Baby Bomb

[madjeanine]

Question:  What exactly is a "baby bomb"?

Scene: R2 Local train to Center City Philadelphia
Players: Jeanine Maraj - a 30 year old, soon to be mother; 
                White Trash Woman - will be referred to here as WTW

Jeanine has sat down in a two seater, by herself, expecting someone from a stop along the way to sit down next to her, as usual on the

Comments

[fluffysings]

From my experience, a "baby bomb" is what selfish mothers who don't want to get their asses out of bed in the middle of the night feed their infant before they go to sleep. It consists of adding rice cereal to their last bottle. While this is perfectly acceptable after the baby is four months old, but introducing cereal to an infant before this time could trigger a food allergy.

One thing I do agree with WTW - NEVER wake a sleeping baby to eat. They will tell you when they are hungry.

[madjeanine]

Okay, well at least that's way more acceptable than giving a baby alcohol to make him or her sleep through the night. Since you put it that way, maybe I have heard of doing that before. I guess the woman just made me think that she would do something like that.

As far as waking a sleeping baby to eat - I don't know what I'll do. I can definitely understand not wanting to wake them every 2 hours though because of needing sleep myself. In the class they told us not to go more than 3 and 1/2 hours though without feeding them. I'm just going to wait and see what happens.

[fluffysings]

I think every doctor is different, too. Mine told me not to wake Jenna because babies grow when they sleep. He said she'd wake herself when she was hungry. Jenna woke up every 2 hours like clockwork anyway, til she was 6 months old. Then she slept through the night.

Now, my sister's kids slept 5 to 6 hours between feedings.

PS - there will always be some woman giving you advice, since you are showing. It's like the circle of life.

[shebajr]

I seem to remember Josh sleeping about 4 to 6 hours between feedings, too. I don't remember ever waking him for feedings, either.

Your instincts will be a great help once the baby is there. You'll know if you feel like you need to wake him or not. But I agree, babies will let you know when they're hungry!

[drunkpoet515]

My guess is that a baby bomb was like on the Simpsons where grandpa gave little Homer some Nyquil when Homer wouldn't shut up.
You should have started with "no habla Ingles" when she started talking. If she wondered how you could read a book in English, you could have screamed "NO HABLA INGLES!" until she went away.

[madjeanine]

Good suggestion! My guess is that she wouldn't have had enough brain cells to realize the book I was reading was in English rather than Spanish anyway.

[pianopuncher]

My first thought was something along the lines of Brian's favorite former downstairs neighbor, Ben was probably doing to his infant (i.e. blowing pot in the kid's face and then screaming obscenities at an upstairs neighbor). I've found that the best two methods of avoiding undesirable conversations with strangers would be to either fake sign language at them (if they think you are deaf, half the people don't want to even sit near you because they think it's contageous) or let out a really rank fart and drool a little at them (granted I'm not sure if anyone outside of my gene pool can actually store up the bad gas and use it as a weapon).