Coucoumellisms

I know this is something that doesn't really matter, and something that will probably take care of itself later... But I DON'T CARE , I am going to be shallow anyway. I went to the doctor's office the other day. We were trying to weigh the baby. I had to step on the scale and then hold the baby. I wasn't quite sure, but I think the scale read 179 lbs for me!!! Ackkkk !!! So I came home and weighed myself on the scale here, and it read 170 lbs. Better, but still,... very disappointing. I shouldn't weigh more than 5 lbs above my pre-pregnancy weight. I didn't gain more than 5 lbs with previous pregnancies. See? I knew this would happen, I had finally lost that 15 extra lbs I've been lugging around since 1997 and 3 months later I get pregnant again, goodbye slim figure... Now I have to lose it all, all over again. And who knows how long that'll take? Then, I go and weigh myself on the other scale downstairs, and IT reads about 178!!! Double ACK...

December 6, 2005 A couple of hours before giving birth Gabriel and Nicolas Nicolas Auntie Rose Anne and Nicolas Jean-Alexandre and Nicolas Me, with Nicolas

Nicolas just smiled at me this morning!! He is exactly three weeks old today. Last night, we slept a bit better. But he still has a cold, so that creates some difficulty breathing. But at least it's not too bad of a cold.

Yesterday was nice, and relaxed. Just hung out in pyjamas most of the time... Not getting much sleep at night though... I am sooooo looking forward to getting over the newborn stage... I have never enjoyed it, and have never been sorry it's over. They drink all the time, are rarely awake, happy and NOT drinking. I get ver little sleep at night, they aren't all that cute and they don't qite fill out their clothes yet. I know, I know, there are moms out there who just love this stage. Good for them,... Maybe if I had nothing else to do in a day but sit around and take care of a baby while someone else took care of everything else, things would be different. Unfortunately, I have neither cook nor maids, and I have 4 other children to boot.

Here in Québec we have one month after the baby is born to register the birth, after which we are penalized and it's a bunch of trouble. Nicolas is already 15 days old today. All the papers are ready for him to be registered. Everything is filled out and ready to go, except for one thing. Since he was born at home, "unassisted" (since I had a renegade mid-wife, the birth was "unassisted"), I need a paper signed by a doctor saying he saw me with a newborn baby. I have only two more weeks in which to get this and send everything out. But,... I can't even find a doctor willing to look at my baby and sign a paper saying he saw a newborn baby!!! I tried to make an appointment to see my gynecologist, early last week, but the secretary put me on a waiting list. So I called up my family doctor who's office is at least a half hour to 45 mins away. (In a different city.) And his secretary didn't think he "did" that. (Now how hard could it be to do t...

THREE THINGS ABOUT YOU!!! Copy and re-post into your own bulletin with your three things... Three names you go by: 1. Coucoumelle (over the internet) 2. Juana la Cubana (to a few people in Paraguay, and on my blog) 3. Mom, Mommy, Maman... Three parts of your heritage: 1. Ummm, I grew up in Moose Factory, that's a major part of my heritage, I can't claim to be Cree or anything, but Cree people definitely had an influence on how I act and how I think. (Going to live in a non-native environment was actually a culture shock to me, and it took a few years to figure it out!!) 2. French-Canadian 3. Scottish/English-Canadian (My siblings and I have finally come to the conclusion that we just don't fit in anywhere, English-Canadians think we're French, French-Canadians think we're English, and of course noone's going to mistake us for Cree (heh heh). Or maybe it's just that we're truly Canadian?) Three things that scar...

... and all her family today. They lost their father in May to cancer, and just lost their mother to cancer today at 9:45 am.