Baby Rabies

[bertine]

Between all the babies people have been having lately and phoenixredux's post and comments, I have baby rabies so badly right now.

Anyways, I need to clamp down on it soon or I am going to end up not returning one of my friend's babies and ruining a perfectly good friendship. Plus, I have finally gotten used to the IUD so no more changes for awhile.

gwangi keeps trying to convince me that cradling Xerxes in my arms like a baby is pretty much the same thing. However, I am pretty sure most babies don't have claws.

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[phoenixredux.livejournal.com]

Little baby fingernails can get pretty sharp. You have to trim them with adorable little baby nail clippers to keep them from scratching up their cute little faces. Or, you know, your eyeballs.

Sorry. I've got it SO BAD that I need to inflict it on others, too. It's a seriously contagious, out of control case of Baby Rabies.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I hear that it is now recommended that you bite your baby's nails to keep them short.

After reading that blog you linked to in your post, I was seriously taking about cloth diapers with Zach. That poor boy has to be sick of it by now.

[phoenixredux.livejournal.com]

Really? I hadn't heard that about the nail-biting. That's interesting.

Sick? Or EXCITED!?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I guess it is safer or something.

Well... I think the idea of dirty washing diapers in the washing machine made him a little sick. Ha!

No, he isn't excited, he needs to get through quite a bit of training before this can happen.

[phoenixredux.livejournal.com]

If he can make it through training, having a baby should be a virtual cakewalk.

Well, the diapers get bleached, right? There's probably nothing that lives in your colon that can survive a good bleaching.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I don't think they get bleached, I think you just wash them in really hot water with enzyme cleaner. However, he did study a lot of parasites while in college.

Ok, I am going to go think about work instead of babies.

[phoenixredux.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I need to do that, too. It just hasn't been working very well. Good luck.

[annablume.livejournal.com]

How can that be true? I routinely tear the crap out my my nail beds biting my nails.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I do the same thing.

[sharya.livejournal.com]

Dude, you'd be surprised on that last comment. Baby claws are SHARP!

And nearly impossible to cut, ugh.

But seriously... babies can claw like nobodies business!

[scorpi084.livejournal.com]

I have known many babies with claws. They can scratch your face up pretty good if you don't trim their nails.

[i12bmore.livejournal.com]

My life kind of revolves around my turning forty, when I will apply to adopt, so I totally hear ya.

[thetaxena.livejournal.com]

I have it, too. My coworkers keep bringing their tiny little infants over. And since Kirby is so large I forget that he was ever that tiny and adorable... le sigh. I should be happy with the little one I have. But I held this adorable little 20 day old last week. I just want 1 more. Or 2... or 5.