MNBrian
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When you tell people you're having a baby, you hear some pretty horrifying stories. People say stuff like:
"My baby had horrible colic, so I didn't sleep for 96 days straight. And then I was hospitalized."
or
"My baby pooped all over my face every time I changed his diaper. It was like a rocket firing. He'd kick the new diaper off the changing table, and I'd bend over every time, and he'd just fire right into my eyes."
The stories all sounded awful. People talk about how they almost died, or how their child almost died, or how they lost all semblance of free time, or dignity, or how their life was covered in literal feces. And yet, every story ends the same way... "But you'll love it."
As a soon to be parent, I remember wondering why people were torturing me with these stories. I mean, what in the world about this will I love?! Is this some kind of global hazing, like joining a special fraternity?
But after I had my kid, I realized that these moments that were being shared, they were the beautiful moments. Sure they were terrible at the time, but my goodness they stuck, and the stories these parents were sharing were really stories about how they fell in love with their kids despite the almost dying or the poop covered faces. And now, a month in, I get it.
So in honor of the horribly beautiful things that parents go through, I'm going to send an all Cuban Cigar fiver to whoever can tell me a horrible or beautiful story about their children.
Contest opens: Today
Contest closes: Monday June 4th around Noon CST
Contest open to: CP parents who have been here for at least 6 months.
So let's hear it! Tell me about the time when...
"My baby had horrible colic, so I didn't sleep for 96 days straight. And then I was hospitalized."
or
"My baby pooped all over my face every time I changed his diaper. It was like a rocket firing. He'd kick the new diaper off the changing table, and I'd bend over every time, and he'd just fire right into my eyes."
The stories all sounded awful. People talk about how they almost died, or how their child almost died, or how they lost all semblance of free time, or dignity, or how their life was covered in literal feces. And yet, every story ends the same way... "But you'll love it."
As a soon to be parent, I remember wondering why people were torturing me with these stories. I mean, what in the world about this will I love?! Is this some kind of global hazing, like joining a special fraternity?
But after I had my kid, I realized that these moments that were being shared, they were the beautiful moments. Sure they were terrible at the time, but my goodness they stuck, and the stories these parents were sharing were really stories about how they fell in love with their kids despite the almost dying or the poop covered faces. And now, a month in, I get it.
So in honor of the horribly beautiful things that parents go through, I'm going to send an all Cuban Cigar fiver to whoever can tell me a horrible or beautiful story about their children.
Contest opens: Today
Contest closes: Monday June 4th around Noon CST
Contest open to: CP parents who have been here for at least 6 months.
So let's hear it! Tell me about the time when...