vaccinate debate and a lil love

BigHugeSigh. I’m in the midst of a full-on freak out. I don’t know what to do about the H1N1 vaccine. Lola (10 months) goes to in-home daycare 3 days a week, other children who attend have school age siblings – so, basically, even though it’s a small place with not that many kids – it’s still germfest 2010. I've read pros and cons and talked to other parents, but I still have the same debate - my gut says “no way!”, but some other part of me (heart/head?) says “she’s so small – what would happen if she got sick?”. My answer? Do nothing. It’s just the beginning and I am not sold either way. I hope this is the right thing to do.

In lighter news, Lola’s lovey of choice is a sweater of mine. After reading “The No Cry Sleep Solution” (girl has sleep ISSUES), I started all the techniques, including placing something in her crib that smells like mama. So, this sweater (vintage Chanel cashmere no less) was the softest thing I could find. And I’ll admit it, I hadn’t washed it since I purchased it Labor Day Weekend 2008 at a garage sale in Aitkin MN (hey - they seemed like clean people), so it was certainly saturated with my…essence. Lo(la) and behold, she slept much better that night. It’s been about a month and she really does like this thing, she holds it when I nurse her, she wraps it around her chubby fingers and bites it (she’s got like 5 teeth coming through), she buries her face in it when I lay her down, clearly it’s become a thing of comfort to her. But then I imagined her at two, dragging around this rank old sweater, so I decided I should save her some embarrassment and make it into a proper lovey, but I can’t decide if I should just bind a big square or make into a stuffed animal of some sort...oh my, another BIG decision.

xx