One of the seven deadly sins?
At times, I find myself suffering from nappy envy. When realise what I am doing I just want to walk away from the conversation I am currently holding and bang my head against the nearest wall. Nothing to do with the mother I'm talking to at the time, it's just that I suddenly listen to the drivel I am talking and want to tie my tongue in a knot.
Don't misunderstand me, I like to talk about my baby as much as any new mother, but how can I really hold a half hour debate with another adult about the pros and cons of different types and brands of nappies.
I can find myself getting worked up and envious of the nappies another mum is using. Why do I care about: nappy liners, nappy bags, nappy covers, cloth nappies (pocket or all-in-one?!) or disposables.
Who is this person (me) that can talk all day to her mother-in-law about nappy rash and the differing generational cures? Or the price of Aldi nappies versus Huggies. Or which shop actually has the specials this week.
I don't know but I have done all these things and still do! Aargh!
I remember when I used to have shoe envy. Now there was a real sin. If you are going to sin you may as well do it right. Now most of my shoes are stored in the roof and if I want a specific pair I have to climb in past the cat and the cobwebs to pull out the boxes and find the right one. So I generally don't bother and end up wearing the same pair every day. Who is this style-less girl, sorry I mean woman?
I guess the moral of this little rant is that the envy never goes away, you just transfer it to the most relevant part of your life at the time. Like right now, I am envious of those of you who have a lovely, consecutive eight hours sleep to look forward to tonight.
But that's another story!
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
What I've learned about Poo
An amazing subject at any time don't you think? Now, with nearly nine months of nappies under my belt I feel that I am somewhat qualified to comment on baby poo. Ha!
At times I feel like an animal tracker. The amount of information you think you can garner from a nappy is amazing! There can be quite the rainbow of colours. The variation in consistency is quite fantastic.
But what does it all mean? My baby bible, the book Baby Love, tells me that for a newborn this is all quite normal. But what about a nine month old? From what I can gather it's either a food reaction (but this is usually accompanied by a red bottom) or again, completely normal.
Back to square one. All I've learned from my own experience is that if the child seems happy most of the time, then I don't worry.
However, this week was a little different. I got a call from the child care centre on Friday to come and check on Maeve as she was very upset and scratching herself, not to mention the numerous poos she had done.
When I got there it looked like my little girl had been in a cat fight and lost! She had a huge gouge across her cheek and all self-inflicted. Poor little bugger. She had also not slept, eaten or drunk anything all morning so was quite upset. Obviously a little upset tummy right?
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I breast fed her and she calmed quite quickly. It's amazing what boobies can do isn't it? And yes, she has teeth - more on this later...
She still has some strange things happening in her nappy on the third day, but apart from that is quite happy. What do I do? I suppose as a "good-mother" I take her to the GP. But part of me is thinking I am over-reacting. I guess I could be, but you know that I will take her. It's just what you do or else you find yourself feeling forever guilty! Even if she is fine.
Hopefully the moral of this story will be that I have learned nothing from baby poo and that Maeve is just creating some variety in her little life to keep us all on our toes. That seems to be the usual outcome of each day with her in our lives!
At times I feel like an animal tracker. The amount of information you think you can garner from a nappy is amazing! There can be quite the rainbow of colours. The variation in consistency is quite fantastic.
But what does it all mean? My baby bible, the book Baby Love, tells me that for a newborn this is all quite normal. But what about a nine month old? From what I can gather it's either a food reaction (but this is usually accompanied by a red bottom) or again, completely normal.
Back to square one. All I've learned from my own experience is that if the child seems happy most of the time, then I don't worry.
However, this week was a little different. I got a call from the child care centre on Friday to come and check on Maeve as she was very upset and scratching herself, not to mention the numerous poos she had done.
When I got there it looked like my little girl had been in a cat fight and lost! She had a huge gouge across her cheek and all self-inflicted. Poor little bugger. She had also not slept, eaten or drunk anything all morning so was quite upset. Obviously a little upset tummy right?
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I breast fed her and she calmed quite quickly. It's amazing what boobies can do isn't it? And yes, she has teeth - more on this later...
She still has some strange things happening in her nappy on the third day, but apart from that is quite happy. What do I do? I suppose as a "good-mother" I take her to the GP. But part of me is thinking I am over-reacting. I guess I could be, but you know that I will take her. It's just what you do or else you find yourself feeling forever guilty! Even if she is fine.
Hopefully the moral of this story will be that I have learned nothing from baby poo and that Maeve is just creating some variety in her little life to keep us all on our toes. That seems to be the usual outcome of each day with her in our lives!
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