sábado, 22 de enero de 2011

Do babies need toothbrushes?

New parents coming into a baby shop. It's like tuna babies walking into a sushi restaurant. We couldn't be more naive. We started with an open question. What do we need to have home for the baby? This kind of opening should have made any bonus driven shop assistant chill with pleasure. Czech shops assistants though, are generally not bonus driven, and therefore they don't chill with pleasure. This concrete shop assistant shrugged her shoulders, made a vague gesture with her hands pointing at the shop behind her and left us on our own. Of course we didn't get further as to buy a set of baby pajamas.

Then we moved on to another shop and after a bit of insistence a lady agreed to help us. Then yes, it was more or less as I expected. We threw into the bag and pay without questioning everything the lady suggested we may need. No thinking process involved. No wonder why a baby would need a toothbrush or why we needed a set of especially tiny clothes (is it bad for the baby if the pajama is a bit longer than it should?) We spent a lot of money, we probably bought a lot of stuff we will never use and we were so happy when we left the shop we could kiss the shop assistant. Yes, new parents are a bit stupid.

Pregnancy symptoms. Soon it is my last visit in the gynecologist and first in the hospital. I guess it is the moment to start panicking about giving birth.

Mother instinct. 2 I Still do not like crying babies. Specially crying babies in restaurants. Actually, I am not sure why I'm supposed to suddenly like crying babies. What is the hormone I am missing?

1 comentario:

  1. The point is that mothers are not supposed to like crying babies, mother instinct should command you to try everything to make them stop. After millions of years of human evolution, it is called "taking care". Don't worry, you are on the right way ;)

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