Comments on: I see babies

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:42:55 +0000

p.s. FWIW, I just turned 38 2 weeks ago.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:40:59 +0000

I am mere weeks (hopefully) away from meeting my baby! Given that he/she is not even ‘on the outside’ yet, it’s hard to conceive of her/him not being a baby anymore, but I know that time will come sooner than I want it to, so thanks for the reminder to appreciate babyhood. I get the feeling I’m going to need more reminding – it’s all a bit daunting before I even begin!

By: Judy

Judy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:46:30 +0000

My son was the cuddly one of my two. He’s 15 now and will tolerate me putting an arm around him and even lying next to him on the couch as long as I restrain myself. But he used to fit so nicely between my shoulder and my hip. He was such a good nestler.
My daughter is a long, skinny 12 year old. She’ll cuddle with me and is so satisfyingly narrow, it’s fun to hug her. But she used to have the most delicious soft plump abdomen…

When I was around 35 I was visiting my parents. Dad was making Mom a martini and I asked if I could have one, too. He checked with my mom to see if his baby was old enough for such a grown up drink.

By: Keryn

Keryn — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:09:50 +0000

I see them, too!

My “baby” turns 6 on Friday. Wah.

By: Emma H.

Emma H. — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:27:57 +0000

My first private joke? Every time Sandy called me lucky. Her backside was permanently damp from knee to bum to other knee. A piss horseshoe, I thought.

She was one foster mother who wanted to “slap the scowl from my pretty face because I was lucky to have her.”

Piss horseshoe lucky.

I’m glad to hear a BEAW reader is involved with social services.

It is so important, Vanessa.

By: KellyS

KellyS — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:57:56 +0000

Ha. I was just looking at an early Christmas catalog tonight, and the baby toys (and playing babies) gave me a tiny pause.

My little guy is nearly 4, his big sister nearly 7. I’m done. Also: last month at the mall, I passed a harried mom trying to strap a bucking, screaming toddler into his stroller, and realized — that part of my life is OVER. I NEVER have to do that again!

By: andrea

andrea — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:39:30 +0000

I am five months pregnant with my first baby and this post reminds me to enjoy enjoy enjoy!

Oh, and I am 34 years old and my mother still calls me the baby.

By: Beth Hannon Fuller

Beth Hannon Fuller — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:28:47 +0000

I am “in the middle of it” right now….and trying to keep my sanity and enjoy that mushed banana lost in some chubby baby leg fold smell all the while trying to keep my two boys from light sabering each other to death….I wonder if I’ll look back and think ahhh..those were the days…right now, it’s Anna-10months, Colin almost 3 and James-5.
Whoa, whose idea was that?

By: Vicki

Vicki — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:51:24 +0000

You could always donate time at the local hospital to hold babies during the day and help change diapers, etc. They don’t mind having people volunteer to hold babies. They just background check you first…which is fine.
See, something to do with your spare time so as not to feel bored or boring…

By: Heather G.

Heather G. — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:53:40 +0000

I have an eight-month-old, and her babyhood is flying by. When I see newborns, I am sad that I will never have one again (Tubal ligation).