Comments on: Of Blood and Babies http://leftcoastmama.net/2009/11/05/of-blood-and-babies/ Making Things Write on the Wrong Coast Tue, 22 May 2012 03:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Marilyn (A Lot of Loves) http://leftcoastmama.net/2009/11/05/of-blood-and-babies/comment-page-1/#comment-238983 Marilyn (A Lot of Loves) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:44:04 +0000 http://leftcoastmama.net/?p=795#comment-238983 I take the kids with me most places I go. I have too. I'm in the same position of you where I can't leave the kid with other people all that often and my husband can't always be here either. Sometimes you just have to take the kids along. They've come with me to doctor's appointments and such. I've so far managed to avoid taking them to the dentist and I wouldn't take them to donate blood - but that's do more to the length of the appointment rather than the blood bit. (My son cannot sit still for any length of time at all.) They come along on shopping trips and to the grocery store too. I will admit that if I can arrange to do this stuff by myself I do just because it's easier but sometimes it can't be helped. .-= Marilyn (A Lot of Loves)´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/alotofloves/qrMW/~3/w5_gXhXAy4Y/tip-of-day-removing-broken-egg-shell.html" rel="nofollow">Tip of the Day: Removing Broken Egg Shell Bits</a> =-. I take the kids with me most places I go. I have too. I’m in the same position of you where I can’t leave the kid with other people all that often and my husband can’t always be here either. Sometimes you just have to take the kids along. They’ve come with me to doctor’s appointments and such. I’ve so far managed to avoid taking them to the dentist and I wouldn’t take them to donate blood – but that’s do more to the length of the appointment rather than the blood bit. (My son cannot sit still for any length of time at all.) They come along on shopping trips and to the grocery store too. I will admit that if I can arrange to do this stuff by myself I do just because it’s easier but sometimes it can’t be helped.
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]]> By: Sandi http://leftcoastmama.net/2009/11/05/of-blood-and-babies/comment-page-1/#comment-238887 Sandi Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:01:46 +0000 http://leftcoastmama.net/?p=795#comment-238887 My dad used to bring us with him when he would donate blood. I don't remember being weirded out by it, it was just something that my dad did. As for getting other stuff done like the dentist and whatnot I agree with you. There are some places, like the dentist, that I don't want to bring the kids with me. When I was home with the kids I'd have to schedule someone to come and watch them while I ran to my appointment. I do recall that because it was such a hassle that I too would just not go. For tasks like shopping the husband and I will split up and we each take a kid and tackle different places. It is much easier to wrangle one child! I think I'm going to have to get Christmas shopping done either online after the kids to go bed, or during my lunch break because there is no way I'm taking them to the mall! My dad used to bring us with him when he would donate blood. I don’t remember being weirded out by it, it was just something that my dad did.

As for getting other stuff done like the dentist and whatnot I agree with you. There are some places, like the dentist, that I don’t want to bring the kids with me. When I was home with the kids I’d have to schedule someone to come and watch them while I ran to my appointment. I do recall that because it was such a hassle that I too would just not go.

For tasks like shopping the husband and I will split up and we each take a kid and tackle different places. It is much easier to wrangle one child! I think I’m going to have to get Christmas shopping done either online after the kids to go bed, or during my lunch break because there is no way I’m taking them to the mall!

]]> By: Mary http://leftcoastmama.net/2009/11/05/of-blood-and-babies/comment-page-1/#comment-238787 Mary Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:58:23 +0000 http://leftcoastmama.net/?p=795#comment-238787 Next time you guys are down, if you think Aidan would be interested I can show him the lab and a bit of what happens with the blood once it leaves you. Next time you guys are down, if you think Aidan would be interested I can show him the lab and a bit of what happens with the blood once it leaves you.

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