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I can't believe how many people paw at our baby, if they had their way she would be kissed more times than the Blarney Stone. Clare and I have had to develop polite ways to dissuade people, but I'm going to swing for someone soon.
By Dad
One of my pet hates is when someone points something out to me on my computer. All they need do is tell me where to look or to just point, but more often than not they touch the screen with their grubby finger and leave a dirty great print on my screen. Why do they have to actually touch the screen?
Then you get people who use my computer to take a quick look on the Internet (without asking usually), instead of opening a new browser they load their page over what I was looking at. I've even had some people install software on my machine, and it's taken me ages to get it back to normal. Now everyone who knows me, knows that no one is allowed near my computer.
Then there is my Sunday newspapers. I've had people pick through, take out sections, crumple sections, tear out articles, take it to the toilet, and have the cheek to tell me all about articles they have read in my newspaper before I've had chance to read it. This no longer happens, I get a virgin newspaper on Sunday and no one is allowed to touch it.
I never expected I'd have the same problem with our baby. Whenever I've seen a friends baby I've looked and not touched. The last thing I would dream of is picking the baby up without asking and planting a great big kiss on it's mouth! Sometimes the Parent asks if you would like to hold them, or feed them. I always decline, but if they pass the baby to me I'm happy to hold them for a little while. The little mite can rest assured I'm not going to stick my finger in their mouth or kiss them, it will just be a little hold. I may throw in a little bounce if I'm feeling crazy.
When is the right time to have a baby? I don't think there is a right time and is it normal to have such mixed emotions.
By Mummy
After lengthly discussions we decided as we were both close on 33 it was time to start trying for a baby as we were not getting any younger. I had come off the pill a year earlier just to make sure that it was out of my system but we were very careful not to get pregnant. We had come to the conclusion that it would never be the right time to have a baby as you would always think of some reason as to why to put it off. Age was not on our side though and we had no idea as to how long it would take us to get pregnant.
We had a lot of visitors around the time we decided to try so could not get down to business. The night we decided to go for it was the night we conceived.
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