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metaphortunate) wrote2015-04-01 09:39 pm
metaphortunate) wrote2015-04-01 09:39 pm
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two of a kind family
Who was it I was talking to about the luck of having two kids of the same sex?
Because it does feel like an escape. See, if I'd had a boy and a girl, I know in my soul that I would be absolutely convinced at this point that there are real differences between boys and girls, even at the age of like a year, and that I knew because I had seen them.
If the Junebug had been a girl I would be convinced that I had hard evidence that it's true that boy babies cry more than girls. If Rocket had been a girl I would be convinced that, wow: girls really do show so much more affection and emotion than boys. Even at such a young age.
But they're both boys, so what I have hard evidence for is that n=2 doesn't mean shit. Kids vary.
Because it does feel like an escape. See, if I'd had a boy and a girl, I know in my soul that I would be absolutely convinced at this point that there are real differences between boys and girls, even at the age of like a year, and that I knew because I had seen them.
If the Junebug had been a girl I would be convinced that I had hard evidence that it's true that boy babies cry more than girls. If Rocket had been a girl I would be convinced that, wow: girls really do show so much more affection and emotion than boys. Even at such a young age.
But they're both boys, so what I have hard evidence for is that n=2 doesn't mean shit. Kids vary.
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With E I mostly did it the same way I clean poop off A -- just wipe a lot with the wet wipes -- except that I used a lot more wet wipes with E and angsted a LOT more about the possibility of giving her a UTI by missing a crevice, whereas if I don't completely wipe the crevice between A's leg and crotch, I just get it the next time. (She never actually got a UTI from a poopy vulva, thank goodness, but I angsted a lot about the potential.)