Conference turris::womannotes-v2

    congratulations charles
    
    and hugs
    
    Bonnie

    Very best congratulations and good wishes, Chas!  To all three of you!
    
    See ya again when yez recover.
    
    						=maggie

    
    Um, eh, Charles, sweet 'ums...
    
    Now that you've bumped up from 2-1/2 to 3, do I get a new & improved
    postcard???
    
    
    Me (& Bonnie) is waitin'!  And baiting the Doth is NOT fair play.
    
    Hope the joy of parenting makes every bit of lost sleep worthwhile.
    
    Hugs,
    
    'ren

    I'm WORKING on it! I just have more interesting things to do, that's all.
    
    	(Like stare at my baby for hours on end with a foolish grin
    	on my face...)
    
    	-- Charles

    I take it it's PI to ask whether Kai is a girl or a boy? :-)
    
    Congratulations, anyway!
    
    Lorna
    

    	RE: 1085.5
    
    	Lorna,
    
    	I was thinking the same thing.
    
    	Well, no matter really. I love any baby that's willing
    	to let me fuss over her/him.
    
    	Charles,
    
    	Congratulations!
    
    	Scott

    It's a boy.
    
    -Jody
    

    
    You mean "he's a boy"...
    
    Babys aren't inanimate.. at least not for long.

    As you probably guessed, the ambiguity was no accident...
    
    besided Kai isn't a "boy" or "girl" yet, he's just a beautiful little
    baby - currently blissfully asleep on my lap.
    
    	*<sigh>*
    	-- Charles

    um, Charles,
    
    when you change diapers there is a definite difference between boys
    and girls, girls don't 'catch you by surprise'!
    
    hugs
    
    Bonnie

    <<< Note 1085.10 by WMOIS::B_REINKE "if you are a dreamer, come in.." >>>
    
>    when you change diapers there is a definite difference between boys
>    and girls, girls don't 'catch you by surprise'!
    

just so.. in fact our 3 week old boy has 'caught you by surprise'
(its our first!)

me
my wife
a midwife

nappy (diaper) changing is now a double act in our
house ... one changes him (either of us.. even I can change 
him !).. and the other stands by with a pad of cotton wool
just in case Graham decides to do his fountain imitation !!!

    Reminds me of the time I took Becky in for her 6 week check up, I had
    to undress her totally to be weighed, and after wards, I turned to the
    nurse and said "Is it okay to put a diaper back on her now?", she
    chuckled and said "If it was a boy, you wouldn't be asking".. I had NO
    idea what she meant!...  It wasn't until maybe 10 years later, when I
    watched a friend diaper her newborn boy, that I discovered what the
    nurse actually was talking about!...
    
    

    in re .12
    
    We worked out a technique that was quite successful when our oldest
    was a baby. As soon as you open up the wet or soiled diaper, lay
    a dry daiper across the baby boy's groin area.
    
    Bonnie

    Either you all or I have peculiar boys.  I had this happen only once in
    six years of diapers for two kids.  Anyhow, isn't the likelyhood of
    this phenomenon (per unit-undiapered-time) sex neutral, with only the
    direction of expression being notable for boys?
    
    			- Bruce

    You've never got it right in the face, Bruce?  I sure have!  But not
    from my girls.
    
    							=maggie

 Kacie has managed to soak daddy on at least one rather soggy and flabbergasting
occasion. :-}

 the Doctah

 Hint: place your body to the side of a baby girl, out of the "line of fire. :-)

    =maggie has the right of it..
    
    my girls may have wet the table but never the shirt or face of
    the diaper changer (or the person standing 6 feet away)!
    
    Bonnie :-)

    .16 > You've never got it right in the face, Bruce?  
    
    Like I said, only once - right in the nose.  
    
    And the "only once" wasn't due to any special precautions.  With my
    boys, at least, this was a really negligable hazard compared, say, with
    spitting up.
    
    			- Bruce

             <<< Note 1085.19 by RDVAX::COLLIER "Bruce Collier" >>>


>    this was a really negligable hazard compared, say, with
>    spitting up.
    

such joy we have to look forward too  


 :-)   but really we would'nt swap him for anything 

    Uhm....I'm no expert, here, but a friend of mine who raised 2 boys
    always plunked a folder diaper in a strategic location when she was
    changing them, while they were "Between Diapers", as it were....seemed
    to work for her...
    

    	The only time Ryan ever "caught me" with a diaper off was during
    	his first in-office visit to the pediatrician - the doctor and
    	I *both* got sprayed...  ;^)
    
    	The fire-hose effect is amazing...!
    
    	When he was older, though, the funniest thing about changing him
    	was the automatic way he would flip over and try to RUN AWAY as
    	soon as the diaper was removed.
    
    	I learned to grab hold of an ankle at the moment before I took
    	the diaper off.  After he flipped over and tried to run away,
    	I would replace the old diaper with a new one (while still
    	retaining a good grasp on his ankle.)
    
    	Then, I would gently flip him back over onto the new diaper (and
    	would clean him while he struggled to flip over and run away again.)
    
    	As soon as the new diaper was fastened, he would stop struggling
    	(and we would both get up and go about our regular business.)
    
    	It was just a game he liked to play at diaper-time (and he would
    	laugh wickedly the whole time.)  ;^)  
    
    	Ahh, memories...

Boy, I can't say this string is making me eager to have a baby!  :-)

And (even though I said it privately once already) congratulations to
the three of you!

D!, childless for quite some time more I would expect

    Kai managed to spray the nurse who was trying to take his vital signs -
    about 1/2 hour after he was born... :-) boy was HE surprised (so was I)!
    
    I've already changed quite a few of Kai's diapers - some at 2am. It's
    no big deal - even the dirty ones aren't bad since he's breastfeeding
    (that was certainly a pleasant surprise - a bonus side effect of
    breastfeeding!) I've also had to change shirts at least once after he
    missed the burp rag and got me.
    
    Diana you just don't know what you're missing! I wouldn't trade the dirty
    diapers, the 2am feedings, the spitups for anything. Wierd huh? I probably
    wouldn't be so sanguine if there weren't compensating advantages...
    
    OBTW - I've gotten "soaked" by little girls too...
    
    	-- Charles

    in re .21
    
    that was the technique that I was referring to!
    
    and in re spitting up...
    
    my second son was a champ at that...threw up all over the social
    worker when he was placed with us, and again when we went to court!
    and got his father and I many times.. once when he was riding on
    his dads shoulders he threw up all over his head!
    
    nice kid!
    
    (off to college in the fall! amazing how time flies!)
    
    and hugs again to Charles
    
    you've got lots of wonderful times ahead of you!
    
    Bonnie

    I guess I was lucky!  Melissa never spit up on me, and never "sprayed"
    me.  (I still can't figure out how a girl could) (*My* baby was
    perfect!) ha-ha
    
    Lorna
    

    re: .23 by D!

�                           -< I'll adopt 'em at 18 >-


    Mine's 17, is that close enough.  He's yours if the price is right!
    
    8-) 8-)

    ps to .-1
    
    Congrats to mother, father, & son.
    
    Cheers
    	Bob

    Having taught junior high, I'll take the baby, thank you.
    
    Just clean 'em up first! And I'll give 'em back for you to clean
    up *again*. 
    
    I don't do windows, diapers, or spit-up. ;-)
    

    
    	My son never spit up as a baby - he burped pretty loud, but never
    	spit anything up.
    
    	When he got older, though (well past the baby stage) - he seemed
    	to be able to throw up without much of a reason.
    
    	Such a nice kid, though - when he started feeling sick, he would
    	walk PAST the bathroom to where *I* was, to let me know before it
    	happened.  (That way, I wouldn't have far to go when it came to
    	cleaning up, I guess.)  ;^)
    
    	It sounds awful, but even sick kids are pretty lovable...
    

    Congrads! Come join us at HELPME::PARENTING.
    
    Kate
    

Congratulations, Charles and family!

Evan was not much of a problem with squirting.  However, recently he was
sitting on the potty and for the first time he urinated while sitting there.
He was so surprised that he immediately jumped up and yelled, "Diaper!"

*sigh.  A new way to get sprayed...  ;-)

         Carol

    Carol
    
    some potty chairs have shields on them, but we found that having
    our sons sit backwards on the chair or toilet, or teaching them
    to hold their penis down as they urinated prevented accidents.
    
    Bonnie
    
    :-)
    
    brings back memories

    Our potty had a removable pee shield, too.  But I remember reading
    somewhere (probably Penelope) about the risk of an uncomfortable
    accident that would be quite off-putting toward the further happy use
    of the potty.  So ours didn't get used, which really was no problem. 
    But hey, what's going on here?  This isn't =Parenting=!

    Yes but this is a 'topic of interest to women'!!!
    
    :-)
    
    bj

    Depends on who cleans the potty.
    
    Dondi