One of the guys in our office works in the morning and watches his 7-month-old daughter in the afternoons.  Well apparently today they really needed him to work this afternoon and were looking for someone to babysit his daughter.  So of course they ask me, because, well, I’m the secretary, but more pertinent, I am 5 months pregnant.  And I was so embarrassed to say that I couldn’t do it by myself because I haven’t changed a diaper since I was 7.  Geez.  I plan to learn these things by the time our little kiddo is in the world, but I certainly don’t want to practice on someone else’s kid.  It was just sad.  So another woman in our office is going to take care of his daughter because she actually knows how to take care of children.  I feel like a total spazz, although I’m confident I’ll know everything after my single Baby Care Basics class that I’m taking in February.  Right.  Oh, that’s right, I did take a Child Development Class in high school, but they don’t really teach you practical stuff in there.  And then they make you take care of a bunch of ill-behaved small children who ask why you have a hole in your forehead (chicken pox scar).  I told that cheeky little bastard that she’d get chicken pox one day and have scars just like me.  Oh, and to make sure she scratched her chicken pox all the time;)

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Comments

Kate

2005-11-11T03:17:00.000Z

Forgive me for smiling at your post.  I can totally see you panicking.  I’m told that’s pretty common.  Do they even put it in the books?  If not, they should.

Diapers and all that you can learn.  Being loving and accepting and wonderful you can’t learn.  And you already have it.  I don’t know if this helps, but you’re going to be amazing!