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Thank God! She's sleeping...

It's just exhausting. Having a baby is exhausting, but it's a different kind of exhausting than non-baby owners can relate to. It's not a stay-up for days, lock yourself in the library cramming for exams exhausted, it's not a rave until dawn and go get a greasy breakfast exhausted,it's certainly not like the have sex instead of sleep all night exhausted... it's just a continual zombielike state.

Yesterday was a golden shiny day. We went to Basel with the 'Swisswives club' and did all the things you'd see in a chic flick EXCEPT with a baby. So, there was lots of fun shopping but since I'm now back to my college fighting weight, I didn't much want to try anything on...and we couldn't get into the shops with a stroller or there were only stairs in the shops and no changing rooms (in a country where having children is a woman's only life goal?!).

We then had a WONDERFUL artisanal meal in the Andreas Square, but as I found myself circling the square with the stroller, again and again praying that the terrible teether would nod off...well, the meal tasted better after all the excercise, I just would have liked to have enjoyed it in more than 4.2 minutes.

Before leaving, we went to Martha's for some swiss teething cookies, which sadly all of us mom's would never give to our kids because there's far too much sugar -but boy are we getting addicted to them! It was so fun to sit at Martha's and having a good girl chat...well, what I heard of it, since we were approaching meltdown and it was roll the stroller time again.

Finally, after anchoring onto a few very slim trams with the strollers and running for dear life to catch the train and fighting our way onto the train and watching petrified as the stroller with baby slept in the hall area. I slumped into my chair and my friend Sonya said 'boy, I am just so tired. Are you tired too?' I said, 'No, I'm in the momzone. It's an alter-reality only other moms know about....