Time to catch up

Time. Ha.

Time is like sleep; you will have neither once you have children. When I was pregnant everyone kept telling me that children (and babies in particular) are a lot of work, and I thought I understood what they meant. But in reality, I don't think anyone can fully understand until their little one is born.

So on that note... and in case any of the few people who read this don't already know...


Griffin Anthony Lindley was born at 12:58pm on 1/28/10, weighing 7 lbs 1 oz. He never managed to flip from his breach position even after I endured painful daily acupuncture (I thought acupuncture wasn't supposed to hurt...) and numerous exercises that would supposedly help him flip, so he was delivered via c-section. After taking hypnobirthing classes to prepare for what I hoped would be a drug-free natural delivery I expected to be depressed about my c-section. Turns out I was so busy and overwhelmed by inexperience that I didn't have time to dwell on the nature of my little boy's arrival, and to this day I find I'm sort of ambivalent about it. I guess that's a good thing.

So to compound how much work I underestimated a new born would be, Griffin was labeled as having colic. Ah, colic. That catch all for fussy babies who have nothing "medically" wrong with them, but who are obviously in a great deal of pain for which there's NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! Arg! As if being a new parent isn't hard enough! Poor Griffin would scream almost all day every day and sometimes the only thing that would help him feel better was to be held and cuddled. Needless to say holding a baby all the time prohibits you from doing many other tasks and for me that included blogging.

But now things are looking up! Griffin is growing out of colic and is becoming a very pleasant little child. There are many times each day where he plays on his own in his baby gym & his bouncer - allowing me the use of both my hands at the same time! Something necessary for typing (or at least efficient typing), so here's hoping that I'll continue to have more time and can start blogging again!

Time will tell.