"Hang in there sockiboo! My first two were each a week past the due date (but that's just an educated guess anyway not that that makes you feel anymore comfortable)."
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- About Me:
- Looking for products, news, information and hilarity that will be as useful to parents as this screen name suggests. May occasionally do a serious review or give out useful information, but don't count on it.
About the Blog
The original Meconium, written by this guy way back when, had the following mission:
Your baby comes into this world with nothing, and the world then attempts to overcompensate by offering an unending parade of crap, causing the dreaded Babies R Us Breakdown. Should you purchase the new stroller with built-in bottle warmer, or spend that money on a weekend in Vegas? Meconium (Latin for the crap that comes with your baby) will tell you when to buy and when to double down.
We hope to live up to those high standards.
Got an idea for a product for us to feature? Email alan @ offsprung . com
Want to contribute a post to Meconium? Offsprung members can Friend and Message Meconium with the links to the left.
For the record Meconium also means:
The fecal mass released at pupation by the larvae of some insects.
and
The milky sap of the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy; crude opium.
Your baby comes into this world with nothing, and the world then attempts to overcompensate by offering an unending parade of crap, causing the dreaded Babies R Us Breakdown. Should you purchase the new stroller with built-in bottle warmer, or spend that money on a weekend in Vegas? Meconium (Latin for the crap that comes with your baby) will tell you when to buy and when to double down.
We hope to live up to those high standards.
Got an idea for a product for us to feature? Email alan @ offsprung . com
Want to contribute a post to Meconium? Offsprung members can Friend and Message Meconium with the links to the left.
For the record Meconium also means:
The fecal mass released at pupation by the larvae of some insects.
and
The milky sap of the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy; crude opium.
Latest Activity
MamatothaMax commented on Meconium's blog post 'Name That Kid'"Sailor's last name is very German so we wanted the boys to have traditional English names to represent my side of the family. Morgan (a boy) got his name from the Arthurian legend. I know the character is female but in England it's a…"
mcglory13 commented on Meconium's blog post 'Name That Kid'"Kid was 2 weeks late here too. And all of our family was here for Christmas. Entertaining them was tricky, especially when I got put on bed rest for the last few weeks. They ended up organizing all my closets. Then they went home. Then the baby…"
sockiboo commented on Meconium's blog post 'Name That Kid'"glad to know we're not alone when it comes to the dawdling baby. i've been trying to stay off the internet (since there are only so many ways you can say, "no, not yet"), but inevitably someone takes the radio silence as proof…"
Egggirl commented on Meconium's blog post 'Name That Kid'"http://www.nymbler.com/ is a great site for playing with names. Kind of like Pandora for names, and you can put in multiple name inspirations. Awesome time waster. So is Baby Name Voyager, which shows the popularity of the top (1,000 I think) names…"
hermit crab commented on Meconium's blog post 'Name That Kid'"I found myself drawn to the names of tragic Shakespearean characters when I was drawing up my baby list. The cool-sounding ones, at least. I mean, who wouldn't want a baby Cordelia?
The boy's name we chose was Shakespearean, but my…"
zombiemom commented on Meconium's blog post 'Name That Kid'"I named my son Samuel mainly because I liked the name , and I liked its nickname Sam. But it also sounded good with my husband's last name, is common but not too popular, is easily spelled, and hopefully won't get him made fun of in…"
kommishoner commented on Meconium's blog post 'Name That Kid'"Y, ever since that fateful day when I was 6. ;) Turns out it was, in fact, my middle name (at 6 I only had the haziest notion of what a middle name was), which has made documents and such significantly easier."
kommishoner commented on Meconium's blog post 'Name That Kid'"You know, the beauty of names is that your kids can always change them. I suffer from the same naming affliction as mcglory (there were three of us in my kindergarten class), and by the time I was 6 I'd had it. I started a new afterschool…"
mightyninjamom commented on Meconium's blog post 'Name That Kid'"Little B was not granted a name until roughly an hour after he was born. I could just NOT get AlphaGeek to commit to a name! My massage therapist set me on the path after saying that she felt like his name needed to be something with short…"
"FP - I named one of my Barbies "Madison" after I saw Splash."
Floor Pie commented on Meconium's blog post 'Name That Kid'"I like how you can trace the popularity of a name over time. Check out #7 - Madison. It doesn't show up on the list until 1985. One year after Splash came out. And check out Trinity, which jumped from #209 to #74 the year after The Matrix came…"
Kathleen commented on Meconium's blog post 'Name That Kid'"My son (2.5) is number 3 on the list, Michael. Oh well, we didn't choose it bc of how popular it is - it was after a dead relative, a name both me & my SO could agree on so Michael Henry it is! I really like it though, it suits him & I…"
Bigkrygowski commented on Meconium's blog post 'Name That Kid'"The Achiever is in the high 300s. My name is still in the top 100 after all these years."
Boring User Name commented on Meconium's blog post 'Name That Kid'"The Kid has a pretty common name. But as he was due at the end of May, I was able to check the SSA list to make sure he didn't move up to the top 10. If he had, there would have been re-negotiation.
And sockiboo, unfortunately, my tale…"
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 7:29am on April 8, 2010,
Alan said… - Sadly no Ms. Dragon, sadly no.
- At 4:02am on April 8, 2010,
Herasmus B. Dragon said…
- Is this GX?!?
- At 5:30pm on April 7, 2010,
The Oracle said… - Yay!
Meconium's Blog
Name That Kid
Posted on June 22, 2010 at 10:18pm 32 Comments 0 Likes
The latest top baby names are in, via this article on PBS or directly from the Social Security Administration, and I guess I should not be surprised how much pop culture influences the choice of baby names. From vampires to glee clubs, football players to reality TV stars, ideas come… Continue
Dad of the week
Posted on June 18, 2010 at 9:30pm 6 Comments 0 Likes
At least I am assuming it is Dad. For father's day comes this touching story about a boy with a loose tooth. I can only hope they develop this into a marketable product.…
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GrrrrrrrrrrrAnimals!
Posted on May 12, 2010 at 8:48pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
Animal themed products this week that will delight and mystify. First up, Sock Monkeys!
This may be a little too much sock monkey for me, but I never really trusted the sock monkey. Those flat, dead eyes and slightly smiling lips kinda creep me out. Maybe that baby…
Continue Listmania
Posted on April 28, 2010 at 9:27pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
Teacher Tom's blog post on Dangerism got me thinking about lists after he posted a link to 5 dangerous things for kids to try. It's a good… Continue
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