Oddly related tidbits.....

Jamie got her first bath in a 13 X 9" aluminum cake pan.

My Dad flew in from North Carolina to see Jamie quite soon after she was born. I left Jamie with our neighbor ( who eventually did daycare for us) & drove down to pick him up. His flight was delayed because of weather. I was paged in the airport. I was told to call Cigdem. I called her and she said "Daaaaaaaaaling. Your faaaaathaa is in
Chicaaaaago & won't get in for 4 - 5 hours". My breasts were engorged. I drove all the way back home, breast fed Jamie & drove all the way back to the cities just in time to pick Dad up.

We didn't have a dresser for Jamie's clothes so I folded them neatly and put them in neat little rows on the floor. It wasn't long & Dan's Dad brought one over for us to use. It was missing a handle and had some Christmas ribbon threaded through it for a pull handle. I think it was green.

I used cloth diapers ( disposable diapers were just coming out) but didn't have a washer and drier. Laundry mats definitely are on my suckage list.

It was in a laundry mat that I learned that sterile - izable glass baby bottles were way over rated. Jamie threw hers one time in one & it shattered into a million pieces.It was quite embarrassing. Plastic bottles after that.