Hello...? Hello? Is this thing on...? Any one in there....?

[callistra]

We just had Mark II of parenting class tonight. I tell you, the rest of them may as well be asleep. I know I sometimes frighten people with the intensity of my listening, but at least they can tell I'm still alive.

I just wonder if their children will be equally accepting and turnip like. They do realise, don't they, that in only a few short months they are going to have a screaming, pooing, bawling, sobbing, loving, pissing, delicate ball of fluff which will wake them up ever four hours if they are lucky and every hour if they are not, and they won't have TIME to learn anything new then?

Or do they expect they will have a perfect child that will help THEM to do the right thing and keep it happy? Forgetting that a child's view of bliss is sucking on an opium placenta and bobbing happily in a warm (but funny tasting) world?

It's obvious they don't know what they're doing, neither do I, but at least I am trying to find out before hand!

Anyway. Enough of that! Back to ripping recipes for my cook book for my bro.
:-)

Comments

[liluri.livejournal.com]

No they do not realise the intesity of the first few months of parenthood, they will however get a short sharp shock. Then they will run screaming to Ngala and their health fund to save their lives :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/doctor_k_/]

And at about week 6 or 7 they will turn up to their local emergency department late in the evening saying "there's something wrong with my baby. It's irritable and keeps crying. It's been this way since birth"

and there'll be nothing wrong with the baby, but 6 or 7 weeks seems to be some sort of crucial point for sleep deprivation and exhaustion.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Apparently it's around then that breastfeeding hits it's peak and becomes much much easier....

:-)

So what do you do? What can you do? Tell them to go and see their midwives/obs/mothersgroup/whatever?

[http://users.livejournal.com/doctor_k_/]

I check their baby thoroughly, and reassure them gently that nothing seems wrong (unless there is something wrong, or the baby has reflux). I mention Ngala. I ask about their community support, child health nurse etc.

Often (if we have beds) I'll admit them "for observation", mainly so the mum can have a bit of time with the paeds nurses, who can speak gently and reassuringly to them over the course of several hours.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

until you and Liluri mentioned Ngala on this thread, I had never heard of them.

:-)

[liluri.livejournal.com]

It's tops, you have any sleeping issues, talk to your doctor and then ring up your health fund *grin* and it's really popular and sounds super helpful- Dr K would know more than me I suspect

[divaflip.livejournal.com]

hey, did you get a chance to check out the recipe that I sent you?

[callistra.livejournal.com]

I have salivated over it...but not actually tried it yet
:-)

[divaflip.livejournal.com]

oh well - one of the best things about it is how easy and quick it is. modify to suite your tastes.

reheats well too, great for taking to work etc (well, for chesh I guess, not you ;-) )