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Main Page Site Index Getting Pregnant Pregnancy Parenting Pregnancy and Parenting Journals Fertility Nutrition Pregnant Moms Morning Sickness Women's Health Child Health	The Boy the Boob the Lady and the Guy catch a Cold by Carol Dunn Once upon a time the little boy madly in love with a boob, the lady attached to the boob, and the guy with a diaper fixation, caught a cold. That's right, the lady is sitting at this very moment with a head that feels like a pumpkin out on the porch a bit too long--huge, heavy, and soggy ('as opposed to my chest' sighed the lady 'which is huge heavy and saggy). Yes, it was a big moment for the little boy, his first viral infection--the lady is saving the first little drenched tissue for his 'first year' keepsake album. To celebrate, the baby decided to party all night, two nights straight waking up each one half hour to explain to his parents that he doesn't really like the feeling of having a stuffy nose. His parents tried to explain that it would be easier on him, if he slept on his belly--but unfortunately they couldn't get across the concept of putting his head to the side, instead of straight down, so that it is possible to breath. Not that they didn't try, if someone had covertly video'd the spectacle of two grown adults (well, to grown people at least) saying 'hey hey look, on-the-side, the-side' repeatedly laying their heads sideways on the covers. But to no avail, much to the dismay of the lady, who realised that maybe it's a bit early to be telling people that Harvard is in the little boy's future after all. (Harvard is in his future--the name of his future dog.) What disillusions the lady more is that while the boy is getting better, her cold is getting progressively worse. It occurs to her that the little boy has gotten better so quickly because of the anti-bodies in her breast milk--but it also occurs to her that there is something not fair in that, since those are her anti-bodies he's using. Not that she would begrudge the little boy any antibodies (how could anyone begrudge such a sweetie pie anything) but it seems to her that her antibodies could begrudge her a few now and then. What is really going on is that the lady has it wrong--it's not her antibodies helping the boy--it's his new healthy baby antibodies rushing to the rescue, unlike the lady's older, jaded, and quite snobbish anti-bodies. See, the thing is, the lady's antibodies recognise a common cold when they see one. The way they see it, it is better to let the lady whine on and on for a week than waste their effort on something so trivial. As they would tell her, if she would ask, when she gets an exotic tropical disease someday, she will be very impressed at how quickly they rush into action. To make it all worse, or perhaps just to rub it in, the lady started taking this extra strength cold medicine (for nursing women) before noticing that the instructions say "Take one packet every four hours, do not exceed three packets in a 24 hour period". As you may have noted, this leaves out 12 hours of the day. At moments like this the lady misses America, who know how to do cold medicine in such a way that one packet will knock you out until the cold and flu season is over. So the lady only has 7 or so hours until the 24 hour period is over, but she's not sure she'll make it. A Little About Carol Dunn Carol Dunn is a former Management Consultant. She has lived in England, Russia, Kazakstan, Belarus and Ukraine, but is currently residing happily with her husband and son in the Washington DC area. They are expecting a daughter in July.