Yesterday was Dorothy's one week birthday. They even announced it (and wished her a happy new life!) on WERS' The Playground radio show. So, the way I figure it, that's one week down, and 938 to go until Dorothy is 18 years old and of legal age. Of course, we'll still be worrying about her probably forever, but if we look at the physical child-care aspect only, we have a reasonable guess as to how many more sleepless nights we can expect. ;-) (We might get a break from sleepless nights starting around week ~200 or so, but then they might reappear occasionally sometime around week ~700.)
And for those of you who may be thinking of having children soon: Make sure you have a washer & dryer in the house before you do so! I can't believe the number of loads of laundry I've done in just the last few days. Some of it has been catching up from the laundry I didn't do while Elizabeth was in the hospital, but there's been a good amount of baby laundry too.
Posted by Tom Nugent at March 14, 2004 06:11 PMWhile I do understand what you're saying about laundry, I lived in the same house as a newborn for a few weeks, I sometimes found it hard to believe that something that small could produce so much laundry.
Of course, that being said, apparently my parents wonder the same thing about me.
Posted by: Seth Matheson at March 14, 2004 07:50 PMMess goes in one end, and comes out at either end. No wonder there is so much baby laundry.
Just imagine how much laundry there was in the cloth diaper era. I don't have to imagine - my first wife and I tried the cloth diaper thing. The experiment lasted for almost two weeks.
On the plus side, cloth diapers make really good spit-up and general purpose rags. Oddly better than the ones marketed for that purpose.
Posted by: Brian at March 17, 2004 01:59 AM