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annas-momma has 169 days to go and is now in week 15
Age: 26
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Due date: 05 Sep ,2010
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15-1-2009 - Old Profile, Plug. Busy.My mood while writing this blog:
Busy.





As many of you may have noticed... in the many pictures of Anna I have
posted on here... she has a pacifier in her mouth. If you have REALLY
been noticing, then you may have also noticed that we changed brand of
pacifiers at about 3 or 4 months. My plan wasn't to have a baby that wanted
her pacifier all the time. I was going to let her use one for sleeping
when she was a newborn and then wean it away by 6 months. And let me
tell you the story about why that hasn't happened.

We call it a
Plug. Her pacifier is her Plug. So when I refer to it as so, you now
know what I'm talking about. I brought an Avent plug to the hospital
to give birth so that she would get used to that brand right away.
Also, thats the brand of bottles I use and I wanted it to be an easy
transition from breastfeeding to bottle if it was something she was
familiar with. Makes sense? I don't really know. But its what I went
with! The first time she even got the plug was when she got her
hearing tested because she was crying and they needed to calm her down
and saw the plug in the bassinet. It was kinda sweet because when the
nurse came back with her she was SO WORRIED that I was going to be mad
at her!! I giggled and told her it was fine and she was doing a
wonderful job. It almost breaks my heart that anyone would have ever
yelled at her in the past for that. Anywho... ADD... back to the
subject!! I didn't PLAN on having Anna even use a plug for that long.
Until I was faced with the fact that my child was a born thumb sucker.
I will NEVER FORGET... right after giving birth Dr. Mark put Anna on my
chest and I was crying and was elated. Then the nurse took her away to
the warmer and Anna was screeeeeaming!! Then it stopped as fast as it
started. I looked over to see what was up and the nurse (or maybe my
mom? Or Nadine? Its mostly a blur.) told me, "Shes sucking her
thumb!" It was sooo cute to look at... but I just couldn't believe
that she was MINUTES old and sucking her thumb to calm herself down.
After she got her bath... and I got to shower... I was holding her and
saw two little blisters on the inside of her right arm. I had seen on
TV babies who were born with blisters like that... and know what its
from? Sucking their arm while still inside! Dear Jesus!! This child
was literally CREATED by GOD to be a thumb sucker!!!!! As I talked to
more people about her sucking her thumb, the more I realized that it
would be a HARD habit to break in a child. I mean, seriously... its
not like I can "take away" her thumb to get her to stop! I was hoping
by 3 months old she wouldn't be still doing it... but she was and it
was more constant. THAT is where the change of the plug comes into
play. I decided that if she was going to be addicted to something, I
would rather it be the plug than her thumb. I've heard more success
stories of breaking the plug habit than the thumb. So I switched to
the more orthodontic (did I spell that right? Too lazy to spell
check. Yahoo for Hooked On Phonics!)
because, lets face it, almost all kids end up with braces at some point. I
would just like to have to have as little problems as possible.

She does still put her thumb in her mouth from time to time, but for the most part... she really loves her plug!!



Going swimming for the first time!



Anna's first baseball game... Pirates and Tigers.



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Children
Anna-Grace (2007)

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Added: 2009, 01, 09
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