Will someone explain to me why, when I leave the house with my baby I need to take a huge bag containing nappies, wipes, a spare dummy, tissues, spare clothes, a container of crackers and a toy but when my husband leaves the house with the baby, as he has just done, he just takes the baby?
Why is he so confident that nothing will go wrong? Why is he so presumptuous to think she won't do one of her 6 daily poos while they are at the shop? What does he plan on settling her with when she starts screaming in hunger because it has been at least 15 minutes since she last ate? Will he just use her own sleeve to wipe her nose when it starts to run? Give her a Mars Bar to chew on when she cries?
I'm not sure what I am more upset about. The blatant cockiness that he doesn't need any of the accoutrements and doohickeys that I pack religiously in the event of baby melt-down. Or the fact that absolutely nothing will go wrong for him anyway.
LIFE WITH THREE KIDS: parenting is relentless... and chaos is beautiful.
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After reading this post I did the unthinkable and went to the shops with one baby and one handbag, said handbag containing nothing that a baby requires. And I survived! In fact I can't remember the last time I actually needed to change his nappy while out at the shops - probably over six months ago! Why do I carry all this stuff around? JUST IN CASE. Men don't have a just in case compartment in their brains, obviously.
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