(This one is for Dirk and Felicia because I'm thinking about them a lot these days)
I've just finished my last 'preparation for birth' antenatal class for a while. I'm not quite at my best, having been hauled out of my bed at 4am this morning to care for another Team's client in labour. (Despite being designated as 'high risk' because she is an insulin dependent diabetic, with all the prerequisite drips and
continuous monitoring that entails, she had a lovely normal birth sat on a birthing stool - the first birth my student has witnessed in her training).So, we're chatting about 'life after birth' - is there any? I always invite a couple of new parents to this session as the resident experts to be quizzed. We've just got on to the topic of crying babies and how to cope - and I'm saying that there are no parents in the world, ever, who have not felt like chucking the baby out the window in despair at some time or another, even if momentarily. And that, under these circumstances, it is OK to leave the baby in one room at one end of the house then take yourself to the other end of the house to calm down with a nice cup of tea (english way) or even nicer glass of wine (international) before venturing back to be with the baby again. Or taking a shower is a good way of relaxing and drowning out the sound of crying. There was a pause after I'd said this. Then one Dad says "so let me get this straight - you're saying a shower is a good place to put the crying baby to drown out the sound?!".
The entire class degenerates into helpless laughter.
11 comments:
what a great story!
Oh that is classic , I BET they rolled with laughter LOL .
What a great job you have , guess it must have its down side but also so many times of joy
Brilliant! Lol!!!!
sounds like a plan to me!
.....but I'm not a parent!
Sounds a very good idea! At least thats one dad with a sense of humour, something he'll definitely need when baby arrives! ;)
Doh!
I managed to produce a few laughs in our classes too.
Good piece and thank you.
We are so close now...
I'm just so excited.
Ha! Good one :)
A friend called me one afternoon and said "My sons are driving me nuts, I feel like strangling them". I suggested she bring them to me before she did that and that she go relax for a few hours at the mall. She did, came back and had a nap. I didn't find the kids were so bad, but I found my friend had her smile back. Sometimes it's the parent that needs taking care of :)
well surely the shock of the water would stop its crying...ok only joking...it's only now he's 3 I want to throw mine out of the window, gently of course!
what a great story....hey I reckon you should meet up with my daughter and her family, they live in Devon, expecting their third baby and her husband goes Kayaking....sorted!
that's a great story. I can sympathise with screaming babies - hopefully we're nearly through that stage now with our two!!
Mwahaha! Not quite the best logic on his part.
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