I just had to write this really quick
post today, because OH MY GOD, people!
My brother in law and his girlfriend
are expecting a baby (YAY!!). So today she and I were talking about baby and
pregnancy things and she mentioned she wasn’t sure what to do about a crib or
cradle for the baby. I try not to talk to much, because, well, we all know how
annoying too much advice is when we’re pregnant and also I epitomize the
American consumerism ideal and had both a cradle and a crib for my kids, as well as a wicker basket for when we were
downstairs, and I do, in fact, realize how completely ridiculous that is.
So anyway, I told her about the
co-sleeper, because they don’t exist in Italy and when I saw it in the US I
wished I didn’t already have more sleeping implements for babies than actual
babies in the house. And, I told her, if you plan on breastfeeding, or if
you’re a basket case like I was, checking to see if the baby was breathing
every half an hour (on a side note, why do they have to terrorize new mothers
with statistics on sids?) a co-sleeper is a really good idea, you can check on
the baby and latch it on whilst practically still asleep. Optimizing sleep,
when you have a newborn is really all you want to do anyway.
So I told her I’d send her some sites
to check out and I went a-internet-searching, as one does nowadays, and I
landed on this site: arms reach please go visit the site and come back, because
you have to see this for yourself.
Now, I like animals, I’ve always had
pets but for the love of all that is holy I cannot, for the life of me, fathom
how you can put co-sleeper beds for babies on the same site as co-sleeper beds
for pets. Seriously. What happened to your pooch sleeping on the rug near your
bed? And also, I cannot, I simply CANNOT imagine buying a bed for a newborn
with the image of practically the same identical bed for a dog. It blows my
mind. And I thought the pet stroller was ridiculous enough all on its own.
What, I ask you, is the world coming
to?
