What is a Nursette?

I had to google this one...I got an email from a big toy/baby chain store (from my registry 4 years ago?) advertising 50% off these things called "Nursettes". I imagined since it uses the word "Nurse" which refers to of course breastfeeding, it had something to do with little boobs? Maybe those nipple shields that help sometimes when women are having troubled nursing? Perhaps it is for shy nursing moms who want a small kind of cover to wear over themselves and baby for privacy when they Nurse In Public.

No.

Nursettes are little prefilled, premixed bottles of formula that are ready for baby. One of the things that came up in the google search even said that it was for newborns which I kind of reacted to. I reacted to it with sympathy for the baby who is fed that upon being brought into this world rather than the milk that mother nature made custom for that baby through mom. I felt tears welling up thinking about the mom who for some reason, either guilt, shame, or maybe medical reasons decided not to give this gift to her baby. I can only imagine the feelings that go with it.

Then I started thinking of the other side...the business side of it. I wonder if in the product development meetings,  that led to labeling this artificial human milk product after the process used to extract actual human milk from the mammary glad of a human, were hoping that the reference would make it seem more pure? More natural? I'm sure it is definitely more convenient than those cans that they sell of powder to mix into the stuff, I wonder if they sell "Nurses" for the larger babies? I mean if they use the word "Nursette" then it is referring to a smaller version of something called "Nurse" or "Nurses" right? Then I started thinking about little nurses and yeah, well I think that was about the time I googled the word because I had no idea.

I think I was hoping it was a cover, which I was thinking about blogging about because I personally never felt the need for a nursing cover. That would have been a much lighter blog post, research project, whatever the last twenty minutes was. I could have even supported that as I know some pretty cool moms who make and sell those (like LilSoak)

Now I think I just want to go snuggle my baby sleeping next to me as I type this up...and when he wakes up saying "Na-na!" I'll lift my shirt, and give him a sip of mommy milk so he can doze back to sleep...yawn...

Favorite Toy...

Zazen seems to have decided on his first favorite toy so I am leaving it with him as he naps...hoping he will be happy to wake up to it!!

First major spit up...

It's happened!! I'm kind of amazed that it's taken this long, but now at approximately 10 weeks he has officially done some serious spit-up action!!

Zazen pretty much puked all over the two of us, enough that we are both fully changing our clothes and washing the moby.

I'm glad it's just breastmilk he's eating!!!

Silence...

I don't usually, but right now, I love silence. Between the fussing, playing, whining, venting, lookat me's, brainstorming, crying, and phones ringing...I love silence. Each minute I believe is the equivalent to about 15 minutes sleep.

More.

Please.

Please.

She's a girl!

Last Friday was wonderful, work was smooth and I got picked up right on time to go to our big ultrasound!

Geoff and Kenzie were of course the ones that picked me up and were there for the whole thing. It was very clear that she is a little girl and right when we finished confirming she has all her parts the awesome (also pregnant!) tech panned out to see baby girls face again and we saw her out her little thumb in her mouth. . She looked just like Kenzie did, and I know this for sure because the day or two before we'd been watching the video of Kenzie's ultrasound. Didn't get a video this time but we did get a couple of awesome pictures!



She's just sucking her thumb and waiting patiently for the next 5 months to pass so she can join us...