Absent-Minded Mom
By raincoasterWhat time is it? Overshare time, my friends! It’s time the ol’ raincoaster dished the dirt on her beloved Mom; and why? you ask, or perhaps you don’t but just play along, willya?
Because of this bracelet from tefsjewels on Etsy, passed along by a sharp-eyed and practical reader:
It’s designed with a charm which you move every time you nurse, so that you always know when the next feeding is due, even if the baby has been squalling like a flock of seagulls for the past ten hours straight and you’re trying to get by on two and one-half minutes sleep, a situation not unknown in households which have recently welcomed the pitter-patter of little feet. Why two of those feet never belong to a butler is one of life’s little injustices, but that’s as may be.
Should you breastfeed you can, of course, switch it from wrist to wrist. It’s flexy like that.
But what does this have to do with raincoaster’s mom? I can hear you ask or maybe not, but humour me, okay? You’ve come this far.
My mother, you see, was as absent-minded as she was over-cautious, and so as a baby I enjoyed approximately as many feedings as the entire livestock of the local zoo. If my mother had been possessed of such a piece of personal bling, I might have started life with a keener understanding of portion sizes and an easier time of it, when I finally decided to heave myself into an upright position and attempt a waddle.
Which I am sure I did only because the kitchen wasn’t going to come when I called it.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I could see this being really handy for a mom of twins who is breastfeeding.
August 16th, 2008 at 12:52 am
The only downside is, forgetting to move the charm.