Les Jones: Baby Update

August 01, 2004

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Progress towards parenthood continues. We're about eight weeks out. Melissa spent the last few days researching strollers, and today she and her mom found the one she wants. The idea of pushing a baby around in a stroller fills Melissa's heart with joy.

Me, I've been building bookshelves and painting. This weekend I re-painted our bedroom. Next weekend I move my office from the guest bedroom to our bedroom to make way for the nursery, then paint the nursery. The baby shower is also next weekend. The theme for the nursery is the books of Beatrix Potter, with an emphasis on Peter Rabbit.

Melissa thinks we're going to have a crack-addicted crack baby because of all the crack she's been taking. Oh, wait, not crack. Maalox. We're going to have a Maalox baby, if there is such a thing. We have car Maalox, purse Maalox, and bedside Maalox to help her get through the night.

Pregnancy ain't easy. My advice to men looking for a wife: choose someone who isn't a wimp, because it takes a strong woman to have a baby. My advice to women looking for a husband: ditto, because it ain't easy being the man, either.

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Say, you'll have to buy a nice anti-varmint for Mr. McGregor. :)

Mrs. Thib got a prescription for Zantac, which REALLY helped the heartburn.

Posted by: Thibodeaux at August 02, 2004

Thanks, Thib. I mentioned Zantac to Melissa, and it turns out her doctor prescribed it for her, but someone wondered if it was OK to take during pregnancy. She's going to doublecheck with her doctor to make sure it's OK, but it sounds like it is.

Posted by: Les Jones at August 03, 2004

Doh...I had my info wrong: the Zantac is over-the-counter, which the doctor said was OK, but that wasn't working, so she got a 'scrip for Nexium (The Purple Pill). I can't keep all this stuff straight.

Posted by: Thibodeaux at August 03, 2004

So Nexium is for heartburn? The way they have to soft-pedal drug ads on TV I didn't even know what it was supposed to treat.

Posted by: Les Jones at August 03, 2004

Yeah, those ads are kind of vague.

Posted by: Thibodeaux at August 04, 2004

With the big day coming soon, it's probably time to order a black market box of Cuban cigars to celebrate. Or, alternatively, and more politically correct, you could substitute with ... uh ... uh ... uh, something, I guess. Sorry, I don't know what the protocol is nowadays.

Posted by: Interested-Participant at August 05, 2004