Go, Baby, Go!
Webhamster and I are in Jacksonville, Florida this week so that I can collect some data on the city-county consolidation for my dissertation. The flights here were, thankfully, uneventful for Cletus and me. I had been a bit worried because I watched one of those Discovery Health shows about amazing births in emergency circumstances, and there was a six-months pregnant woman who went into labor and had her baby on a flight from the Dominican Republic to NYC.
Cletus has been a traveling fetus. She has "been there" for the Indy 500 and U.S. Grand Prix from which 14 of the 20 cars withdrew. She has flown to Florida and has been to Nashville for more dissertation research. She'll be headed to Indianapolis, and will of course have several trips to Louisville.
I'd love to say that she's been somewhere really exotic, like my friend Abby and her then-fetus Finn, who went to Peru and the Galapagos Islands when she was five-and-a-half months pregnant, or Tiffany, who was in Paris with then-fetus Luc when she was at about the same stage. Luc has also been to Paris once out of utero, and he's only about 20 months old! I hope that Webhamster and I will be the kind of parents who continue to pursue our interests, such as travel, when Cletus breaks out of the pod. I know that kids require you to modify your lifestyle, but I think there can be a balance.
Cletus has been a traveling fetus. She has "been there" for the Indy 500 and U.S. Grand Prix from which 14 of the 20 cars withdrew. She has flown to Florida and has been to Nashville for more dissertation research. She'll be headed to Indianapolis, and will of course have several trips to Louisville.
I'd love to say that she's been somewhere really exotic, like my friend Abby and her then-fetus Finn, who went to Peru and the Galapagos Islands when she was five-and-a-half months pregnant, or Tiffany, who was in Paris with then-fetus Luc when she was at about the same stage. Luc has also been to Paris once out of utero, and he's only about 20 months old! I hope that Webhamster and I will be the kind of parents who continue to pursue our interests, such as travel, when Cletus breaks out of the pod. I know that kids require you to modify your lifestyle, but I think there can be a balance.
posted by webhamstress at 8:10 PM
2 Comments:
If you're lucky enough to have a baby who can sleep anywhere and through anything, travel and such can be ok. For the first few months, they are usually ok with going anyplace you go. But once they get into a good nap/food/play routine (around 7 months or so), it gets more and more difficult to vary from the routine. You'll notice that missing a feeding time or nap time with throw them into a spiral where it takes days to get them back on track. It's been this way with Zack, my nephews, and several friends with kids. There are always exceptions to the rule, though. But a good routine helps keep a young baby happy... or so it seems with us. Good luck. :D
Vodka on the nipples.
That's what I was told was the way to get baby adjusted to changing sleep/travel/food schedules.
I still have yet to figure out why putting vodka on my nipples would cause the baby to go to sleep whenever I wanted but it's sure worth a try.
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