If you don't want to read a gripe, move on to the next blog.
You know how you can say "What's on your mind?" on Facebook? Some of the recent things that have been posted on my wall have riled me just a little.
Last week, a friend posted how she couldn't wait for her "son", (and she has already given the baby a name.....my sister-in-law was assured she was expecting a boy, and had a beautiful baby girl,) anyway, I digress. She posted how she wanted to hold her babe and nurture him, she's still got around 8 weeks to go, so babe would be premature and more than likely have to be put in an incubator if he had been born then. So I just put how as much as she was looking forward to baby arriving, she shouldn't wish a premature birth, for various reasons. I got a snippy reply, and I mustn't have been the only one to post similar, as she took the post down. This person has moaned all through her pregnancy...publicly on Facebook. She just needs a copy of Gordon Bourne's Pregnancy, then she would know what to expect.
The second "mum", (and she is actually a Mum and has been for 17 months,) posted that her baby's nappy had exploded after only 16 hours of wearing! Why was the baby in the same nappy for 16 hours, she then went on to say that nappies usually lasted 20 hours before they were due to explode.
I was taken aback by this. Surely that poor baby has a very sore bottom. I'm not speaking out of turn here, as I have three children, well they are all young adults now, but mine were only left, at the longest for around 8 hours, without a change, and that was if they slept right through.
I blame disposable nappies for the "it only lasted 16 hours" comment, as they just get heavier and heavier as the resin in them absorbs the urine. But what the manufacturers don't say is that the filling can react with urine, as it did with my daughter. She had disposable nappies for a holiday we went on, and I decided to use the pack up when we returned home. I carried on changing her as I usually did, when she was fed, when it was obvious she was wet, or dirty, but she developed a rash and I can only conclude it was from the disposable nappies. They don't let the skin breathe as easily as a terry nappy does. I stopped using them there and then, and her sore bottom cleared up immediately.
So....prospective parents should go on ante natal classes, to learn the basic good practice of caring for a baby. And possibly to have explained how heart breaking having a premature baby can be.
I've finished having a moan now.
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