during one of my 3 am feeding, i started wondering why nature made it so that in mammals, females are the ones who have to carry a baby, go through labor and breastfeed. all males have to do is donate their sperm and they're done with the whole baby development process. why didn't nature allow males to participate more, maybe the feeding process at least? i suppose a female is more invested so that once the baby is born, it is instinctual to take care of the baby and not abandon him/her, although there may of course be exceptions. i guess in nature, males are busy hunting and providing while the females take care of the brood for the continuation of the species. so for humans, what motivates a man to take a more active part in the whole baby care-taking process? must be L-O-V-E.

Our baby is now almost 3 weeks old. Amazing. He's so cute. He's survived an earthquake and now Hurricane Irene! OK, I admit the earthquake was nothing to write home about but still what a week for natural disasters in NY. Earthquakes are so unusual that when it occurred, I thought I was having a dizzy spell or someone really heavy was bounding up the stairs of our apt building and shaking the toilet (which is where I was when the earthquake occurred). Our neighborhood didn't sustain that much damage after Hurricane Irene passed through, but we did see a few fallen trees and branches around due to the high winds. Since we are at a higher elevation, we had no flood issues. (I guess I shouldn't complain about having to walk uphill across the avenues to get home.)

So far, I don't think we've damaged the baby yet. Using the baby bjorn for the first time was a little stressful, but we did it. Baby in the pujtub seems to be working out well at bath time. The smaller tub makes it easy to handle the baby as the baby has no where to slip. I think I'm feeding the baby enough. It's not hurting as much to breastfeed anymore. Hopefully he is now at birthweight. He gets weighed in tomorrow if the dr's office is open (they shut down all the subways this weekend due to the hurricane so not sure if the trains will be up and running tomorrow or if people will be back at work).

can't believe summer is almost over and labor day is this coming weekend. time sure does fly. my maternity leave will be over before i know it. hmm my boss called me on monday to see how things were going with the baby, but he called on thursday for a work related question...he has no one to talk to anymore so he misses me already. i don't quite share the same sentiments.