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A Smattering
It has been a little hard to focus lately, in part because just staying awake and remembering to buy more paper towels is a feat onto itself, but also I find I'm hyperaware and a bit worried about how my parenting has a new audience. The Felix, who was once only the recipient of my strategies, is now something of a critic, and since he has all sorts of newly discovered language skills, he is making his opinions and general ruminations known.
I have been quite concerned about his reactions to his new sibling, who doesn't do much yet, but I have tried to let them get to know each other. This is all right, I suppose and I was charmed when, Felix announced, in the middle of one of those tricky newborn crying/wailing jags that Sebastian had gotten on, that his brother "Sounds like a sheep." Indeed, he did and it was a funny thing to say that made the unhappy infant less problematic for me.
But now Felix has taken to poking gently at his sibling and saying, "I want to make the baby cry."
I fear this is somehow my doing, either for being so amused at Felix's comment or for unconsciously creating a situation where he would be so cranky for attention that he feels he must prod his brother.
Of course, of course, if this is the worst that happens, I'm in good shape, I know, but remember, all of my cylinders aren't really firing.
But enough of my navel gazing (and yes, it is still MUCH TOO EASY for me to gaze at it, but such is the effect of lots of malted milk balls).
Something of some interest, because I hadn't really thought about it, is this interview with writer Liza Mundy that Salon just ran. Mundy has a book out now called Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men Women and the World, and I was a bit surprised at some of the negative things she had to say about assisted reproduction. Generally I'm more than happy to embrace thoughts of evil corporations, but am less sanguine when it comes to contemplating the downside of assisted reproduction from the point of view of the people who want so badly to become parents. It is so difficult not to feel horrible when reading Mundy's very logical discussion of the problems of assisted reproduction when one knows so many people who have been made immeasurably happy as a result of it.
But then, I haven't read the book and given the backlog of material I need to get through that I've been shoving under the bed, it is unlikely I'll manage it.
posted by Elise at 1:24 PM
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