i hauled d-man and eavan to the pediatrician this morning for d-man’s three-year checkup. he — as usual — is a total stud.
after the appointment, we picked steven up for lunch, but there were timing issues … eavan needed to eat not long after we got to the restaurant, so i stood and swayed in the disabled stall of the ladies room, holding her, as the two of us christened yet another non-home location with some good ol’ breastfeeding. (up to that point, we had pretty much stayed in the parking lot milieu … i think we have breastfed in the front seat of the prius in four or five different lots, but i digress.) while we were doing our thing in the big stall, a woman came in with a young child who needed to go “poopie.” the kid did his biz, and the woman cleaned him up in the stall next to us … then the two of them LEFT THE RESTROOM WITHOUT WASHING THEIR HANDS!!!
yuck!
the skin on didion’s hands is dry and mine is drier from the amount of hand washing that goes on around here. shame on that woman. this is why i touch next-to-nothing in public restrooms with my hands … and i cringe thinking about all the stuff non-handwashing people are touching around me.
gross!
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bonus adventure: turns out eavan enjoys herself a heaping bowl of old-fashioned colic every few days or so. tonight, she outdid herself … steven and i almost maxed out our resourcefulness when it came to tricks to soothe the child. it doesn’t help that she flat out R-E-F-U-S-E-S to take a pacifier. at one point tonight, steven was holding her in some strange contortionist position, bouncing and swaying around our bedroom, while i turned on the vacuum … and since i had the vacuum on, i really had no excuse not to use it for its non-baby purpose … but one clean bedroom floor later, eavan was still on fire … crying, screaming, squirming …
enter the superhero team of google and amazon … as i write this, we are halfway through the inaugural listening party of natural womb sounds. this may well be the best $0.89 we have or will ever spend. it took about 15 minutes before eavan gave up the colic kick. she is sleeping now … not 100% soundly, but we’ll take what we can get …
