Today’s Asian small-clawed otters are jumping for joy in anticipation of a meal. Via the L.A. Times.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
Categories: Life
Soggy here, innit? 
In memoriam: Diana Rigg 
Getting out the ‘yes’ 
100 books by women in 2016 
Hoyden About Town 
Awww. Poor wee hungry cuties!
I got a rueful giggle from McSweeney’s Dispatches from a Public Librarian – kudos to all librarians everywhere and what they have to put up with every day!
Wow, what do they feed them on, springs and rubber?
Hope everyone’s week was better than last week.
My kids just shared Transformer Owl with me.
I’ve just moved back to my dad’s house, and there are huge plumes of black smoke coming from a few streets away. I think my old school might be on fire. I’m so glad it’s still the school holidays, so there won’t be any children there.
Also Saturday and evening here, so there would be no children in there anyway. Ahem.
I hope they’ve got that fire under control by now, Kirstente.
OK, had my shower and getting ready to head off to the Sydney Feminist Blogmeet, then off to a fancy birthday lunch later with the family.
For some reason I have a sudden, inexplicable urge to sing:
Happy birthday to you,
happy birthday to you,
happy birthday dear tigtooooooooog,
happy birthday to youuuuuuuuu!
Happy birthday, tigtog! I’m warbling along with The Amazing Kim. I hope you’ve had an excellent day.
Happy birthday tigtog!
I took my daughter to meet Joss Whedon this afternoon. She got to tell him about winning the school talent quest singing “Under Your Spell” from the Buffy musical episode and got a hug and a photo. I am officially the best mum ever, for now at least 😉
Thanks for the birthday wishes, all. I took the night off from the ‘puter last night because I had to read the latest adventures of Tiffany Aching. Sleep intervened, but I’ve only got 20 pages to go now, and then I’m probably going to read it all again, so don’t mind me buggering off to the reading corner for the rest of the morning, will you?
mimbles – of course meeting the Whedon makes you the best mum ever – great pic!
Tigtog: a late happy birthday, hope you gave yourself all the reading time you need.
Mimbles: can you be my mum?
A friend posted a link to this delightful piece, and I’m wondering if everyone already knows this guy, or have we found a new one?
Belated Happy Birthday TT.
Nice find Orlando’s friend, thanks for the link Orlando.
mimbles, serious Mum points! When she’s 92 she should still be cleaning her room without asking.
Meanwhile, hi, we’re still sick. Websites tell me that amoxcillin is not supposed to lessen my milk supply, but my baby who has been nursing hourly round the clock for two days now and crying for more disagrees. The upside is, I guess, when I come off it, that he will have driven my underlying supply up to the point where I will be able to assassinate at 100 paces by letdown alone.
@ Mary, I’m not a breastfeeding counsellor but it is possible that he may be having a growth spurt and be cluster feeding. Or he may just want the closeness because he is feeling unwell. Your milk supply is probably fine. There are lots of articles on cluster feeding around. Next time you have him weighed he will probably have either put on weight or grown 1cm. Apologies if you have already looked this up and discounted it.
Mindy, I don’t weigh him or measure him often enough to be sure if he’s having a growth spurt. But this is the second time in a month that I’ve been on amoxcillin, and for both of those times he’s started madly cluster feeding more than he ever did as a young baby (he’s now 7 months and feeding about 20 times in 24 hours) and my pumping volume when separated has dropped a reasonable amount.
I suppose I should try and find out what my local lactation support is. Our ABA group’s status is that the organiser is too busy to organise meetings or events, and I’ve found their advice line unhelpful, although that’s pure prejudice: I only called them once (and the only problem with their advice was too many time-consuming things to try and no advice on to prioritising them around actually feeding the baby).
I’m more annoyed than worried though (which is why I’m currently posting here rather than calling 1800 MUM 2 MUM): last time this happened I just put up with the cluster feeding and when my script ran out all the suckling had driven my underlying supply up to something quite astounding.
Apparently fenugreek can help with supply and also cold virus symptoms. Although you could be drowning in milk once the antibiotics are finished. Will your son take any solids to fill him up a bit?
He is very dubious about solids at this stage. But at some stage I assume there will be a lightbulb moment: perhaps this week is the week. We can but offer.
I’m sure my youngest thought that it was all a trick to keep her off the booby (and in some ways it was). I think in the end I gave up and fed her custard to get her started.
Non sequitur alert: I’ve finally gotten around to importing the old posts from the original tigtogblog. Those who are interested can go noodling around for the first 12 months from September 2005 in the monthly archives.
tigtog, yay I love a bit of completionism. Or at least potential completionism… I’m not sure I will actually go back and read all of Hoyden’s archives. But if I decide to, I know where they all are!