Comments on: And when they scrape their knee, you can also hire someone to comfort them.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:29:49 +0000

Thanks for the comments everyone. I also just want to be clear that I am not somehow criticizing parents who are at the end of their rope, don’t know what to do, and need some extra help (although I am with UUMomma on that one that I would hire someone to do all the chores and take care of the baby myself). I think there is a huge difference between, “We haven’t had a good nights sleep in six weeks, and we feel like we can barely go on and don’t know what to do,” and “We hire someone to do the hard stuff that we don’t like with raising kids because we are too tired and busy with our intense jobs.” Although, I don’t know how you afford the first option if you don’t have high-paying (and probably intense jobs).

By: Ms. Theologian

Ms. Theologian — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:21:16 +0000

I was just reading about hiring a baby night nurse for the first three months in What to expect for the first year or some such baby book. It must be not as uncommon as it seems. Setting the morality aside, I just don’t know how anyone could afford to.

By: Lizard Eater

Lizard Eater — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:35:13 +0000

I’m with you, uuMomma … baby on my chest … okay, affixed to my breast … watching some crappy tv show at 3 am … the only one awake in the house … love it.

I had just been wondering about “what do the rich people do” when their child has cancer. I mean, it’s not like you can buy a better brand of chemo. “It’s the same chemo, but it’s delivered in a Birkin bag!” Tee-hee.

I haven’t seen any nannies here, sitting for the 4+ hours it takes to get one 2 minute dose of chemo. Seems like just moms. And none with Birkins.

By: uuMomma

uuMomma — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:55:00 +0000

I remember wishing so much for a full night sleep. On the surface, this seems both common-sense and over-the-top ridiculous at the very same time. Still, as I sit here with my youngest daughter’s 10th birthday just a few weeks away, as hard as that time was with so little sleep, it isn’t the holding them at night I wish I’d have paid someone to do. It is the laundry and the cooking and the cleaning. I may have to blog on this. I’m tearing up just thinking about sitting in my rocker (now broken), falling asleep with a baby on my chest. A full night’s sleep is good, but those memories? So, so, so, so, so much better.