Keeping Momma upright
While Esther hasn’t really started showing yet, she’s getting ready to and finally science has provided an answer to why pregnant mothers don’t topple over due to all of that front leaning weight
Evolution provided slight differences from men in women’s lower backs and hip joints, allowing them to adjust their center of gravity
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Harvard anthropology researcher Katherine Whitcomb found two physical differences in male and female backs that until now had gone unnoticed: One lower lumbar vertebra is wedged-shaped in women and more square in men; and a key hip joint is 14 percent larger in women than men when body size is taken into account.
Now I’m not a “big” guy… but sometimes Esther and I compare our baby bumps (I hate that term) and right now I’m winning, I am ashamed to say. Why don’t I fall over? Not cool hip and back bones… nope.
But what about men with stomachs the size of babies or bigger? What keeps them from toppling over?Their back muscles are used to compensate, but that probably means more back pain, theorized Shapiro, who added: “It would be a fun study to do to look at men with beer bellies to see if they shift their loads.”Filed under Dad's View by Jered | Comment (0)
Spider-sense is tingling
Today, Esther and I went to Target, initially just to look. Esther decided that we should start registering for baby “stuff”. While she was getting the registry setup and the barcode gun, I was left to wander in the light pink, blue and yellow sea.
I was filled with a odd sense of being overwhelmed. I read a post from Rands earlier today which described my situation to a T.
[I] see the world as a system which, given enough time and effort, is completely knowable. This is a fragile illusion that your nerd has adopted, but it’s a pleasant one that gets your nerd through the day.
This is the problem that I am facing. The whole “baby” thing, and “being a parent”, those are two things which I have no clue on. It is not the “Will I screw my child up?” question. I think I’ve got that down, or if not, would I be able to tell? The real questions I have are things like:
- When does a baby need a pacifier, if it even needs one?
- Does everything need to be sterilized/bleach/sanitized?
- How does one hold a baby?
- How does one change a baby’s diaper?
You may laugh at this, but the last time I held or changed a diaper was the plastic training doll in Red Cross babysitter training.
The only thing I know is that I have an amazing wife / mother of my child and that with her, there will be nothing that we can’t over come together.
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