True be told I’m a nag… and I’m done being pregnant. Giving birth to Baz was an extraordinary experience, which I will cherish forever.
I feel complete. Once that is combined, J has of course, heard it all for the past 4 months — All the talk about our birth control situation. Currently our method of choice is two kids and sleep deprivation however we do have fond memories of naughtiness and UNPROTECTED sex — only allowed by getting pregnant in the first place.
Rather than counting down a due date for a baby, on the most part we were calculating how many weeks we had remaining for our sex glorious unprotected sex…. and now, 4+ months later we’re getting a bit more sleep yet even less sex.
Why?
Although birth control has probably been my number one question for care providers post partum, we have yet to find the answer. I can’t take the pill, as I’m breastfeeding and I’m not about to rely on that as a good method either. Condoms just suck… as we were pretty spoiled and diaphrams don’t seem to work all that effectively, just ask Mad. I almost signed up for an IUD, even though the idea doesn’t sound all that appealing. So, this has left us with sterilization. My excuse is that it’s fairly major surgery for women seeing I’m already anxious and leery about the IUD procedure.
J’s excuse is that, although he feels he’s finished as far as proliferating the human race goes he doesn’t know if he will want another child some day. I’m not sure with whom? Perhaps he holding out for a fabulous brunette during his mid-life years?
I think that he just doesn’t want anyone tinkering. That’s fair but even my dad has gotten on the nagbandwagon to let J know how simple the “snip” really is.
That being said and to be fair, my birth control research has included vasectomies. So far, I’ve learned it’s a simple, 15 minute procedure which can now be done scalpel free, some degree of discomfort and swelling will be experienced in the first few days and this week is vasectomy awareness week. (September 12-18) I wonder what colour bracelette you’d get for that? Anyhow, Marie Stopes International UK has launched this webcast which shows an unedited vasectomy being performed from start to finish. It is quick, yes. I have my opinion after watching it. I’m going to make J “aware” later on this evening too… live on our podcast. Who knows where we end up? Well, I kind of do.
Vasectomy Anyone? September 16, 2005
First Day of School September 6, 2005
Wee ya! Actually it went off quite well. Mad decided last night that she didn’t want to go to school so she threw a few fits and didn’t want to sleep.
… Even after waking up she didn’t want to see the sun or her friends – until we said that we bought her a back to school present.
I think that worked. She shot out of bed and even agreed to a morning pee. We decided that a fast bribe would do the trick when we saw great sounding bamboo wind chimes. (stick chimes, as Mad calls them.) At the beginning of the summer we hit the road to Manitoulin Island, where Mad and I were enchanted by a little shop that had about 50 similar stick chimes displayed outside on a very windy day. Since then she’s been making wind chimes with anything, from shoelaces, hairbrushes and driftwood found at the beach. We figured it would be a nice way to merge the summer with the start of her second (2nd!!) school year.
Anyhow, it went off with out a hitch. She was thrilled to see her friends again and she went off to grab the ferry without so much as a glance over her shoulder to the three of us remaining family members waving her off. She still had the high when we picked her up.
She said that she had a GREAT day… She painted a picture and nobody bit her, always the marker of a good day.
My first day with alone with one baby at home included J, so I didn’t get the full effect but we got to grab all the back to school items that I didn’t bother to get before she started school. Aren’t I the prepared mom? “Hey Mad, you’re inside shoes that we left at school last year probably won’t fit you, so you can go barefoot, K?” J got to see most of my day: Walmart, breastfeeding, clean up, diaper, breastfeeding, nap, blog, BF, more toy hiding and purging…. J took the time off so we could really clean up and declutter – we’re both currently blogging and remixing our Flickerbug Podcast.
So here’s to a great year. We’re thinking that this will be the breakthrough year as she’s now in the “Big Class”. She likes having a schedule, doing real projects… and getting time away from we the chaotic.
