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sad baby
guess it made good sense to stay home last night--
Emily was cranky and sick. We went through a number of clothes changes with the explody butt. She also got up at 4 and wouldn't go back to sleep until 6:30 and then only for a bit. After that she was cranky and crying and crawling from room to room yelling at things--I felt bad for her but it's funny to see her yell at bookcases.
Ninny isn't feeling well today. High blood sugar is what it looks like. I'm trying to get her to eat some chicken but she says no to even that. Hopefully when this morning's insulin shot hits she'll feel more like eating. She and Teatime go to the vet a week from tomorrow-he for his annual and shots, she for a diabetes check and another attempt to teach us how to test her sugar. We can't get the blood needed out of her wee bat ears to test, even with the monitor that needs only a bit of blood. When we try we prick, then have to squeeze and squeeze and it hurts and she gets upset and we give up. They are going to give us bigger lancets.
and thank god for peapod.
Oh..does anyone know if the nestle boycott is still meaningful? I would like to try miss em on good start, but what happened in the 70's with formula in third world countries and lots of dead babies --well I try my best to use our money where it matters, even if it's a small gesture. Which is also why I haven't bought anything at Nike, the Gap or Old Navy (and they do have great baby clothes and maternity clothes) for going on three years now--since I read about their truly evil manufacturing practices in the book NO LOGO. It's one thing to take the business overseas, it's another thing to practice child slave labor,fire pregnant women just because they are pregnant and lock people in for 48 hour shifts--people die working for these companies and it's too much to overlook. I know I can't address every human rights violation or we'd be living in the hinterlands making our own clothes and churning butter, but I will do what I can do.
Emily was cranky and sick. We went through a number of clothes changes with the explody butt. She also got up at 4 and wouldn't go back to sleep until 6:30 and then only for a bit. After that she was cranky and crying and crawling from room to room yelling at things--I felt bad for her but it's funny to see her yell at bookcases.
Ninny isn't feeling well today. High blood sugar is what it looks like. I'm trying to get her to eat some chicken but she says no to even that. Hopefully when this morning's insulin shot hits she'll feel more like eating. She and Teatime go to the vet a week from tomorrow-he for his annual and shots, she for a diabetes check and another attempt to teach us how to test her sugar. We can't get the blood needed out of her wee bat ears to test, even with the monitor that needs only a bit of blood. When we try we prick, then have to squeeze and squeeze and it hurts and she gets upset and we give up. They are going to give us bigger lancets.
and thank god for peapod.
Oh..does anyone know if the nestle boycott is still meaningful? I would like to try miss em on good start, but what happened in the 70's with formula in third world countries and lots of dead babies --well I try my best to use our money where it matters, even if it's a small gesture. Which is also why I haven't bought anything at Nike, the Gap or Old Navy (and they do have great baby clothes and maternity clothes) for going on three years now--since I read about their truly evil manufacturing practices in the book NO LOGO. It's one thing to take the business overseas, it's another thing to practice child slave labor,fire pregnant women just because they are pregnant and lock people in for 48 hour shifts--people die working for these companies and it's too much to overlook. I know I can't address every human rights violation or we'd be living in the hinterlands making our own clothes and churning butter, but I will do what I can do.
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And the boycott didn't make sense to me. Get mad about the lack of sanitary water to make formula with? That's what it boiled down to. When there wasn't good water to make formula with, the proponents of this boycott wanted Nestle to tell women to breastfeed instead. Like they'd know. When, I mean.
Jeezus.
Nestle provides a very good product. Use at your own discretion. Where water supplies aren't contaminated. And stuff.
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The proponents basically wanted them to not advertise, sell or promote this product because they could not satisfactorily address the surrounding concerns. If you use a formula, you aren't breastfeeding. If you are told to use water and the mix and you are totally unaware of how filthy the water is (because you drink it too, etc.) -
The whole thing made little sense because it blamed Nestle - and never addressed the underlying concerns. Because Nestle appears to be the big, bad, RICH guy, most of the blame landed there. Again, as if the company actually had some control or could realistically do much to help. This is in places where the communities are under a lot of external pressures (war, existing famine, poverty, disease) - the actual culprits, not a company providing a product. Some things aren't solved by throwing money at them.
Good Start is an excellent product. I'd be more willing to boycott Wal-Mart, myself.
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I expect them to be capitalists, but responsible capitalists.