Audra-Anne Bowen and Mrs. Pancakes are the winners of the What To Expect giveaway!!! Very exciting. Please email nextstopbabyblog@gmail.com by Sunday (7/1/12) at 5 pm EST with your email address and mailing address to get the ball rolling and receive your prize. New winner(s) will be chosen if I don't hear from you by Sunday, so get on it.
Everyone enjoy your weekend, it's almost July! And, more importantly, next week I have a very special post for you. A post about a special person that I (almost) met this week. We were within 10 feet of one another. Her name rhymes with Mosie Rope...
Friday, June 29, 2012
Stuff People Google 58
Today's search phrase confused me.
At first I thought the typist had intended to type "baby blanket puking", but accidentally added the "c". I assumed it was a search about cleaning baby vomit out of a blanket. Seemed like a viable explanation. For kicks, I googled the exact phrase to see if my theory held up. It sort of did. Yes, the 2nd highest result involved puking and blankets, but the top result did not (nor did any of the other results that I care to scroll through. The top result was for CafePress.com where a whole mess of hockey themed baby blankets are sold. Hmmm. But, if this is what someone was looking for wouldn't the word "hockey" be a better search choice than "pucking"? The mystery continues...
Check back at NOON for the winners of the What To Expect giveaway
baby blanket pucking
At first I thought the typist had intended to type "baby blanket puking", but accidentally added the "c". I assumed it was a search about cleaning baby vomit out of a blanket. Seemed like a viable explanation. For kicks, I googled the exact phrase to see if my theory held up. It sort of did. Yes, the 2nd highest result involved puking and blankets, but the top result did not (nor did any of the other results that I care to scroll through. The top result was for CafePress.com where a whole mess of hockey themed baby blankets are sold. Hmmm. But, if this is what someone was looking for wouldn't the word "hockey" be a better search choice than "pucking"? The mystery continues...
Check back at NOON for the winners of the What To Expect giveaway
Thursday, June 28, 2012
I'm Afraid of Holding Babies
No, the title of this post isn't a phrase from Stuff People Google (though it certainly sounds like it is). Rather, it's an accurate description of how I feel when a new parent excitedly hands me her teeny tiny bundle of joy. I sometimes decline. Not outright decline, but sort of blow it off. No, no, no...she's so comfortable we don't have to move her around, you hold onto her or I have to run to the bathroom, I'll hold him when I get back.
Truthfully, I'm not afraid of all babies. I'm cool with the 6+ month olds. It's the newborns that freak me out. They're just so small. Who's seen a newborn lately? I've recently been in the company a two day old baby who was, actually, on the big side (over 8 lbs). Even her tiny big self scared the BaJesus out of me. Thankfully she was fast asleep and there was no offer to transfer her to my sweaty palms. Even so, I positioned myself at a safe distance across the room.
You would think that a baby crazy lady like myself would be overly eager to grab whatever babies I was offered. I think it's far more common to squeal and reach out at the sight of one. But I don't. I wish I did. Instead, I get scared and force myself to sit down on the nearest surface (floor included) like a 4th grader who's holding a baby for the first time under strict parental supervision.
Why? The obvious answer: I'm afraid of dropping, crushing, bending, breaking and/or upsetting the tiny person. I'm afraid of being bad at it. Because if I accidentally hurt or upset the baby or if I'm randomly bad at it, that could reflect on my ability as a future mother. If I don't shine at baby holding, the parent could think I'm non-maternal and, worse, I could feel non-maternal.
There's not a happy ending to this post. I didn't have a break through last week with an exceptionally easy infant. I didn't discovery a zen trick to calm me down at the sight of a newborn. But that's okay. If I'm awkward as hell with everyone else's baby, I have faith that I'll be natural with my own...not because I'm an eternal optimist but because that's what I've been told. Plus, practice makes perfect and when it's your own baby there's a lot of practice.
Truthfully, I'm not afraid of all babies. I'm cool with the 6+ month olds. It's the newborns that freak me out. They're just so small. Who's seen a newborn lately? I've recently been in the company a two day old baby who was, actually, on the big side (over 8 lbs). Even her tiny big self scared the BaJesus out of me. Thankfully she was fast asleep and there was no offer to transfer her to my sweaty palms. Even so, I positioned myself at a safe distance across the room.
You would think that a baby crazy lady like myself would be overly eager to grab whatever babies I was offered. I think it's far more common to squeal and reach out at the sight of one. But I don't. I wish I did. Instead, I get scared and force myself to sit down on the nearest surface (floor included) like a 4th grader who's holding a baby for the first time under strict parental supervision.
Why? The obvious answer: I'm afraid of dropping, crushing, bending, breaking and/or upsetting the tiny person. I'm afraid of being bad at it. Because if I accidentally hurt or upset the baby or if I'm randomly bad at it, that could reflect on my ability as a future mother. If I don't shine at baby holding, the parent could think I'm non-maternal and, worse, I could feel non-maternal.
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| Unlike me, Michael Jackson had absolutely no fear of holding his baby...over a balcony. |
There's not a happy ending to this post. I didn't have a break through last week with an exceptionally easy infant. I didn't discovery a zen trick to calm me down at the sight of a newborn. But that's okay. If I'm awkward as hell with everyone else's baby, I have faith that I'll be natural with my own...not because I'm an eternal optimist but because that's what I've been told. Plus, practice makes perfect and when it's your own baby there's a lot of practice.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Giveaway: What To Expect When You're Expecting
As promised last Friday, I have a giveaway for you today. And not just any giveaway, a giveaway from the one and only What To Expect When You're Expecting.
You know that WTEWYE (yes, I'm using a 6 letter acronym) is a book, arguably the bible of pregnancy reads. You also know that it's a movie, a recently released movie that stars Cameron Diaz. I still haven't seen it and the thought of Cameron Diaz with a fake baby bump still isn't appealing to me. But that's neither here nor there. You may not know that WTEWYE is also a website, an iPhone app and a collection of books. WTEWYE is taking over the pregnant world.
The WTEWYE collection of books includes the original that you know, What to Expect in the First Year and What to Expect in the Second Year. From what I hear, the First and Second Year books are just as crucial as their predecessor, which makes me exceptionally happy about today's giveaway - the FULL collection.
Prize: What to Expect book series including What to Expect When You're Expecting, What to Expect in the First Year and What to Expect in the Second Year.
How to enter (and win): Post a comment (on this blog, BELOW) about what you expect to happen when you're pregnant or what you did expect about pregnancy before you pregnant. Craving pickles and ice cream? Going up a bra size? Barfing...frequently?
Enter by: Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 5 pm (EST), no exceptions...sorry
Number of Winners: Two!!!
Shipping: US only
Winner Announcement: Two winners will be randomly selected using http://random-draw.org and posted Friday (6/29/12) afternoon. So, check back!
So, what are/were you expecting???
You know that WTEWYE (yes, I'm using a 6 letter acronym) is a book, arguably the bible of pregnancy reads. You also know that it's a movie, a recently released movie that stars Cameron Diaz. I still haven't seen it and the thought of Cameron Diaz with a fake baby bump still isn't appealing to me. But that's neither here nor there. You may not know that WTEWYE is also a website, an iPhone app and a collection of books. WTEWYE is taking over the pregnant world.
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| Cameron with her fake bump for the movie. Believable? |
The WTEWYE collection of books includes the original that you know, What to Expect in the First Year and What to Expect in the Second Year. From what I hear, the First and Second Year books are just as crucial as their predecessor, which makes me exceptionally happy about today's giveaway - the FULL collection.
Prize: What to Expect book series including What to Expect When You're Expecting, What to Expect in the First Year and What to Expect in the Second Year.
How to enter (and win): Post a comment (on this blog, BELOW) about what you expect to happen when you're pregnant or what you did expect about pregnancy before you pregnant. Craving pickles and ice cream? Going up a bra size? Barfing...frequently?
Enter by: Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 5 pm (EST), no exceptions...sorry
Number of Winners: Two!!!
Shipping: US only
Winner Announcement: Two winners will be randomly selected using http://random-draw.org and posted Friday (6/29/12) afternoon. So, check back!
So, what are/were you expecting???
Friday, June 22, 2012
Stuff People Google 57
Who knows what today's edition of Stuff People Google means without looking it up?
natakar
There are a host of things to discuss about the word natakar. First, it's Slovenian. Second, it means waiter. Perhaps there's another definition that I'm unaware of (likely) because who uses Google to look up the word "waiter", whether in English, Slovenian or any other language? There must be a more interesting story behind this strange word. Third, how pray tell did the typist find Next Stop Baby by typing the word "natakar" into Google???
PS - Next Tuesday (6/26/12) on NSB will be an awesome, awesome giveaway!!! I haven't done a giveaway in a while, this one will be worth the wait.
PS - Next Tuesday (6/26/12) on NSB will be an awesome, awesome giveaway!!! I haven't done a giveaway in a while, this one will be worth the wait.
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