A Mindful Life

Claire is seven weeks old today. Wow. It feels as though it’s been a year.
Today is the end of my first work-week as Mom-In-Charge, and it’s gone much better than I expected. Part of this is because a friend has come over every day to hang out with Pixie and give me a chance [...]

So we went to the doctor today, and she agreed that the colic symptoms could also be infant reflux. She prescribed Zantac (generic form) and said if it is reflux, it may take 7-10 days to see results. We administered the first dose tonight (twice a day, we squirt .8 milliliters of grape-flavored medicine in [...]

Did babee taste like cheezburger? No?
A little Wednesday morning humor. We’re off to the pediatrician in a few minutes.

Claire has hiccuped a lot since birth. That’s not unusual in babies. She doesn’t spit up hardly at all.
But she does cry a lot. And lately (the past five days) she has begun to pull off the bottle after only an ounce, maybe two, screaming. She’s clearly hungry but then sucks some more and pulls [...]

Husband returns to work today. It’s just me and Claire until the evening.
I emailed some friends asking them to help out by visiting me a couple hours during the day in the next couple of weeks. It will give me company, or a break for a shower or something. Their response has been supportive. For [...]

This post has been updated with a photo of me and Claire (in profile) below. (I don’t post photos of Husband on the blog.)
I’ve got one new photo up of Hurricane Claire in addition to the one below. After several days of long crying bouts and obvious tummy pain, we help Claire catch sleep where [...]

I’ve been awake since 4 a.m. I don’t have the energy to write much about the kind of day we’ve had. It’s humbling to helplessly watch your child who cannot tell you what’s wrong as she screams, sobs, and suffers for hours, and the only recourse is to witness and provide companionship throughout. I cannot [...]

I want to tell you how the past couple of days have been, but I don’t know how much detail you want about my daughter’s poop.
Let’s just say that we’ve tried three new, different formulas. One of them seems to have helped. We had one good day, and then it all went to hell yesterday [...]

If you can’t see the video in the post, click this link.
[Via Emy. Thanks for pointing the way!]

One time I went to see Maezumi Roshi after a meditation session in which the tears streamed in rivulets down my cheeks.
“I’m sitting in a field of sadness,” I said to him. I was a tiny bit pleased by my poetic expression. I thought we might talk about it, rooting out the cause, and apply [...]