Babies
bring about all sorts of experiences with them, and some of them are just
awkward. No matter how well you feel prepared for that bundle of joy, there
will come moments when you won’t know just what to do. Babies are particularly
good at causing scenes, and they can do that with a lot more than just random
screaming sessions. It all, of course, gets better with time but before then,
here are some of those moments you may never forget:
THE
WET SPOT ON YOUR SHIRT
If
you decide to breastfeed your baby, you will probably feel relieved when she
sucks for the first time and the milk flows. It may be a little painful at
first but you will be glad that you have enough milk to feed her. Then comes
the endless flow. As the baby won’t be feeding non-stop, the breasts may fill
up and well, spill. This is a good thing if your little one is constantly
hungry. What, however, you won’t be prepared for, is the overflow. Fancy
walking around with two big wet spots around your nipples. And they just keep
getting bigger, and that’s when you will jump into the nearest store, get some
breast pads then run to the washroom.
THE
HUMILIATING SMACK ON THE BOOB
One
day, you will let out your boob in public to feed your little cozy bundle of
joy and look down into their eyes with all the love and affection you can
muster only for the said bundle to lift their tiny hand and smack you hard on
the boob for it. Everyone will look at you and find it amusing, and the baby
will have driven their message home: “submit it faster next time.”
THE
POOPER
So,
one day you are out of fresh baby clothes and are changing your baby’s diaper and they won’t
stop crying. You decide to pick them up for a quick feed before fastening a
fresh diaper from your baby bag. You start nursing them and
two minutes later you smell poop. Before you know it, something warm and moist
is on your lap and when you realize what just happened, you want to scream.
Welcome to the wonderful world of motherhood.
THE
UNEXPECTED COLIC
This
is a clever way that babies use to control what their moms can and can’t do.
Take, for example, that cool night when you decide to treat yourself at a
Chinese restaurant you last visited when you still had cravings and a bulging
belly. The baby is calm and is even giggling in their car seat – until you pick
them up. The little one screams and kicks and yells and won’t take any amount
of soothing. Everyone is looking at you and you are made to understand that you
are a nuisance. You have to pick up your crying child and go back home.
Conclusively,
babies do have a mind of their own. Being a loving mother, however, you are
left with no choice but to clean up, forget all about it and perhaps even laugh
it out later.
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