Nursing Pillow

My apologies for the length of time between posts. As you can see, I've been a little busy. :)

I've always had a hesitation to hold babies. There are a few factors such as shyness, inexperience, uncertainty and fear of not holding them safely or securely. Most of those still exist for me but my experience and confidence are growing, shyness is gone because it's our child and securely holding them is greatly improved thanks to the nursing pillow pictured above.

Many nursing pillows, like the one I use to hold our baby, are U-shaped so that it wraps around my waist. A form of that shape helps it stay in place and allows me an arm or two free if I need to maneuver a bit. The biggest improvement I learned about from the ever problem solving Heather. She told me of how she modified her pillow to tie in the back so that she could feel safe about having her baby on her lap while completing the tasks necessary to keep her family running well.

I don't feel the need for those ties and am fortunate that my time with our daughter is for enjoyment. I never need to hold her and try to complete the essential tasks at the same time. Though I do find my available time to do what I need to do, and what I want to do, quite stretched thin and I don't have the work load my wife does. More quality sleep would help in getting things done more easily, and I truly don't need to be told it will get better. We know it will, but that doesn't help on the days following a bad night.

Until she's climbing all over me I will appreciate this pillow that allows me to hold our bundle closer.

Source: Most baby supply stores and some department stores.

Slowing Things Down

My apologies that today's post did not get put up at the usual time and as expected. It is a work in progress and I'm happy that the reason it is not up is not due to illness or other problems but due to the fact that I was making a photo. The photo was an experiment that failed. Well, I suppose no experiment that teaches you something is a failure, but the results were not what I expected. Mainly it was due to the fact that garden flowers do not have the luminescence under UV light that I expected and that the moonrise calculator I used online was off by an hour because Saskatchewan and Mexico City are the only smart places in North America who do not participate in daylight savings time.

Summer is a great time for making photos, not as great for processing and writing posts because the winter will come too soon and too harsh to waste any opportunity to be outside enjoying the weather and photographing. The second reason that posting may slow down in this space is because I'm running very low on material ready to share. That doesn't mean I don't have ideas and photos brewing in the back of my mind but the images that are ready to go are growing fewer by the week. The third, and most significant, reason is that we are growing closer to the arrival of our baby which involves preparations and will involve a pleasant shifting of priorities in the next while.

I still welcome your visits, contributions and sharing my work with those you feel would benefit from, or appreciate, it. There may simply be occasional gaps in upcoming posts. By no means is this work complete or forgotten about. I may simply be even more aware and prudent about making the most of every opportunity available to me to create a new photo.

I expect to share this week's post with in the next two days and will try to have more work prepared ahead of time in case we have an early arrival of our family's addition.