New Parent: Trials & Tribulations of the First Born

This blog is dedicated to uncovering the myths and misinformation that confront the new parent at every turn. We will closely examine instances and accidents to bring you, dear reader, a concise look at how expections meet reality, and how we deal with it in our usual suave and sophisticated manner. Have a question you'd like investigated? Send us a comment, and we'll dedicate our investigative team to an exhaustive (quite literally) search for the truth!

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Say Cheese!

We had many thoughts about what would be the hardest part of the baby to keep clean. It turns out that the number one, hardest, most unreachable place to keep clean is nowhere near where the new parent would expect.

It is the neck. An amazing amount of milk flows from the mouth, across the cheeks, and into the inpenetrable recesses of an infant's neck. In fact, so much milk lodges in the folds that we could probably launch our own boutique line of aged cheese. Of course, at this point the oldest cheese would only be a little over three months.

But back to the issue at hand. Cleaning Penny's neck makes us feel like intrepid explorers, bravely charting the neck reaches where no one has gone before. Occasionally we hit the jackpot, finding a Comstock Lode of milky residue. Every bath is like an adventure in geological archaeology, as we quietly chip off layer after layer of curdled leftovers.

The new parent employs almost any means at their disposal in the attempt to stop the cheesy buildup at its source, using everything from bibs to cloth diapers in an effort to build a dam against the inevitable flow. Unfortunately, the milky tides are against us. Perhaps it is time for us to abandon ship, let the rivers flow, and enjoy bath time's discoveries that much more.


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1 Comments:

Blogger clara said...

man, that is nasty! We fight the chub cheese here too at chez latham. At teeny`s 2 month visit I pulled some out of his armpits before the dr could see how much I suck at bathing my baby.

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