Multi-tasky

[marydell]

We set up the laptop on the desk in Charlie's room so that we don't go crazy when we're feeding or comforting him--Mike and I are both hyper so it's good to have something to do other than look at the level of milk in the bottle and contemplate whether we should get him to eat faster by switch back to the (incredibly evil!*) fast-flow nipples that the Enfamil company so generously gives new parents leaving the hospital.   So I've been able to keep up with LJ pretty well while feeding or soothing Charlie or just sitting with him while he snoozes in his crib.**

Anyway, today I submitted two stories - one to Futurismic and one to Glimmer Train - while feeding my boy.  I have a sneaking suspicion I'm going to be MORE productive in the writing department now that I have this little guy, because it's so damn hard to be productive at anything else right now...I haven't had time to go downstairs to the library, where my real computer and all of my graphics tools are.  Not that I mind, of course.  But it's nice to get a little bit of creative stuff done, all the same.

*Slow-flow nipples teach a baby to coordinate sucking and swallowing--if the flow is too fast, they have trouble figuring it out and end up kind of swimming in milk.  Also, slow-flow is more like the flow from a breast, so they have an easier time going back and forth between breast and bottle with the slower flow--important for many babies, who are breast-feeding part time.  What else...the harder they have to suck to get food, the better the development of their mouth and jaw will be, which is critical for later speech.  The nipples from the Enfamil "welcome to parenthood" kit thingy have one regular hole and a second X-shaped hole, so the flow is much faster than any of the other newborn nipples we've tried.  Which means not only does it discourage proper mouth development, it also discourages the baby from ever going near a breast again.   Yeah, that's right, Enfamil is trying to make my son GAY!! When everyone knows that's MY job.

**Yeah, I said crib!  3 weeks old and I've got him sleeping in his crib, for about 3 hours at a clip, too!  This is partly because of having instituted a bedtime routine for him but mainly because he is the best baby ever, WAY better than any of the babies who are biologically related to me.  They are all hyperactive and fussy and hard to settle.  As am I, myself. Yay for adoption!

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

we can has moar pikshers?

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

I have a sneaking suspicion I'm going to be MORE productive in the writing department now that I have this little guy

I am in awe.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Well, I am decidedly less productive in every other arena (except maybe laundry. Good gods, the laundry!). My whole graphics sideline has to go right out the window for the next 5 years or so, by which time all of my skillz will be obsolete. But, eh, that was mainly about filling time when I had writer's block and no baby.

Also, Charlie is a ridiculously easy baby. Last night he slept from 10 to 1:30 and then from 2 to 5:30. So my brain isn't as mushy as it, by rights, should be.