Kids aren't kittens....
Mar. 22nd, 2004 01:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
I have a tendancy to compare the babies to kittens at various developmental stages, mostly because 1. I understand cats and 2. I'm used to kittens, while I'm not really that used to babies. And 3. it's funny to see Lizziey or Jenn complain that I'm calling their kids like they were cats (though that's not why I do it all the time, most of the time it's out of habit).
However, this tendancy, while useful, can go a bit far. Today, I was trying to get a booger out of Seth's nose so he could breathe (he's a little sick) and he was, of course, trying to squirm away from me. Now, I've been in similar situations with kittens and somewhat slow cats (most cats knew better than to try that) so I found myself automatically reaching around the back of his neck for the nape! *giggles* The nape is the fold of skin on the back of the neck that mama cats pick up newborns with. They reflexively curl up and stay still when you do that. It's VERY DANGEROUS to pick up a full grown cat that way, and the curl up reflex is gone, but they still will calm down if you hold the nape (often, not always, and not forever). Also, it IS a good way to keep them still if you're doing something where they CANNOT move, like clipping their claws (which I've never done, I didn't want to risk cutting them) or defleaing them (FLEAS. KILL.) so I started to do that out of habit... and freaked when I realized that there WAS NO NAPE.
Of course not, Connie. This is a human baby, not a kitten. Babies don't have napes. *rolls eyes*
Anyway, this is a nice segue (never segway) into my theory of spanking... but I'll post that in the morning, when you've digested this bit of info.
Djusk' a!
However, this tendancy, while useful, can go a bit far. Today, I was trying to get a booger out of Seth's nose so he could breathe (he's a little sick) and he was, of course, trying to squirm away from me. Now, I've been in similar situations with kittens and somewhat slow cats (most cats knew better than to try that) so I found myself automatically reaching around the back of his neck for the nape! *giggles* The nape is the fold of skin on the back of the neck that mama cats pick up newborns with. They reflexively curl up and stay still when you do that. It's VERY DANGEROUS to pick up a full grown cat that way, and the curl up reflex is gone, but they still will calm down if you hold the nape (often, not always, and not forever). Also, it IS a good way to keep them still if you're doing something where they CANNOT move, like clipping their claws (which I've never done, I didn't want to risk cutting them) or defleaing them (FLEAS. KILL.) so I started to do that out of habit... and freaked when I realized that there WAS NO NAPE.
Of course not, Connie. This is a human baby, not a kitten. Babies don't have napes. *rolls eyes*
Anyway, this is a nice segue (never segway) into my theory of spanking... but I'll post that in the morning, when you've digested this bit of info.
Djusk' a!
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Date: 2004-03-21 11:11 pm (UTC)Both of the girls have been very friendly lately though.
Oh, god, Connie. Have you ever heard of nutri cal? They love it. And it helps them to gain weight. It's high in protein.
Protein + rats = sores and itchiness.
I feel so bad. :\
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Date: 2004-03-21 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-23 12:16 am (UTC)Very cute story.
I am reminded of something similar: many years ago I read an account in the Baker Street Journal of someone who had read in a Sherlock Holmes story a description of Holmes wearing a kind of hat called a "wideawake", and he wondered exactly what that was. The illustrations from the original publications weren't any help, as they showed Holmes wearing a standard travelling cap. He went through book after book about haberdashery hoping to find it, but no luck.
Finally he looked in the Oxford English Dictionary, where he found it.
A "wideawake" is a kind of hat so named because it has no nap.
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Date: 2004-03-21 11:11 pm (UTC)Both of the girls have been very friendly lately though.
Oh, god, Connie. Have you ever heard of nutri cal? They love it. And it helps them to gain weight. It's high in protein.
Protein + rats = sores and itchiness.
I feel so bad. :\
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Date: 2004-03-21 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-23 12:16 am (UTC)Very cute story.
I am reminded of something similar: many years ago I read an account in the Baker Street Journal of someone who had read in a Sherlock Holmes story a description of Holmes wearing a kind of hat called a "wideawake", and he wondered exactly what that was. The illustrations from the original publications weren't any help, as they showed Holmes wearing a standard travelling cap. He went through book after book about haberdashery hoping to find it, but no luck.
Finally he looked in the Oxford English Dictionary, where he found it.
A "wideawake" is a kind of hat so named because it has no nap.