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So the past few days I've been trying the full regimen of supplements. This is a lot of pills: 3 drugs, 3 pills of each 3 times a day. Ugh. Fenugreek has a bad aftertaste.

The other problem is that Motilium (domperidone) is sold in packets of 10, and you have to ask the chemist for them (the UK is somewhat paranoid about letting people buy large quantities of pills, and if you want to buy anything more than a tiny packet of Nurofen, you have to ask for it). Even asking for 3 packets got Neil the 3rd degree. I'm tempted to buy it online (not illegal as far as I know, since it's nonprescription). It's also cheaper: Boots do a packet for nearly £4! The only thing stopping me is that I don't know which online stores are reputable and which aren't.

BTW, anyone tried goats rue? Had that one recommended as good for PCOS women. (I really wish metformin were more established in breastfeeding women... since it clears up the underlying problems with PCOS it might have an effect, although it would probably have worked better if I'd taken it throughout my pregnancy.)

Yes, I am a stubborn creature. And at this point I also really want to see if I can lactate almost for its own sake--it's like proving something, as stupid as that sounds.

I'm hosting my NCT group on Wednesday and I'm going to make rugelach (these are filled pastry crescents). I'm going to do half with the traditional walnut and spice filling (no raisins for me), but what should I do for the others? Jam (raspberry, apricot) or chocolate? (OK, you can fill rugelach with all sorts of things, but that's what I'd typically put in...)

(It gives me an excuse to make them. I've never seen rugelach here, and anyway, the local kosher bakeries don't do milchig cookies. I prefer the traditional butter and cream cheese dough, not the tasteless pareve one made with margarine.)

Which reminds me: just over a month till Purim, hamentaschen time! But I wouldn't make those for non-Jewish (or at least non-Central/Eastern European) guests--the most common fillings are mohn (poppy seed) or prune lekvar. Poppy for me. (My mother loves prune anything and I can't stand it.)

I am: Ursula K. LeGuin Perhaps the most admired writing talent in the science fiction field.

Which science fiction writer are you?

eh, at least i got a writer I like :-)

This absolutely disgusts me:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2192972.ece

" To survive, the library proposes to slash opening hours by more than a third and to charge researchers for admission to the reading rooms for the first time.

"All public exhibitions would close, along with schools learning programmes. The permanent collection, which includes a copy of every book published in the UK, would be permanently reduced by 15 per cent. And the national newspaper archive, used by 30,000 people a year, including many researching their family trees, would close... Since 2001, the library, now based in St Pancras and sites around London, has made savings of £40m and reduced its workforce by 15 per cent."

The BL should be one of the crown jewels of British culture. Literature has been one of the supreme arts of this country and we should celebrate it--not decimate our national library for the sake of a few million pounds.

Of course, judging by the state of my local libraries, it shouldn't come as a surprise. This government knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Libraries still matter. Books are not an outdated technology, and the Internet in your home is still no substitute for the resources of a library and trained professionals. I spent many happy hours in my local library as a child and it's a resource I want for my children too.

I'm watching ER, and Abby goes into a Mommy & Me class in a Baby Bjorn. So of course they have militant AP-types telling her she needs to use a sling instead--and get snotty when she says she's a doctor.

Quelle stereotype. What's next, radical breastfeeding Nazis who scream when she takes out a bottle?

( ER spoiler )

I slept like a log today (I think I screwed up my pills, the dose I was meant to take in the middle of the night was yesterday's not today's). Neil let me sleep, and he did the shopping (well, I can't do it myself, and I suppose it's easier for him to go on his own than to take the baby out). Then I made soup and kugel, and we watched Top Gear.

Aliza is in her basket and can't decide if she wants to sleep or not. ;) She's started staying awake longer rather than waking, eating, and going straight back to sleep, and she cries for cuddles when she's awake. I haven't worked out the right position for her in the sling yet, especially when I'm still--I know mothers who wore their babies a lot even when they were sitting, and I'd like to be able to do it sometimes to give my arms a rest. :) Her muscles are starting to relax now instead of always being flexed, which makes things easier, and she's starting to explore with her hands.

I'm still wondering what colour her eyes are going to be--they're very dark bluish-grey, more grey than mine. A lot of grey eyes turn brown or hazel. Neil's hazel (one brown-eyed parent, one blue), I'm blue (and my mother has very unusual grey-green-blue eyes) so there's quite a range of possibilities! I think her hair will stay dark, though--I know many babies are born with dark hair that falls out and then you see the 'real' colour, but the fine hair underneath is dark as well (a little darker than mine). We'll see. Her skin is a little darker than mine, not too much; my mother was relieved that she didn't get a ghost grandchild to match her ghostly daughter ;)

One argument I hate: "it's unfair to discriminate against women who may be naturally thin".
Well, it's perfectly all right for them to say someone is too fat to be a model. Why isn't it equally fair to say someone is too thin?

As always, hypocrisy rules!

While we're on the subject, most ridiculous weight excuse ever. Apparently, Mary-Kate Olsen hasn't had an anorexia relapse--"The blonde hair she has now makes her look skinny." Or so says her publicist.

If that's all you need, bring on the peroxide, I'll go platinum!