Favorite mid-night escapade: After Maggie ate, sometime around 1:30, she and I got up to change her diaper and have a little kicking around time. I turned my back to throw away her wet diaper and when I turned back, she'd spit up a little bit. It had run down her cheek onto the shoulder of her pajamas, so I decided we should have new warm pjs. Nothing else to do, right? So I picked out a matching item and was taking off her top layer. When I went to bring it down from her head, I noticed that her under layer was wet -- apparently she peed all over herself while I was going through her drawers. Okay, no problem. We have fresh clothes right here. All we have to do is take off the new top layer and the old under layer and relayer with a new under and the new upper. Ta da. Alright. Time to burp after eating. Up we go and pat pat pat. "Achoo!" Bless you, Maggie. And then another sneeze and a burp at the same time. Oops! Too much going on at once! The combination of sneezing and burping made her gag which resulted in a bit of a vomit episode, all over my top layer and under layer, and her top layer and under layer. She's happy as a clam, by the way. No longer up to the top full, no air bubbles in the tummy, and more time turning around and sitting up and stretching arms and legs while we put on a new new under and upper layer. And eventually we went back to sleep, both of us in nice new pajamas.
Favorite accomplishment of the week: This is when you know you're really a parent. When the pattern of your offspring's poop becomes tantamount to your days. Maggie pooped on Monday evening. And then nothing Tuesday. Or Wednesday. Or Thursday. Not Friday either. We asked the pediatrician about this on Wednesday when we were there to check Maggie's weight (which is up to 8 lbs 12 oz, by the way -- a good amount of weight gain), when it had been almost 3 days. She said not to worry at all. She's known babies to go 5 days without a bowel movement. Just make sure when she does actually have a dirty diaper that the consistency is appropriate -- no rabbit pellets. So then when it got to be Saturday and there was no activity yet, we were sort of thinking "this is the limit." Five days and then we should be worried because the pediatrician used 5 days as the outer extreme. And now it'll have been 5 days. Well, we needn't have worried, because Saturday our wish came true. During the Hunt for the Red October, the Week of No Poop came to a glorious end with an appropriately consisted dirty diaper. Then another appropriately consisted dirty diaper at 1:00. So not only are we reassured that Maggie is healthy and normal, we are surely initiated into the ring of true parenthood. Woo hoo.
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