Delphine isn’t exactly talking yet, but she vocalizes plenty, and we like to record her chirps and grumbles. She specializes in the eh-eh, a cute little rhythmic burbling that sounds like the far-off suggestion of a full-fledged wail. Here’s a video of the eh-eh, heading into crying territory. (more…)
Should you be considering parenthood, there are plenty of classes, books, and how-to DVDs for you. Nervous about labor and delivery? Take a childbirth class. Concerned about maintaining your adult relationships post-baby? Get a self-help book on the topic. (more…)
Our insurance agents like us. They really like us. They send us birthday cards signed by everybody at the office. And now that we’ve had a baby (and added her to our life-insurance policies, of course), we’ve been upgraded from birthday-card status to baby-blanket status. (more…)
The baby-products industry is sort of like the pet-products industry: an endless opportunity for you to waste money on your beloved offspring/animal companion. Pet products, however, have the virtue of being relatively easy to figure out; there are only so many ways, after all, of putting a collar on a dog, rhinestone studs or no. But baby products? Most seem designed by the fiendish demons of parental torture. (more…)
Like most newborns — or at least like those newborns gracious enough to spare their parents the torment of incessant crying — Delphine sleeps about 22 hours out of the day. But that doesn’t mean she’s just, you know, asleep. No, she grunts and squeaks and snores her way through slumber. And sometimes she goes through an entire oh-wait-maybe-I’m-waking-up-and-am-going-to-cry routine — before falling fully asleep again. These 10 photos, taken over the course of about five seconds, show her faking us out before zonking out again.
