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Had the first mother's group meeting thingami today. It was cool. Out
of about 9 or so of us all but one used slings (though I was the only
one that was actually using mine, the rest had their babies in prams or
arms), all but three breastfed exclusively. I was the only one
exclusively using cloth nappies though, there was this lady who used
cloth nappies at home but disposables for outings.
While I was
there (the meeting was being held at the Leeming CHC) I noticed one of
the ladies weighing their baby on the available analogue weighing
machine. Another lady followed suit and I thought what the hell and
after the last lady had finished I dumped Tao into the basket on the top
of the weighing machine.
The needle climbed.
I blinked.
The first lady that had weighed her baby was standing behind me and confirmed what I wasn't quite believing.
"Wow six and a half kilos!"
What the hell is in my milk? :)
Josh
is officially sold on the fitted nappies, specially when the BubbaJ I
was using for that particular outing (considering he'd only just had the
nappy change I expected to be fine for a while, in the true nature of
babies Tao confounded me ;) successfully contained one of Tiny's major
poos. It ran all the way down to the elasticised legs and was thwarted.
Needless to say I was quite happy with it :)
We
need more fitted nappies. Seven of them I have decided. Seven should
serve as well, need maybe 1 or 2 a night and the few times we do go out
we are usually out for less than three nappy changes.
Though that
child has for some reason been producing a lot more poo than I think
his body size suggests that he should be capable of.
Speaking of fitted nappies, Tao's swim nappy should be arriving hopefully tomorrow but probably sometime next week.
I
think I broke the power point in the laundry (it's probably a bit
overloaded, it has chest freezer, washing machine, dryer and fish pond
pump attached to it). I wanted to hang the laundry out but the weather
looked a bit dodgy (ie guaranteed fien if I used the dcryer and
guaranteed rain if I hung them out on the line) so i stuffed everything
into the dryer. I thought I'd better wait for the dryer to finish
before I washed the nappy load, but I needed the nappy bucket for the
next load (it was quite full). I figured I could just leave them in the
washing machine while the dryer was going and start it up when the
dryer was finished.
I loaded up all the nappies as per usual,
went and washed the Napisan off my hands, came back, poured the
remaining water in the bucket down the laundry sink ... and must have
gone into autopilot from there. Which meant that I would have started
the cycle as I walked out. I don't remember doing it but then again I
tend not to remember stuff relegated to body memory.
Crap.
Hope it can be fixed relatively easily.