If you're cool and calm when faced with that new
baby comes in your door, chances are that your dog will be, too.
Not exact matches
It speaks to the satisfactions I've found recently through intentional encounters with the unscreened world:
in helping my neighbor load up his
baby pigs; putting my phone
in a tray as I
come through the front
door so that I remember to give my kids my whole self; observing the way the Benedictine monks on the hill near my home bow
in greeting one another and the way their eyes pierce me — greeting me, the stranger, as a guest, as Christ.
I leave the
door to his room open (because a closed
door leads to him screaming and banging at it after a few minutes) and do my best to get
baby down QUICKLY
in that time before the toddler train
comes barreling into her room.
I mean sometimes, the biggest thing for a mom who's maybe 4 - 6 postpartum is just getting out the
door and then
coming to a place where you can just be and you can practice having your
baby cry
in public and you're with a whole bunch of moms who don't care»cause all of theirs are crying.
When we
came back we moved his crib out and put
in a bunk bed that he shares with his sister, and added a
baby gate to the
door and he settled into a good new routine.
It's easy to just stop accepting your mother
in law's phone calls or avoid answering the
door when she
comes for an unexpected visit but such actions are not fair to you, your
baby, or your husband.
We didn't need guests
coming over for extended visits and endless cups of tea, we didn't need my father -
in - law «popping
in» to photograph the finally sleeping
baby, and we didn't need people knocking on the
door offering to fix my apparently unhinged roof tiles.
It can be so busy
in that first week with visitors
coming and going, flowers arriving and the postman knocking on the
door with yet more presents that your forget to have a few minutes a day to simply «be» with your
baby, just the two of you.
Or better yet, crawl over to the
door, so it will hit the
baby when the parents try to
come in.
My husband
came up with a great pet - safe zone, originally because he has allergies if the pets sleep on his bed, but it works great with the
baby; we put a screen
door up
in her room!
Lots of non-violent, non-gory but otherwise unsettling scenes worth mentioning: many «jump» scenes when people or objects startle others; we hear some noises during the night
in many scenes (creaking
doors and floorboards, screams, eerie whispers, doorknobs turning, pounding at
doors) and
doors slam shut as people run past them; we see eerie carvings and sculptures throughout a house, a maelstrom and sculptures
come alive and scream and a skeleton sits up abruptly; a ghostly face is seen at a window and
in a ceiling, windows become eyes, ghostly children are seen a few times (
in one scene, a ghostly
baby from a sculpture crawls under the sheets as a woman lies
in bed) and a woman's hair is braided by invisible hands.
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And on top of that, traditional publishers, because of the lack of education of most writers
in business, have
come to treat writers who do get
in the
door like they are
babies who can't think for themselves and need their diapers changed.
Real dogs not only must be housetrained - most owners are aware of that need; they also must be taught not to chew the furniture, taught not to jump on their owners, taught not to play - bite, taught not to bowl over the toddler, taught not to dig holes
in the yard, taught to
come when they are called, taught not to eat the homework or the woodwork, taught not to swipe food off the table, taught not to growl at strangers or bark at the mail carrier, taught to walk on a leash without dragging their owner down the block, taught to allow their toenails to be cut and their coats to be groomed without biting the groomer, taught not to shred feather pillows and down comforters, taught not to steal the
baby's toys, taught not to growl at their owner's mother -
in - law, taught to sit, stay, and to lay down when and where the owner tells them to, and to wait there until the owner says they may get up (absolutely essential commands for the dog's own safety), taught not to escape out the front
door or out of the yard or out of the car when the owner looks away for just a second... all of these things and many more are not «natural» canine behaviors; they must be taught by owners who are willing to spend the time and the effort doing so.
Another good, relatively cheap idea that is worth a try is to keep
baby wipes near the
door she
comes in after urinating and wipe her.
«While she was
in the bathroom,» Chief Dyer said, «the dog
came through the
door, grabbed the infant and took that
baby outside.»
Years ago we lived
in Reno, NV and one day I opened our back
door and our Goldendoodle Phoebe
came running
in chasing
baby quail.
Okay so I know I'm not your sister, I no longer have kids
in school (my
baby will be 32 at the end of the month but I still have people
coming in and dropping stuff near the
door.