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August 27, 2003
Hey everyone,
Does it seem that summer has all of a sudden ended? I have to say that I am thrilled. I truly do not like hot weather. We have had a terribly hot and smoky summer. There are some massive forest fires raging in the Rockies, destroying everything in their path. We are fortunate to live far away from the fires, but due to the jet stream, we get a pall of thick smoke over our city. Suddenly the air has cleared, and the temps are in the low 20s (70s for the Fahrenheit crowd) and the nights are gloriously comfortable. I love autumn. I love the weather, the beautiful trees, and I cannot forget that I love fall fashions!
To gate or not to gate?
Now, I think it doesn’t need to be said, but we all want our kids to be safe. But I also want Sam to be able to function in society. I have been struggling over a pretty silly decision. When Sam crawled – we gated the stairs. We have a two-story house – but the stairs are a set of 6 steps, then a large landing, and then 6 more steps running parallel to the first. When Sam was about a year he learned to crawl down backward. The second level of our house is completely baby proofed (as long as we close the bathroom doors), and so once he had perfected coming down, I took off the gate. Sam loved the freedom of going up and down the stairs. He LOVES playing in his room, by himself. Well, recently he started walking down the stairs. This half gives me a heart attack every time I see it. So I started gating the stairs when I wasn’t actually playing with him. But I kind of regret it. Sam seems to have lost a little of his independence. He has never slipped, he is not a daredevil at heart, so he walks VERY slowly. I am not naïve enough to think that I can or want to watch his every move, so if I take the gate off, he will go up or down on his own. Any advice on this would be appreciated.
Talking
I would love for my kid to call me mom. DH would love to be called dad. And while Sam makes the sounds mamama or dadada, he doesn’t refer to us as this – he has never. And he will mimic so many things, “Sam, can you say cat – cat. Sam, can you say ball – ball.” But, “Sam – can you say Mom – blhggfduygayudguw.” Sam is probably a tad slow in the talking department – he only has a vocabulary of maybe 15-20 words. But I would love it if one of those would be mom!
Sam has added a new song to his repertoire – well, at least part of a song. He loves to go around yelling EIEIO. As I mentioned last week, we bought the Baby Einstein Baby Doolittle DVD when we went to Ottawa, and it features kids singing Old MacDonald. Well, out of the blue Sam started this EIEIO thing. And if I sing Old MacDonald he jumps in at all the right times with a very robust EIEIO!
Airport Security
Well, as many of you who have traveled are aware – airport security is tight – it has been since September 11. The changes, even here in Canada, make me a much more comfortable traveler. So this leads to another story. Yesterday I was looking for my car keys in my purse, and I pulled out a set of keys that did not look familiar. DH informed me that they were my dads extra set – woops – I brought them home by mistake. Then I paused and looked at the key chain – it was a standard issue Swiss Army Knife!! I went through security many times in my two-day trip home, in two different cities. Nobody caught this. I was allowed on two planes with a knife with several different blades. How is that possible? It really shook me up. I feel like complaining to the airport authorities – they tried to take Sam’s baby fork (with the safety tips!!) but I got on with a knife? Scary.
TTC
Well, when we came back home I went to the dr. and got a prescription for Clomid. I have ANOTHER new dr., but this one is supposed to be permanent. She was very nice, very warm. But anyway, I went to see her and said that I had been TTC #2 for six months and I’d like to go back on Clomid. Although they want you to try for a year before you go on Clomid initially – they told me to try for six months this time. She looked through my file and found the letter from the RE when I went through all of the IF testing before going on Clomid last time. She says,” ah I see here Dr. C diagnosed you with PCOS and that’s why they put you on Clomid before.” What?? I have PCOS? Nobody ever told me that.
So I went home (prescription in hand) and researched PCOS. Everything I initially read said classic symptoms are no periods, obesity, excessive facial and body hair and acne. OK – I get a period every month, while I may not like my weight, I am not overweight, I only have to shave once a month I have so little hair and I get maybe two zits a year. But when I read further, other not so common symptoms are insomnia, light periods and difficulty conceiving. Well, I am the insomnia queen – I sleep two nights probably out of every seven, AF lasts anywhere from a few hours to MAYBE two days and I couldn’t soak a tampon if I left it in the whole two days, and I do have difficulty conceiving. But I have come to the conclusion that if I DO have PCOS – it must be a really mild case! If AF starts next week, I start the Clomid the next cycle. I didn’t actually get PG on Clomid with Sam – it was my first month off it that did the trick. I don’t know if there’s a connection, but I’ll give it a try.
That’s it for now! I can’t even remember the questions I was going to ask last weekJ
Talk soon,
Jenn and Sam
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