quote:Originally posted by Octavia: To be honest I can't imagine not getting out of the house for two weeks! Unless I have to have a Caesarian.
I didn't have a C so I was out within a week. Just a short walk to the corner shop to stop myself going stir crazy. When it is your first it is so totally scary though, doing it alone. It has to be a very short trip! I have never driven but my mate tells me that the worst day was the first drive alone with the baby. Two weeks later I went with her and she was still shaking when she got in the car.
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You aren't supposed to expose the baby to too many people in the first two weeks, and especially should stay away from indoor public places. Going somewhere outdoors should be fine, as long as there aren't smokers near the baby...
With our second, we went out to take a walk when she was four days old.
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What happens if you expose the baby to too many people? Does it pop, like a frag mine? Does its little baby head make pipping noises and kapow! It's bonce explodes and it breaks the fourth wall by looking at the camera, all sort of 'see now look at what you've done'?
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Their little immune systems supposedly can't handle it and they might get sick, badly. I took my second daughter out to a restaurant in the first week of life though - my girls have been exclusively breastfed, so, especially in those early months, they were better equipped to fight off any nasty germs.
The smoke thing should be self-explanatory.
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quote:Originally posted by rooster: The smoke thing should be self-explanatory.
Makes me wonder. If a woman smokes while pregnant, would the secondhand smoke be soothing to the baby? You know, like one of those fake heartbeat machines they sell? Except with nicotine, that is.
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The recent film "The Age of Stupid" reminded me of this thread because what is the world going to be like when this kid has grown up. It could quite likely be a futuristic hell hole as depicted in that science fiction film if an environmental catastrophe happens.
Or else like it was depicted in films like Mad Max and Blade Runner in the 80s. In Mad Max civilisation breaks down and man reverts to living in warring tribes while in Bladerunner technoglogy goes mad and creates a horror world.
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quote:Originally posted by Harlequin: The recent film "The Age of Stupid" reminded me of this thread because what is the world going to be like when this kid has grown up. It could quite likely be a futuristic hell hole as depicted in that science fiction film if an environmental catastrophe happens.
You know, I've given this quite a bit of thought recently, recalling something TMO dyslexia poster boy Jnhoj said about having kids in a world that was obviously "going to be horrible for them". It made me feel quite guilty, and after a couple of months of anxiety I brought it up with a few people. One of them mentioned that his mum described how she'd gotten incredibly angry with herself for falling pregnant in the late seventies, because she felt like she'd condemned her kid to live in a nuclear wasteland. In fact, everyone on here was conceived in world that looked like it was charging headlong into nuclear annihilation. Prior to that, people were bringing babies into a world where humanity had just gone through two of the bloodiest conflicts in its history, and the level of destruction appeared to be escalating. Before that, people were bringing babies into a world of rampaging financial crisis. Before that, it was a world where your kids risked being exploited as cheap labour in the gruesome environment of the industrial revolution. Before that, it was a fair chance they would be claimed by disease before they hit their teens. So it's never been the case that the future has looked rosy and safe and prosperous for all, but we all muddled through in the end.
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For my baby, in preperation, I've made a little leather romper suit complete with studs, zips and a holster for its raxor sharp boomerang and back holsters for it's little sawn off shotguns. It's going to apocalyptically cute.
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Great observation Thorn - certainly made me re-evaluate my viewpoint on the whole parenthood thing. And anyway, it might be one of these offspring that produce a solution for all the doom we are heading into - they could even be born the next messiah who saves humanity - who knows?
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