Burl and family - 1 week old

Burl was 1 week old yesterday - hooray! We took a few pics to remember by...













































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Ryan took this picture last night - I was rocking Burl with my foot and nursing Ivo. I tried so-called tandem nursing once - it SUCKED! Ha ha! I have only read a little about it - and the little that I know has led me to think tandem is a euphemism for simultaneous - which I cannot accept. Albeit probably well-intentioned it's still just another misleading pull-the-wool-over-yr-eyes euphemism to normalize the bad things that women go through. Like "discomfort of labor," "domestic violence," and such. It's just ridiculous. Tandem, indeed!
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Ryan, Gail and Ivo are "fuk a walk" as Ivo puts it. It has been a huge day. Burl and I both had dr appts - I had 2, he had 1 plus a TB vaccination. We picked up his birth certificates, waited in endless lines, up and down elevators (big hospital)... got medicine - which is making me nauseated on top of the excellent headache I've been working on... And I remembered everything - even got my parking validated. I sort of can't believe it.

I wore Burl in my excellent new sling and carried around his car seat for when I had to put him down. It worked great. The sling gave me decent coverage for nursing and to shield Burl from too much light, germs, eyes... While several people (not including hospital staff whom I sorta know) came over to see him, only one was outta control. An older woman in the dermatology waiting room - yes, with unsightlies all over her face - stood right on top of us - maybe an inch away from me. She peered down at the little sliver of visible Burl and booby until they called her in to see the dr. Initially I acknowledged her and then ignored her when it became clear she didn't take social cues...
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I took these pics of Burl for his Alien Resident Card which Ryan will apply for tomorrow. They're cropped differently for the ARC. I hope we can use the smiling one!