Yes, I am a very bad blogger. I really want to write more often, and I will try very hard to do so in the future. I also got my lovely web developer to add a blog page to my website, so at some point soon I’m going to move this over to sarahm.com.
But for now…
Hello! And happy Halloween!
I have been challenged by Lauren Myracle to face one of my fears. I was supposed to do it by the end of the day.
That did not happen.
The fear will have to be faced next week. Once Gimme a Call has been turned in and once I am no longer sick. (Performing my challenge while sick is actually dangerous to the subject of my challenge, so it's not a totally lame excuse.)
What is the fear I will face?
Normally it would be riding a bike. You can see here pics.livejournal.com/sarah_mlynowski/pic/0
At the moment, I can't try riding a bike.
At the moment there is something I find even more terrifying.
It's changing a diaper.
Yes, changing a diaper scares me. How does one keep the baby from rolling off the changing table? How does one tape up the diaper so that it doesn't fall off yet doesn't hurt baby's bottom?
On a scale of one to ten, how gross will it be?
Fortunately, changing a diaper is something I must learn how to do...by March 4.
This is because I'm five months pregnant.
Yay!
(Look at that, Lauren! I've just faced a fear even bigger than changing a diaper....mentioning being prego on the internet.)
But there you have it. Now is not the best time for me to experiment with bike riding. Or rollerblading. Or the elliptical machine. Or getting off the couch.
Now back to the diaper thing...a lovely writer friend has offered to teach me how to change a diaper. There will be no video, because the lovely writer friend does not want images of her lovely new baby floating cyberspace. But there will be photos of my expressions while trying to change the diaper.
But it must wait until next week.
Forgive me, Lauren!
xxx
Sarah
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And really, the diaper changing isn't the part that's scary....it's what happens after three weeks of sleep deprivation when the horror begins. ; )
And changing diapers is fun ! :-) I don't have kids of my own, but enough tiny cousins, nieces and nephews to get used to :-)
In case anyone is wondering what happened to me...I'm still sick. STILL. I cannot shake this cold! It got better for a few days during the Gimme a Call crunch but is now back in full force. Blah.
xxx
1. Repeated exposure
You and your husband are going to be changing so many diapers (newborns dirty lots of them), that you'll be an old hand within a few days.
2. Newborns can't roll.
Most babies figure out how to do this sometime around four months, and you can change Baby on the floor to be extra safe if you want.
3. Amazing advances in diaper technology
Those little tabs on the disposables are more like velcro than Scotch tape, so you won't tape the baby.
4. When it's your own baby, it's not as gross.
Really. Even their little farts seem adorable.
u need 2 blog more, seriously ;)