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<blockquote data-quote="Pink Elephant" data-source="post: 719759" data-attributes="member: 21572"><p>Boy, the younger generation today has no idea how things used to be and what people had to go through on a regular basis to get by. An easy life it wasn't.</p><p></p><p>As a mom, I always referred to the 2 am waking-up call of a crying baby as being the "witching hour", and I remember waking to the witching hour when I used to share my room with a siblings in a crib. Running for a bottle, fetching a diaper from the stack, down with baby's rubber pants, out with the pins... fresh diaper applied, tug rubber pants back up and into place over freshly changed diaper, then back to bed.</p><p></p><p>ROFL, about getting clunked on the head with a glass baby bottle! I can safely say I never had that happen to me, but I did get a glass bottle in the nose, courtesy of one of my sons one day, and it hurt so bad my eyes watered.</p><p></p><p>Also remember being so tired that my body wouldn't allow me to fully wake to a crying sibling, and in mom would come with a cigarette dangling from her mouth. She'd flick the light switch on (think BRIGHT)... and go about addressing baby's needs. I think I hated being woken to a bright room light at 2 am, more than anything, but as a kid I was always able to roll over again when all was said and done, and I'd be out like a lamp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pink Elephant, post: 719759, member: 21572"] Boy, the younger generation today has no idea how things used to be and what people had to go through on a regular basis to get by. An easy life it wasn't. As a mom, I always referred to the 2 am waking-up call of a crying baby as being the "witching hour", and I remember waking to the witching hour when I used to share my room with a siblings in a crib. Running for a bottle, fetching a diaper from the stack, down with baby's rubber pants, out with the pins... fresh diaper applied, tug rubber pants back up and into place over freshly changed diaper, then back to bed. ROFL, about getting clunked on the head with a glass baby bottle! I can safely say I never had that happen to me, but I did get a glass bottle in the nose, courtesy of one of my sons one day, and it hurt so bad my eyes watered. Also remember being so tired that my body wouldn't allow me to fully wake to a crying sibling, and in mom would come with a cigarette dangling from her mouth. She'd flick the light switch on (think BRIGHT)... and go about addressing baby's needs. I think I hated being woken to a bright room light at 2 am, more than anything, but as a kid I was always able to roll over again when all was said and done, and I'd be out like a lamp. [/QUOTE]
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