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Awwww. Off topic a bit, is that a Tonkinese kitty in the picture? She's so pretty!
Ahhhh, the practice baby. The one for whom you actually cleaned the pacifier when it fell on the floor. After that the five second rule was totally in effect. By the third it was the five day rule. My grandmother nearly had a stroke when she saw me suck the pacifier to "get the germs off!"
I have no doubt that you were/are one of the best mommies ever!
You treat the first one like glass, the second like rubber.
This is why I know I could never be a human parent - I freak out over my cats' health and well-being far too much. If I'm like that with felines, can you imagine how I'd be with my own babies??? *shivers*
I don't know who I feel sorry for the most. The baby? No, she was constantly petted and tended. Mamacita? Well, maybe, because she was close to basket case-worthy. So it comes down to the cat. But wait, Siamese can be mean.
So I guess it's Zappa. The second-born gets no props. Grief from the first-born, but that's about it.
I sooo know what you mean - my poor 22 year old..... the 19 year old reaped all of the benefits of the experienced Mom..
My biggest fear about caring for a newborn was the umbilical stump. What if I accidentally ripped it off? Would my baby bleed to death? What if it gets infected? What if it never falls off and she can never take a real bath?
I worked myself into such a tizzy over it that I made an appointment to see the doctor when she was about ten days old. It was all there, intact, when we left the house. When the doctor asked me to take her diaper off in the exam room, the stump was gone. Found it on her jammies. I felt like such an idiot.
Heheheheh. I had all kinds of little cousins around when I was a teenager, so I was used to the little flailing arms & floppy necks. It wasn't the physical care side I was worried about.
I was 31 when Miss Peanut was born, and I had wanted children since I was, no joke, 16. I had sooooo much maternal love that I was afraid I'd smother the baby with it. Consequently, I suffered from such severe anxiety that I couldn't be 15 feet away from the baby at any time, even in my own house. It was debilitating.
I got better, but I know what you mean about that overwhelming surge of motherlove.
My third child laments the fact that she has hardly any photos of her as a baby, while the first two have 500 and 300 respectively. I was just as scared as you to bathe my first; so sure I would break him in half or scald his skin or drown him. He survived my lame first dabbles in motherhood and grew to 6'3" in the process.
Heck, my son was 2 months old before it occured to me I needed to wash behind his ears... it was pretty gnarly back there by the time I realized it...
I stopped sterilizing my son's bottles and toys (yes, me too) since a month or two.. and he turns two on monday 
So you're not the only one LOL
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I do believe the kids survived quite well. 
-G
AHH!! You just described my wife. To the Tee. She is just like that. It's almost maddening. On the other hand its probably better than my methods. For example my wife will sit and try to spunge wipe the soap off our daughters face and hair at bath time. Left to myself I think I'd have just dunked her little head under the water. Hey they're fine if you don't hold em down there right?
The Lumpy
You had a diagram?! — so lucky. I could use one. I am the worst baby-bather ever. I'm tempted to not bathe the kid at all till she's old enough to do it herself.
Oh my gosh, I REMEMBER the first bath with the first baby. I actually called my mom and asked her to come over because I was afraid I'd do it wrong!
Wonderful post that brings back memories. Don't they look so gangly in the very beginning? And then, they chub up and look sturdy within weeks. I was SO careful with my first- and he rolled off the bed onto the hardwood floor anyway. He's 25 and I still can't tell whether it did any permanent damage.
And yes, the cats fell rapidly from grace.
So...we're talking germs eh? Where exactly is that busy box again? BAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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