Geek in Heels - Page 223

Reader Christine asked, i'm 4 weeks until my delivery and wanted to see what type of bottles you are using now. i have the medela bottles for feeding with orthodontic nipples, born free, and breastflow. can you review what bottles you tried and what you liked/disliked? i just received my target completion certificate and want to hold off on purchasing bottles until i can get a better idea of what bottles are really good. This was a very timely question, because we had just switched bottles last week and I had been meaning to blog about our great bottle search. In the past two weeks, when Claire was suffering from horrible colic, we decided to try different bottles to see if a different...

Baby, Claire, Motherhood, Parenting, Personal

My Goth Baby (And More Breastfeeding Woes)

Nov 22. 2010

In my last post I asked if anyone could guess why my breastmilk has turned purple. Well, kalen, mlwindc, and LatteLove got it right: it is due to gentian violet, which I am using to treat our latest bout of thrush. While gentian violet is proven to be one of the most effective remedies against thrush, I had been reluctant to try it because of the ick factor, the "ick" being that it is messy. Gentian violet is a deep purple solution that seems to get everywhere once the bottle is open, and it is almost always guaranteed to stain fabrics permanently and skin temporarily. Before giving Claire a cotton swab of the purple stuff, I had dabbed her lips and area around her mouth...

Motherhood, Personal

Purple Breastmilk

Nov 21. 2010

And now for this week's fun/gross (over)sharing post...

Blogging, Information, Web

The Geekinheels.com Web Empire

Nov 20. 2010

Webempires is a neat tool that aims to visualize the traffic of every website on the web. Basing its figures on the popular traffic aggregator Alexa, the site can be used to answer questions such as: What if your website was a country? What if all your visitors gathered in one place? And more! As of today, Alexa lists this blog as having 9,537 visitors per day. So if Geekinheels.com were a country, it would be larger than Montserrat! And if all the daily visitors were to gather in one place at the same time, it would surpass the number of people who gathered to break the Guinness World Record for the most people simultaneously making snow angels in one place: How does your site, or...