Outings (some tmi)

Thank you all for the great advice and comments, by the way. I'm looking for that cream, even though this rash cleared up in a day.

(Here is the TMI paragraph) And I am a little more reassured about the bleeding, even if I still think the ob was not listening to me properly. The bleeding is wearing me down a bit, because it's heavy and bright red. It may be that it hits low level triggers. And my own ob is a good listener, so I'm spoilt. :)

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Friday my mum and I took Noah on his first trip along the yuppie madness that is Queen Street in the Beaches. It was lunchtime on a sunny, albeit it fall-cool, day and so all the strollers, most of them vastly more expensive than my eBay scored Evenflo travel system, were out in full force. Seriously, the two essential accessories in the Beaches are a baby and a dog.

I say that with a fondness for it though because I grew up in the area, taught in the area, and I cannot go there without running into people I know. It's my hometown, as a subset of Toronto. Sure enough we ran into two people I know and an additional one my mum knew.

(Sometimes I wish we had been able to agree on/afford a house in the Beaches. But in our price range we were really squished to the bottom of the market and Carl needed space and I needed not to live in a disaster of a fixer-upper, so that's why we're off in technically-Toronto-really-suburbia land.)

It went really well: we timed it between feeds and he was mostly asleep. I poked in some baby stores, but mostly I people-watched. The only thing I found that was remotely appealing was the Cuddle Wrap, which was pretty much like a combination of these: http://www.cottoncradles.com/stretchywraps.htm. Clearly I am obsessed with carriers. I refrained from buying one, because we have the sling and the Snugli, but I may yet change my mind.

I keep wondering when I'm going to want to shop for clothes for Noah. We don't need any at all: people have been so overwhelmingly generous with gifts and hand me downs that we've been well stocked. But I still find it strange for me that I haven't wanted to add my own stamp. I wonder if it's still burnout from the way I shopped like mad for Emily. But it may just be lack of energy and opportunity. Well that and I want to get clothes I love when he's a size that will last for a bit.

There has been one exception: one of Noah's honourary aunts sent me a link to a baby costume website I am too lazy to copy and paste (except by request) and if they weren't so expensive I would buy a bunch. Although my sister took care of that too: he has a pumpkin costume all set to go. Not my actual first choice but see, now I feel obligated (in a reasonably good way) that he wear that one, since it was given in love.

Always a good thing, that love.

Getting out and about did a lot for my mood and tunnel vision that was developing. Today we are probably heading over to M's (did I mention? No - the potluck was moved to next Tues 'cause of her kid having a fever) for a visit, which should be really nice too.

Shandra