Baby, Think It Over!!
I've taken a lot of stick for this, and I guess I can see why, but from a work point of view (and actually a personal point of view) it's been a really useful experience.
So, where were we? The morning she woke at 5:15 was quite difficult. I did everything I could think of to stop her crying, but she did just cry solidly for 45 minutes and suddenly stoppd. Very realistic, from what I know.
Most importantly I couldn't hear Neighbours!!! My priorities changed!!
Anyway, that morning whenever I tried to something useful, like college work, she'd start up again. So I had to give up on that!
I opted to wash, dry and put away the dishes and that passed without inciden, but anything requiring brain power or thinking - forget it!
I called a friend of mine who's due in 6 weeks and had a chat with her. I have to plan next week's session which is about the cost of brining a baby into the world and she invited me down for lunch. She wanted to see the baby! I thought about this and decided it was private, so I didn't mind.
I quickly realised that taking her out was going to be a military operation. I took the battery out as there was no way I was having it go off on the bus, and packed her in her box. I tried to remember to take everything with me, but when I got there, I realised I'd forgotten the ID tag that lets me check in to adminster care. I did take the controller though, so I gave her a demonstration of how it cries. She has an evil cat, so she wanted to see how the cat would be with it crying. It came and had a sniff round and left it alone, so we're condident she should be OK with the new baby, so that was useful.
Since then I haven't had her on, because I'm working all this weekend and to be honest that one day was pretty tiring! I probably won't switch her on again. I've been able to work out a lot of the difficulties involved in having a baby and have a new respect now for single mums who do it on their own. It's quite incredible.
There is a lad in the group who's doing this, so at least I can say to him that I've experienced taking it out, and I've experienced the stick he's going to get. A friend of mine wanted to see it today, but that involves being in public with it, which I'm not ready for. That's another point, I guess we give people a lot of stick when a real baby cries in public, but there isn't much a real mother can do.
There is a lot more I can do with this, but the stick I've taken has been enough, frankly.
If anyone is thinking about this project, I'd really recommend it
So, where were we? The morning she woke at 5:15 was quite difficult. I did everything I could think of to stop her crying, but she did just cry solidly for 45 minutes and suddenly stoppd. Very realistic, from what I know.
Most importantly I couldn't hear Neighbours!!! My priorities changed!!
Anyway, that morning whenever I tried to something useful, like college work, she'd start up again. So I had to give up on that!
I opted to wash, dry and put away the dishes and that passed without inciden, but anything requiring brain power or thinking - forget it!
I called a friend of mine who's due in 6 weeks and had a chat with her. I have to plan next week's session which is about the cost of brining a baby into the world and she invited me down for lunch. She wanted to see the baby! I thought about this and decided it was private, so I didn't mind.
I quickly realised that taking her out was going to be a military operation. I took the battery out as there was no way I was having it go off on the bus, and packed her in her box. I tried to remember to take everything with me, but when I got there, I realised I'd forgotten the ID tag that lets me check in to adminster care. I did take the controller though, so I gave her a demonstration of how it cries. She has an evil cat, so she wanted to see how the cat would be with it crying. It came and had a sniff round and left it alone, so we're condident she should be OK with the new baby, so that was useful.
Since then I haven't had her on, because I'm working all this weekend and to be honest that one day was pretty tiring! I probably won't switch her on again. I've been able to work out a lot of the difficulties involved in having a baby and have a new respect now for single mums who do it on their own. It's quite incredible.
There is a lad in the group who's doing this, so at least I can say to him that I've experienced taking it out, and I've experienced the stick he's going to get. A friend of mine wanted to see it today, but that involves being in public with it, which I'm not ready for. That's another point, I guess we give people a lot of stick when a real baby cries in public, but there isn't much a real mother can do.
There is a lot more I can do with this, but the stick I've taken has been enough, frankly.
If anyone is thinking about this project, I'd really recommend it