BABIES HEADBAND

Breast, Bottle, Bowl: The Best Fed Baby Book

An updated edition of Breast, Bottle, Bowl-the only book you'll ever need to ensure your child gets the best start in life-a healthy diet. This invaluable, commonsense guide takes all the anxiety and mystery out of feeding -babies and children by giving parents sound, practical advice in an easy-to-follow form. It shows how a good diet really can take care of itself, providing readers with a -basic understanding of nutrition and a few simple guidelines.
Includes information on successful breast feeding; weaning and bottle feeding; introducing solids; latest recommendations on infant feeding from the World Health Organization; reasonable expectations about quantities; coping with fussy eaters and food -refusal, and preventing obesity.
Authors Anne Hillis and Penelope Stone are both parents and professional dietitians.

There's no easy way to grieve. There's no easy way to contemplate bad things that happen. There's no easy way to tell someone "it'll be ok" when you can barely muster the faith to believe it.

Yesterday we found out that we lost the baby. More precisely, that the baby never fully developed. An empty black hole. I'm not exactly stellar at dealing with grief. I tend to bottle it up and act supportive and stable. Unrattled. Unflappable. Sometimes I deal best with what I feel through auxiliary means (writing, photography) ... and at the time, this was the best I could do to exorcise what was/is happening.

We're stunned. Shocked. Saddened. Angry. Confused. This is life.

the baby's room.

Yes, that is a talking PeeWee Herman doll, from about 1984. For years, I kept it in a box, trying to preserve it. Now, it's thoroughly scuffed. And when you pull the string, the voice is really creepy, all distorted. But I keep it. And now it's in Lu's room.

she doesn't know what to do with it.

And Pooh. All scrunched and funny. He's the best.