that if i just walked around for awhile and drank some water the contractions would stop instead they got closer together and stronger as i spent the next two hours silently walking my dark kitchen holding the counter through contractions by 5am i realized it was time to wake up sea sea was surprisingly coherent for somebody who had been woken up at 2am by a cat and at 5am by a contracting partner she asked if she should shower yes i said probably she asked if she should call our two on call friends one of them being bingo s babysitter the other being the doctor who we had asked to be there for the birth yes i said probably she asked if i should page our midwife yes i said probably so sea showered and i called the pager system used to wrangle our midwives between contractions now less than five minutes apart i gave my name and phone number and the person on the other end of the line promised that somebody would call me back within fifteen minutes fifteen minutes passed sea got out of the shower another fifteen minutes passed nobody called sea suggested we call again and i agreed but told her that she would have to do it i was going to throw up while i threw up in the toilet sea paged again nobody called i showered finding relief until the hot water ran out sea paged again nobody called i dressed our friends arrived and still nobody called it was after 7am it had been an hour and a half since we started trying to page a midwife and my contractions were now between 3 4 minutes apart just as we decided that we were going to the hospital anyways a deeply apologetic person called on behalf of the midwives clinic apparently the paging system wasn t working none of the midwives were answering but somebody would meet us at the hospital who sea asked they weren t sure but somebody the doctor drove us to the hospital a four minute ride that lasted two contractions and approximately four million hours as we pulled up to the hospital i announced that i had to be let out of the car immediately so that i could throw up which i did in the hospital s neatly pruned flowerbed after that glamorous arrival we made our way up to the family birthing centre standard labour and delivery unit on the seventh floor there was nobody at the reception desk but a nurse on her way by told us to go directly down the hallway to triage unfortunately triage seemed to be in the middle of a staff meeting we stood in the hallway waiting and between contractions i eavesdropped on a litany of nurses complaints the first was that a nurse norma was always late sauntering in for a 7 30 shift when it had already begun the second was something to do with the process of wiping beds the third was a demand by a particularly bossy nurse that nobody bother her that evening because she would be at the adele concert and not answering her phone the fourth and probably most pressing was that all of the beds were full and nobody else could go into labour which is when sea and i decided to let them know that bed or not we were there to have a baby the adele loving nurse unimpressed by our interruption told us in no uncertain terms that we couldn t have a baby until we had checked in at reception so we went back down the hallway a receptionist had materialized but told us that we couldn t check in until our midwife or at least a midwife had arrived but that there might be one already in triage so we went back down the hallway it occurred to me then that one of the many themes of powerball s birth was shaping up to be administrative failure thankfully a midwife had just arrived she was from the same clinic as our midwives though we had never met her before apparently the paging system had attempted to call any and every midwife and she was the one who had answered first our own secondary midwife skim milk was also on her way by the time i had changed into a hospital gown skim milk was there and ready to check my progress as the person in the next triage bed yelled allah allah allah skim milk announced that i was already 5cm and fully effaced she also told me that powerball was still high in my pelvis really high and that a c section might be necessary okay i said and in that moment i realized that it really was okay that months of processing 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