tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995876652383238082.post8162248075262198901..comments2023-08-28T05:35:23.205-07:00Comments on Crabmommy: Goodnight NobodyCrabmommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06167006707545335140noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995876652383238082.post-25040156050603567372007-03-02T14:48:00.000-08:002007-03-02T14:48:00.000-08:00and my new dooce friends pass my bloglink on to yo...and my new dooce friends pass my bloglink on to your dooce-y-type mompals. and anyone else so inclined who hasn't been forced into this already -- please pass on to your mompals or dadpals or mannies or nannies or doulos. i need readership, my mates. blogheaps of it.Crabmommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06167006707545335140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995876652383238082.post-13400273647225681712007-03-02T10:48:00.000-08:002007-03-02T10:48:00.000-08:00Thanks for all the excellent comments. I feel i ha...Thanks for all the excellent comments. I feel i have found my people. Now I can carp less in the day and actually be mildly pleasant at home. Welcome undomestic, kim, carrie, and jess. Grunnio, you should clearly have your own blog because you always speak sense and eloquently and hilariously so. I am feeling so adoring of my readers right now I had better get offline before I betray my promises to keep up the whining.Crabmommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06167006707545335140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995876652383238082.post-77822624969735963502007-03-02T09:29:00.000-08:002007-03-02T09:29:00.000-08:00Love the blog! (I too found your blog through Dooc...Love the blog! (I too found your blog through Dooce) I live in rural Montana and feel your pain. If I didn't have internet I would probably think I was the only one on earth that didn't think my babies poopy pants smelled like roses. God Bless you for being funny and cynical and telling it like it is. keep it up!picknwildflowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18251480243551115202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995876652383238082.post-48521271489463250462007-03-02T04:24:00.000-08:002007-03-02T04:24:00.000-08:00I love the blog: stating the obvious, which isn't ...I love the blog: stating the obvious, which isn't all that obvious, because most mommies fear the obvious. That sometimes we don't want to be mommies. Sometimes we just want to be people. Reading your blog (which I found from the ad on dooce.com), I spent most of the times laughing my ass off. You are a funny one-thanks for sharing in such brutal honesty.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17525087764266187574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995876652383238082.post-90756177334302419442007-03-02T04:09:00.000-08:002007-03-02T04:09:00.000-08:00I'm prospectively totally down with the Slap™...I'm prospectively totally down with the Slap™ when it comes to that (spouse volente) ... have heard way too many stories of tiny inmates running the asylum at night; don't ever want to go there, ever ever ever. (Ours is still learning to crawl, so we haven't had to cross that bridge yet.)<BR/><BR/>But! (Und this is a very big but ...) I've had to rethink the co-sleeping-ninny thing. About 4 months in, I was talking about the travails of getting up 5 times a night with an Indian colleague (and parent) who said, "why don't you just let the baby sleep with you? You don't have to get up, the baby doesn't get anxious and doesn't wake up as much, etc. ..." and when I made a borderline snarky comment about hippies or something, said, "that's how most of the world does it, actually ... it's only a (finger quotes) 'co-sleeping' thing in (finger quotes) 'America.'" Which, I have to say, kind of rocked my world. And for the next couple of months, before we finally got serious about the Ferber method, I felt much better about pulling her into bed with us at 3am so we could all just get a few more hours' sleep. There weren't any bad effects. If we go Round 2 here in a year or so I would definitely consider the co-sleeping route for the first 3 or 4 months (but this time would wait no longer than 4 mos, tops, to begin the Ferber routine ... talk about a lifesaver). Pre-dawn kicks to daddy's jugular notwithstanding.grunnio corocottahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14282955817890742526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995876652383238082.post-13259079436730166422007-03-01T21:56:00.000-08:002007-03-01T21:56:00.000-08:00Oh my, you are hilarious!Oh my, you are hilarious!Undomestichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585794251556789389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995876652383238082.post-13357772560927406992007-03-01T20:32:00.000-08:002007-03-01T20:32:00.000-08:00Kim,Thanks for using the trademark. I am glad you ...Kim,<BR/>Thanks for using the trademark. I am glad you found our method to be useful. As you know, all Crabmommy Methods come with 100% guarantee. As you may have seen with the whining post, if any of my advice doesn't work I will send you a bottle of cinnamon-toast-flavored syrup from Kellogg's. How many other mommybloggers can promise that? Much less Soho Parenting practices.<BR/><BR/>In all seriousness, thank you for the slap support. It is good to know one isn't alone in these matters. For -- tongue out of cheek now -- I definitely have had my doubts re. the spanking things and still am on the fence, truth be told. It's just nice to know it isn't JUST ME who swats the tiny bottom when nothing else seems to work. (I think where i live it is just me, though.)Crabmommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06167006707545335140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995876652383238082.post-18623481595840090672007-03-01T20:00:00.000-08:002007-03-01T20:00:00.000-08:00Oh crabmommy, you are a mommy after my own heart. ...Oh crabmommy, you are a mommy after my own heart. I am firm believer in the slap'em to sleep (oops Slap Them to Sleep tm) bed time routine :)<BR/><BR/>"Yes, sir mama", is the most commonly heard phrase in our home.info@thebabymarketplace.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06014741239570462225noreply@blogger.com