All I Want for Christmas is a Clean Burp Cloth
The T.V. ads say I should want diamonds or a Lexus for Christmas, but all I really want is a clean burb cloth…
I knew enough to know that caring for an infant is unlike anything else and I tried to not think I knew what it would be like before I was actually there. I didn’t decide ahead of time exactly what I would do about breast feeding or co-sleeping or a schedule. I read up some and had some ideas, then met Baby Girl and figured it out from there.
But I remember one thing I thought I knew that I didn’t really know that makes me laugh now. I was sorting through some baby shower gifts and I had gotten several packs of burp cloths, about fifteen burp cloths in all and I thought, “I won’t need this many burp cloths.”
Well, now that I know Baby Girl better, and how I am with Baby Girl, I can’t believe I used to think that.
Baby Girl spits up. There are a lot of ways she is an easy baby, but one way she keeps me on my toes is that she spits up all day long. Sometimes the spit up is just a little that runs down her shirt and other times the spit up is a lot and it travels a distance, onto my arm and my pants and the floor. The pediatrician says this is normal, no worries, but I wish I had a tool belt that I could wear with a burp cloth attached so I could be ready all the time.
But I don’t have the tool belt, so I keep a burp cloth in different places around the house and try to keep one with Baby Girl and I don’t wash them right away when they get messy, I give them a good work out first. (I’ve also stopped changing her clothes and mine right away, unless we are going somewhere special or we are completely soaking wet.)
But still, after several trips to Babies R Us and Target, I must own fifty burp cloths by now, I still do the laundry one day and I’m out of burp cloths the next. I have dreams at night, not of diamonds or car keys under the Christmas tree, but what if there were a huge box of something like five hundred burp cloths, so I would never run out! That would be amazing!
Well, I’m sending good Christmas thoughts your way, hoping you get what you want under the tree and that you have sweet times with your family. Merry Christmas!
