Comments on: #32: Avoid Avoiding Babies

By: Pamela Redmond Satran

Pamela Redmond Satran — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:47:46 +0000

This is hilarious. I don’t know how I missed those two!

By: cindy

cindy — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:03:32 +0000

Oh Janet- that slays me… and I’ll be borrowing it, if you don’t mind.
When (younger) friends proudly offer to let me hold their babies, I’m feeling like a deer in the headlights, dumbstruck about how to get out of it…
“I’d love to, but I have this horribly contagious skin infection” is a lie too easily revealed.
A polite “No, thanks” is somehow always regarded as my just joking. They laugh and then thrust the infant forward.
The brutally honest “I don’t want to hold your baby” can give birth to a whole new beast.
But “Kinda drunk”? Perfect. Creates the illusion that I’d like to but I am only thinking of the precious baby’s well-being.
Thanks.

By: janet c

janet c — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:56:48 +0000

in the book you included a list of good excuses for not holding thme baby. here is one i recently used on my 31 year old sister who had here first child last year (i am 48)
my sister: “would you please hold olivia for a second?”
me: “i would but i’m kind of drunk”