Still Lifting My Shirt
Still Lifting My Shirt
By Joanne of Wavin' Baby
Well it's been about three months since my 2 1/2 year old daughter
Sophie stopped nursing....but at nighttime, it's the same routine: let's
help ouselves to mom's
body. When dear Sophie gets tired, she rubs her eyes, yawns, gets cuddly
next to me on the couch, then starts lifting my shirt (and pulling down
the waistband of my
pants!) saying "Belly! belly!"
Oh, yes...my daughter, who was never a nipple-twiddler when nursing
(thank goodness!) has the lovely habit of sticking her finger in my
bellybutton when she is
tired. And wrenching it around. She used to do it the last few months of
nursing, then when nursing stopped, I had hoped this annoying habit
would stop too...but,
alas, it continues. And let me tell you how frustrating it is when we're
in a store, or at a restaurant--and Lord help me if I'm wearing a dress
with no belly access!
My mom told me to try and find something like my belly for her to hold
when she's tired....ohh, a mother's words of wisdom. And Toy R' us just
might happen to
have a sale on cottage-cheese like post-pregnancy bumps with stretch
marks on them at Toys R Us?!? Ugh. And so the "belly! belly!" request
continues every
evening in my house.
Note from Stephanie:
This story cracked me up so much when I read it in the Wavin' Baby newsletter that I just had to beg Joanne for permission to reprint it here for you:)
For those of us who have been there...well, we know what it is like and for those of us about to go there...this is what it is like:)
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