I rather wish

[minoanmiss]

One of the other patients in the waiting room was a pregnant lady doing her glucose test, with a little boy beside her conversing on his phone and a burly baby in her lap who wanted to crawl across the whole floor. I felt kind of bad for her -- couldn't anyone ahve taken one of her boys for the duration of her test -- but my fans aren't safe for the under-3 chew-on-things set. So I gave one to the the little boy, telling him not to let the baby have the fan for this reason, but that he could entertain the baby with it. Last I saw beefore I was called in was the mom calling "thank you" to me. :) I hope she managed her test and her little boys all right. I wish I could have helped more. (I would gladly have held the baby of course but I'm not going to offer that. There's a reason Mama Bear is a saying and humans are judt as fierce.)

Ugh, I am worn out. Now to nap, but I wanted to write that bit down.

Comments

[amaebi]

:D When I was a very late-breaking mother at 44, I kind of assumed my seminary colleagues might want to hold my gorgeous good-tempered baby. I wasn't thrusting him at them, but I would say I was willing to have him borrowed. Oe colleague said sourly that I was trying to get free babysitting, which wasn't remotely what I had in mind. And I stopped making offers.

[kayre]

Oh, how sad! There were several new babies during my first years at previous church, and once we got acquainted, the parents were delighted to hand off baby and actually have coffee and socialize-- and I loved that time so much.

[minoanmiss]

Wow what an awful response they gave to one of life's best opportunities.

[oracne]

When I wrote a little plotless story to include in my omnibus, one of the "day in the life" stops is at a community center, which has a room in the back where people just pop in and out to hold babies. I would TOTALLY be a baby-holder.

[minoanmiss]

MY DREAM