Comments on: a trip to Wokingham, part 1 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/ a writer in search of zen-like clam Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:29:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: going to Wokingham http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-69871 going to Wokingham Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:50:58 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/#comment-69871 [...] scene of my infamous day out with the baby Fecklet two years ago (which you can read, or reread, here and here), so I will no doubt be doing some happy reminiscing about bugs, boobs, poop and [...] [...] scene of my infamous day out with the baby Fecklet two years ago (which you can read, or reread, here and here), so I will no doubt be doing some happy reminiscing about bugs, boobs, poop and [...]

]]> By: Julie http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-11022 Julie Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:29:13 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/#comment-11022 I think one of the things that makes such mishaps easier (besides the fact that of course the baby is the most lovable thing in the entire universe) is that all parents have experienced them at some point or another. Maybe not the van, though. Julie, I didn't get the salad free! I should have asked! Agh!! Baby poop truly has supernatural powers, Melissa and Michelle. Lynette, sounds like twenty years have not been sufficient to take away the horror of exposing your breasts to casualty. No doubt it will be the same for you, Sadhbh. I think one of the things that makes such mishaps easier (besides the fact that of course the baby is the most lovable thing in the entire universe) is that all parents have experienced them at some point or another.

Maybe not the van, though.

Julie, I didn’t get the salad free! I should have asked! Agh!!

Baby poop truly has supernatural powers, Melissa and Michelle.

Lynette, sounds like twenty years have not been sufficient to take away the horror of exposing your breasts to casualty. No doubt it will be the same for you, Sadhbh.

]]> By: Lynette Rees http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-11019 Lynette Rees Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:29:30 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/#comment-11019 Can't wait to read the next installment, Julie. Although, I guess it wasn't such a great time for you. I can really empathise about the breast feeding in public thing. When my daughter was a baby, my mother came to stay and ended up dislocating her shoulder by tripping over the dog. I ended up with a starving baby in the middle of an overflowing casualty unit, having no choice but to feed her in front of all and sundry whilst I waited for my poor mother to go through a reduction and manipulation of her shoulder joint. The years fly by so fast. My baby is now twenty! Can’t wait to read the next installment, Julie. Although, I guess it wasn’t such a great time for you.

I can really empathise about the breast feeding in public thing. When my daughter was a baby, my mother came to stay and ended up dislocating her shoulder by tripping over the dog.

I ended up with a starving baby in the middle of an overflowing casualty unit, having no choice but to feed her in front of all and sundry whilst I waited for my poor mother to go through a reduction and manipulation of her shoulder joint.

The years fly by so fast. My baby is now twenty!

]]> By: Melissa http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-11017 Melissa Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:25:10 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/#comment-11017 The joys (yeah right) of motherhood could fill up volumes if women ever decided to get together and write about it. The one thing I never understood is how poop can crawl up a baby's back and ruin the cute outfit you just shelled out money for. It's like they wait for the exact moment you put it on them. Being a mother is a thankless job but I can't think of something else more fulfilling. The joys (yeah right) of motherhood could fill up volumes if women ever decided to get together and write about it. The one thing I never understood is how poop can crawl up a baby’s back and ruin the cute outfit you just shelled out money for. It’s like they wait for the exact moment you put it on them.
Being a mother is a thankless job but I can’t think of something else more fulfilling.

]]> By: Sadhbh http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-11013 Sadhbh Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:48:58 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/#comment-11013 Julie - finding a beetle in your salad is no problem, finding HALF a beetle in a salad you've already started might be a problem :-) Baring your breasts to all and sundry is normal for breast-feeding mothers, I still remember clearly Brendan refusing to feed with a particular nipple protector when we were out shopping over half an hour's drive from home and yet still screaming to be fed LOL What about the van? They didn't want to give it back at all, even when the two hours were up and you and Fecklet were stranded? Or is there an even worse scenario I don't even want to envisage? :-) Hugs Sadhbh Julie – finding a beetle in your salad is no problem, finding HALF a beetle in a salad you’ve already started might be a problem :-)
Baring your breasts to all and sundry is normal for breast-feeding mothers, I still remember clearly Brendan refusing to feed with a particular nipple protector when we were out shopping over half an hour’s drive from home and yet still screaming to be fed LOL
What about the van? They didn’t want to give it back at all, even when the two hours were up and you and Fecklet were stranded? Or is there an even worse scenario I don’t even want to envisage? :-)

Hugs

Sadhbh

]]> By: Lynne http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-11012 Lynne Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:28:51 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/#comment-11012 Oh no! That sounds like a delayed Friday the 13th! I look forward to hearing about the van! Lynne x Oh no! That sounds like a delayed Friday the 13th! I look forward to hearing about the van!
Lynne x

]]> By: Michelle Styles http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-11010 Michelle Styles Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:13:39 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/#comment-11010 Well at least you made it back safe and sound and I atoo am looking forward to hearing about the van. And there is no set pattern to baby's poops. I trust in your ability to cope. And there are time when you wonder why anyone consider a baby wipe adequate for the job intended, or even an entire packet of such things. Motherhood is a messy grubby job. You really do end up in the poop. Well at least you made it back safe and sound and I atoo am looking forward to hearing about the van.

And there is no set pattern to baby’s poops. I trust in your ability to cope. And there are time when you wonder why anyone consider a baby wipe adequate for the job intended, or even an entire packet of such things.

Motherhood is a messy grubby job. You really do end up in the poop.

]]> By: Julie Day http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-11009 Julie Day Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:30:48 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/#comment-11009 Ugh. What a horrible thing to have in your food. Hope you got the new salad free after the insect incident. Oh the joys of motherhood, you are saying. That is the time that infants tend to play up - when you're in a public place. But you love him, nevertheless. Look forward to hearing about the van..... Ugh. What a horrible thing to have in your food. Hope you got the new salad free after the insect incident.
Oh the joys of motherhood, you are saying. That is the time that infants tend to play up – when you’re in a public place. But you love him, nevertheless.
Look forward to hearing about the van…..

]]> By: Jessica Raymond http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-11006 Jessica Raymond Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:03:55 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/#comment-11006 Oh, poor Julie... Though I am, of course, hooked into finding out what happened next with the van. Jess x Oh, poor Julie… Though I am, of course, hooked into finding out what happened next with the van.

Jess x

]]> By: Anna Louise Lucia http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-11000 Anna Louise Lucia Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:09:44 +0000 http://www.julie-cohen.com/blog/2007/04/17/a-trip-to-wokingham-part-1/#comment-11000 No!!! You can't leave us there.... gggggg No!!! You can’t leave us there…. gggggg

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