I’m beginning to wonder whether the babies’ energy level during their monitoring session yesterday morning was less a rebellion against a particular nurse and more an establishment of a new routine. They simply haven’t cooperated with any monitoring lately, much to their mother’s embarrassment. If I can’t control my kids now, when will I be able to control them? 🙂 Don’t answer that….!
This must be yet another lesson that I need to learn – picking my battles. “OK, girlies…” (I’m talking to my belly now), “I’ll let you wiggle and giggle your way through your monitoring session this evening and even all day tomorrow. But come Tuesday (the day of the next NST), you need to start behaving like the good girls I know you are. Besides, you don’t want to work off all those hard-earned calories just yet, do you? We need every one of those calories for your next weigh-in!”
We’ll see if our heart-to-heart (or mouth-to-belly) conversation was successful. If not, I may have to resort to the notorious parenting lesson I’ve been hearing so much about…bribery!
Although I haven’t had the joy of parenting quite yet, I must as a special ed teacher working with the severe and profound disabilities, bribery is a beautiful thing and one that should never be overlooked! Never under-estimate how powerful it is and man oh man can it get the job done!!! (Not sure how this whole process will work in womb however but in a few months when these little ones are born, you bettcha it will work!) Thanks for the laughter each morning. Smiles-Brittny