tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post5241949102125020300..comments2024-03-26T13:46:42.738-05:00Comments on 4 Quarters, 10 Dimes: Advice for Expecting Parents, Part 1 of 3Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-28944375410324720352012-06-03T19:25:20.808-05:002012-06-03T19:25:20.808-05:00What "beat"? Sounds like a winner to me...What "beat"? Sounds like a winner to me. :)<br /><br />You do what you have to do to get the job done. Everything else is tactics.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-68563268611852563542012-06-03T16:14:25.580-05:002012-06-03T16:14:25.580-05:00Here's a real and true adventure in diaper cha...Here's a real and true adventure in diaper changing.<br /><br />I did something yesterday I’ve never done before. I didn’t set out to do anything unusual but one thing led to another and I found myself wiping one-year-old Jayden’s poopy butt while he stood on his head. Let me reiterate that when I started out changing his diaper that this was not my plan.<br /><br />My plan was to lay him on the changing area with the clean diaper under the appropriate area, take off his old diaper, wipe him down and apply the new diaper. Easy-peasy. I’ve done it hundreds of times. Jayden was not co-operative. I laid down the clean diaper. I laid Jayden on top of the clean diaper. Then Jayden rebelled. Like those protesters you see being manhandled by six or seven cops he began to writhe around and twist. I applied the proper amount of pressure to his chest to get him to lay still and got his soiled (“soiled” isn’t quite the correct word, something evoking an environmental hazard and WMDs would be better, perhaps “contaminated”) diaper off. This I could do one handed.<br /><br />Wiping down was another story. To wipe a baby down you need to hold their legs up over their stomach. When the baby is squirming violently you need to place one hand on their chest to hold their torso in place, another hand on their feet to hold to keep them out of the theatre of operations and then you can use your other hand to wipe them off. Due to a defect in creation/evolution I am only equipped with two hands so as Jayden squirmed I lifted his legs higher and higher as I wiped until finally he was standing on his head. This novelty appealed to him and he settled down enough to let me finish the job.<br /><br />I never even bothered to try to snap up his sleeper. I know when I’m beat.TimBohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16128235274340905534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-90118601539196605302011-11-07T12:44:59.327-06:002011-11-07T12:44:59.327-06:00Those studies have been pretty thoroughly discredi...Those studies have been pretty thoroughly discredited, actually.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-26489116656417970602011-11-07T09:20:44.892-06:002011-11-07T09:20:44.892-06:00I have a good friend whose son has Asperger's ...I have a good friend whose son has Asperger's syndrome (high functioning autism) She told me that there may have been a link between it and the vaccinations. However, if she had to do it again, despite the problems of raising a handicapped child, she' definitely vaccinate.Beatrice Desperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10843520699216089362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-59859995607018457232011-10-19T21:53:55.943-05:002011-10-19T21:53:55.943-05:00See, now - I need someone to write all this stuff ...See, now - I need someone to write all this stuff down for me for when I reach this point, just as I was asked to write stuff down for my soon-to-be-parent friends. :) Fortunately I've got time. I'd better have time.<br /><br />And good for Jonah! It's beyond cool to be there when the Firsts happen.<br /><br />I tried putting replacement diapers underneath the used ones beforehand a couple of times but somehow I never managed the knack for getting through that process without ending up with <i>two</i> used diapers instead of just one. After a couple of runthroughs of that, I just kept the new one handy on the side and tried to be quick about things.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-11581596603558407472011-10-19T20:40:10.332-05:002011-10-19T20:40:10.332-05:00Advice for Expecting Grandparents
You may enjoy b...<b>Advice for Expecting Grandparents</b><br /><br />You may enjoy being a parent, but being a grandparent is a whole other realm. An exponentially better realm. You will come to realize that the only reason to have children is to get Grandchildren and if you could do it all over again you will skip the having children part (eps. teenage girls) and just go straight to Grandchildren.<br /><br />You will find yourself telling cute anecdotes at work (20 month old Jonah said his first words in the park with me! "That's big!". True, happened last week, and telling this to complete strangers is my only reason for writing this). When you were just a parent you realized that nobody (other than close friends and relatives) particularly cared to see your baby pictures. As a grandparent you just don't care and will show them to the cop who is giving you a speeding ticket and anyone else foolish enough to stand still. A strange sort of insanity sets in and you believe nothing is as cute and wonderful as your Grandchildren (fortunately in my case my Grandchildren are far cuter than average).<br /><br />As far as <i>"Have a replacement diaper ready and waiting before you start"</i> goes. I always but the clean diaper under the used one before starting. Then if the need arises it can be brought into service immediately and it protects the changing surface.TimBohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16128235274340905534noreply@blogger.com