Well, I have nursed six babies, so far, and never have my kids thought anything of it. To them, it's just normal. I guess that is all over with now! The boys have been asking me lately why Daddy can't feed the baby (and I wonder the same thing)...I told them it's the same reason daddies can't be pregnant, because they are wimps and no babies would ever get born if daddies were in charge of it!
Well, my littlest has been on table food for awhile now, along with nursing. I sat him down with some KFC the other day, and he loved it. The other kids all had a picnic in the living room, so we were all just hanging out together. Donovan did well with his biscuits and macaroni, but he didn't seem too interested in the chicken. I finally sat with him on the couch to nurse him once more before he went to bed. For some reason, he just wouldn't do it. He would try and then just scream and scream. This brought all the older kids running, because, being elder siblings, they are certian that they know more about babies than I do. So, as they are all standing around, I reached into the baby's mouth and pulled out a HUGE wad of chicken that he had stuck to the roof of his mouth. This was causing all the problems. I laughed and watched my younger kids disperse, confident that they had saved their baby brother from whatever was getting him. The oldest two got the most weirded out looks on their faces and inched away from me on the couch. I saw Warrick's troubled look and asked him what was wrong. "I thought Donovan was supposed to only have milk.", he said. I explained that he was finally getting old enough for some other foods. Still with that weird look on his face (with Huston, equally perplexed, looking over his shoulder), he said, "But you said only milk came out of those! Does the chicken that you ate come out for the baby, too???" LMAO!!! I was sitting there, nursing the baby and eating chicking, and suddenly, I pull chicken out of the baby's mouth, so Warrick had come to the only logical conclusion. Huston had as well, from the look on his face but he refused to discuss, as usual.
