Bringing Up Baby

I’ve been caught in some kind of mad baby rush month! Helen is expecting again, and Jon and Nan are trying for another bundle of joy to add to their already sizeable family, and the girl two doors down from us just had her baby shower. I swear, I’m a minority what with my life being blissfully free of the responsibility of children (actually, I intend to chat about that in a later blog post).

It’s not that I don’t like children, I do but I don’t have room for them in my life and I doubt I would be a very good mother due to lack of finances and patience.

Besides that, Laota and I have our hands too full taking care of our grown mother and step father to worry about things like buying the right bed for the baby, hospital fees, parenting classes and baby names.

Especially hard are baby names if you lean towards very manly names for boys and very girly names for girls. In fact the gender of the child can be a big problem if you don’t know far enough in advance whether your bit of bliss is a Boy or Girl.

But, thanks to modern technology, at least that part’s solved. There’s a gender test you can take that’s apparently faster than a pregnancy test. The urine gender test works pretty much the same way as a regular pregnancy test, only a bit more controlled in it’s application. It’s a pretty good gender predictor that can tell you as early as 6 weeks into your pregnancy what gender your little baby’s going to be.

Modern technology never ceases to amaze me. Little advancements in practical science change the way we live in the most profound ways. Imagine knowing for sure that you’re going to have a baby girl 100 years ago, only 6 weeks into the pregancy?

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