How Baby

Momo chose an unorthodox way to get uninterrupted Pokopia time, but I have to respect her hustle!!

We had slush for approximately forty-five minutes last week — just long enough for Momo to fall and get her very first broken bone. Not content with the usual forearm or collarbone break, she went right for the big guns: right under her shoulder. It’s limiting her activities pretty well, because they can’t put that kind of break in a cast. She’s got it immobilized against her chest for now, and for the next 4-6 weeks, just in time for most of her spring camps, including her Grade 7 graduating class camping trip. It is, how they say, how it is.

She’s been a complete champion the whole time. The pain isn’t so bad as long as she’s not moving around, which means her chief complaint is the boredom of bedrest. Her mood is good, and she’s getting better at navigating with one arm every day. As for Kev and I, we’ve been unexpectedly thrust back into a stage of parenting that we thought we were long clear of: complete service. It’s been disorienting… but at least, this time, our not-so-tiny taskmaster can actually tell us what she needs instead of simply screaming.

So, that’s what’s new at Chez Baby. I hope you all had better weeks than Momo did. 🙂

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Locals! I’ll be giving a short seminar/Q&A at SFU for International Women’s Day! If you’re free on 4:30 on Tuesday, March 17 (yes I know that’s this week), you can join us at the SFU Women’s Center – open to all, even the non-university public. I’ll have some Motherlovers to sell (and to sign, if you’d like to bring your own!)

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TRANSCRIPT

Panel 1 (textless; Lindsay takes down a box from a high shelf in a closet)

Panel 2 (also textless; Lindsay blows dust off of a book)

Panel 3 (extreme close-up of a page of the book, where written beside ‘First broken bone’ is ‘March 10, 2026’

Panel 4 (no dialogue; Momo, wearing her arm in a sling, leans against Lindsay as they flip through Momo’s baby book)