We went to a baby shower for A's niece today and it was an interesting trip down memory lane for me. This Niece was the one who hosted our baby shower 3 years ago, in the same house, with the same games, and the same people. So you can see how I drew some parallels! The mother is young, A says 22 but she seems so much younger to me, he has known her longer so I will defer to him! We brought Ara with us and it took us a lot of convincing to get her to stop declaring the shower "her" party. I am still not sure she believed us! The new baby will have every type of baby apparatus it could ever want or need. Both parents have families that made sure of that. Down to the top of the line night vision baby monitor and about a thousand pairs of tiny Nike's. Someone estimated that the gifts from this shower (their 2nd shower) totaled well over $1000. And that does not include the crib or the $200 bassinet they received. So there you go, the going rate for having a baby in style is somewhere in the $2000 range for "stuff" alone. Not to mention all the other crap the will need but did not know enough to register for. Like bottles, breast pump (I bet all guys cringe when I say that), diapers, wipes, sleep... oh wait they can't have that no matter where they register!
The strange thing is, that even being a woman with a kid, I still find showers kind of boring! I'm sorry! It's just the truth. I will admit that I sometimes daydream about Ara having a sibling but when it comes to being excited for other people to have babies I just don't feel it. Keep in mind that I had Ara the natural way. No drugs to ease the pain, just lots of yelling and delirious dreams of killing my midwives (lol j/k I loved them) but even so I think back on infancy as the most painful part of Ara's birth! I shudder at the sleep deprivation, I never got more than a 2 hour stretch. The colic. If you've experienced it then, "nuff said". The worries over ever squeaky baby sound made in the night. Oh no, I still remember the pain, it is too early for me to have clouded out the bad. I see other woman looking all misty eyed over the idea of a baby and I realize that I am either not normal or I have far to detailed a memory.
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