mama jake wrote:
>
> I just got a call from a bfing mom who was reading the inserts in her
> new pump.  It had a list of indications that require a call to the doc
> one of which was that the baby had "breath sweet like candy."  For the
> record I went through the usual drill with her to assure myself in fact
> there were no problems with her babe. No.  She just said, "All my babies
> have breath sweet as candy."  <grin>  I assured her that mine did too.
> We then moved on to how good babies' heads smell.
>
> It is so nice to get calls like that sometimes.
>
> Jake

Based on all the letters about bathing from a few months ago, I chose
not to bathe my new baby in the hospital.  I *loved* the smell of him
and just couldn't stop smelling him at every opportunity (a thousand
times an hour :).  In fact today he is 24 days old and hasn't yet had a
bath, but I have used a damp cloth to wipe him bottom and neck when
necessary.  He smells so sweet, I'm a little sad for what their father
and I missed out on with our first three.  I also learned enough to be
able to 'defy' hospital policy and sleep with my baby, with the bed
sides up, and carry him in a sling and not push that plastic aquarium
around.  Every time I ventured down the hall, I was stopped by oodles of
mums asking me about the sling, several were really impressed when they
noticed my baby was actually happily latched on as well :)

Gitte
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