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not helping the baby fever...
I'm off for the summer (ah, the joys of teaching!) but I'm starting to get bored during the day-- I've tried little projects, planted a garden, read, gone to the pool/beach, but most of the time I'm just filling up the day waiting for DH to get home from work! I looked for part time work (not at a daycare, figured I should take some time off from preschoolers and kindergartners for the first time in 5 years!), but everything was taken by college kids who don't mind working weekends!
So today I was looking into volunteer opportunities in my area and I applied to be a cuddler at a local hospital! So hopefully in a few weeks I'll go through all the paperwork and I can spend at least part of my days shnuggling with newborns! Has anyone else done this? I'm super excited, but like the title says, this is probably NOT going to help with my baby fever! haha
Re: not helping the baby fever...
LOL Ten bucks says you're knocked up by Labor Day.
I've never done it, but it sounds fantastic!
PLUS, when they spit up on you, maybe it'll gross you out enough so that it deters your baby fever for a little bit!! And just think of all the crying and screaming!!!
I think it's really sweet that you're doing that!!
Stu, after working with little ones as long as I have, believe me, spit up is the thing that I would MOST like to have accidentally plop onto my clothes! haha
TMI- but I was working at a daycare in college and one of my kiddos was sick, so I'm holding him while we're waiting for his dad to come get him. He's coughing and coughing so I rub his back and then hold him in front of me so I can wipe his nose, and just like that he sneezes and- BAM- snot right IN my mouth! I just stood there in shock for a minute and then he started crying, so there was nothing to do except go right back to consoling him while getting someone to grab me mints, a toothbrush, anything! haha
Duh, you work with kids anyway... I'm slow today!!
And your snot story grosses me out!!! I gag way too easily about bodily stuff, so I'm probably going to be a horrible mother. I dog-sat my best friend's dogs while she was in Israel for the summer and one of them threw up on her hard-wood floors.... just trying to clean that up, made ME throw up, so then I had to clean up both of our messes, which only made things exponentially worse. They say that it's different when it's your own child, but I don't know about all that.
Matt used to gag whenever he tried to scoop out the litter box, but he's a pro now.
You'll probably get over it with some practice.
Meganjane, I do too... I do too....
I don't think so Kelly... with a giant dog and 4 cats, I have to deal with the occasional mess, and it never gets any easier. Adam made me throw up while I was driving once because he farted in the car. Then of course, he started throwing up because I was... we're going to be absolutely hopeless as parents!!
If I threw up every time Greg farted, it would be like a full time job!
I can just picture you two trying to change a diaper and both throwing up by the changing table... oh man, you two could have a reality show! hahaha
Oh, it's the same way with Adam!! I think it was just the fact that the windows were up and it snuck up on me. Plus, I wasn't feeling too great anyway, so that just made things worse!! Adam and I are going to be like the dad on America's Funniest Videos where he's in full haz-mat gear... gas mask and all!!
Ok, how we do start a MeganJane pregnancy pool? I'm in for a BFP by Labor Day as well. Who's good at doing odds?
My best friend's husband has this weird thing about boogers. The idea of boogers grosses him out to such an extent that he will vomit if you keep repeating the word booger, or snot, or any other variation. He can change a poopy diaper, he can clean up baby vomit, but god forbid one of his nieces has a cold and a drippy nose. This is such a phobia of his that his coworkers (he is a firefighter) gave him a birthday card this year that they had all signed, and then each of them wiped a booger in it. So basically he got a birthday card filled with about 20 different boogers. Yes, I know, guys are disgusting...but whoever came up with that idea is clearly brilliant, because I am secretly a 14 year old boy and this kind of humor is right up my alley. Anyway, he spent the ENTIRE AFTERNOON vomiting and they ended up having to send him home. Ha.
Holy crap! hahahaha! and if Greg knew that there was any kind of pregnancy poll he would opt out of sex for a year! He totally doesn't have baby fever at all!
Oh. My. Gosh. This thread had me BUSTING UP!!! Bwahahaha on all the fart/booger/vomit talk! I have to say, It'd be a full time job for me to vomit every time Matt farted as well.
In a related story, my 4 y.o. son just tonight, kind of half-squatted and slightly lifted one leg as he farted. I screamed, "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! You're doing it just like Matt!!!!!" We were ROLLING on the floor laughing it was so funny.
I'm a booger-phobe as well. I used to work at a daycare & we were out on the playground. One kid came up to me and said, "Look Miss Tina!" and on tip of his finger at the end of his outstretched hand was this GARGANTUAN slimy green booger. I got a lump and that kind of drippy saliva in the back of my throat like when you're about to throw up. I said, "Oh hang on, I'll get a tissue." Turned around to grab the tissue and right when I turned back around, I saw him put it in his mouth. GAAAAAAAAAAG (I'm actually gagging just typing it.) It was soooo disgusting. I told my co-teacher that I'd happily clean up any poop messes if she'd deal with the facial fluids from then on out. EWWW
Married May 1st, 2010
And I totally meant to say that sounds like SUCH fun, and I bet it will make your baby fever soooo much worse! Hope you get on there, it'll be a really cool experience I think!
Married May 1st, 2010