Things have been quiet around here. In between diaper changes and milk bottles and baths, not to mention work, I haven’t had much energy or desire to write herein for the last week. And I don’t much feel like writing anything now either, truth be told.
Things have been relatively uneventful since Naoko and Kaika came home from the hospital on Tuesday (the 25th), and I count that as a good thing! I’m slowly getting a handle on how best to change a diaper, or to bottle feed. I haven’t yet figured out how to stop Kaika from peeing at the very moment I’m changing his diaper. It’s interesting, during his first bath at home, as soon as I put him into the water, he started peeing! Perhaps there’s something comforting about being unemcumbered with clothes that induces him to take a whiz. (This incident caused me to remember how I loved, when I was a child, to pee when I was swimming in the ocean or pool. It was just so, uh, liberating!).
FYI, Naoko is breast-feeding Kaika, but sometimes it isn’t enough or it becomes uncomfortable for her. This is where I come in, mixing up the formula and then bottle-feeding him. Naoko says I should try to let Kaika suck at my nipple so I’ll better understand how uncomfortable it can be.
The image above is from a roll of 35mm B&W I shot at the hospital last Monday (the 24th). Click the link below for more. All were shot on Tri-X 400.
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