{"id":46,"date":"2008-08-16T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelorigans.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2009-06-20T21:57:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T04:57:52","slug":"baby-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Baby Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks Shae and I have attended a couple of baby-related classes (which I&#8217;ve already written about), and they&#8217;ve thrown out a few facts and figures.  I thought I&#8217;d do the math on some of these and share.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to our Baby Care Basics class, newborn babies go through about 10-12 diapers a day.  Since these kids are mine it&#8217;s probably safe to assume they&#8217;re going to be closer to 12 a day.  So, with two kids that means these little things are going to use 24 diapers a day.  You know how many that is a week?  168!  A month (we&#8217;ll use 30 days)? 720!  What the hell?!?!  720 diapers a month?  Crap.  Literally.<\/li>\n<li>Towards the end of the Childbirth Prep class we were informed that babies should be fed 8-12 times a day.  Because it makes math easier, we&#8217;ll feed our kids 10 times a day.  Each.  So 20 times a day a baby is going to be latched onto wifey&#8217;s boob(s).  Wow.<\/li>\n<li>Also at the Childbirth Prep class we learned that the average baby sleeps 13 &#8211; 17 hours a day.  I&#8217;m all for more sleeping so this isn&#8217;t one of the scary facts.  I&#8217;m assuming my kids are going to sleep 17 hours a day because it makes me feel better.<\/li>\n<li>Something doesn&#8217;t add up here.  If babies sleep 17 hours a day, how the hell can they eat 10 times a day and still have time to mess up 12 diapers?  Even assuming they multi-task and take care of the diapers while sleeping and eating they still seem to have a pretty busy day.  No wonder kids these days are over scheduled, they&#8217;re overbooked the day they pop out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t posted a picture of pregnant Shae lately, so we took another one yesterday. I think she&#8217;s gotten a little bigger since <a href=\"?p=37\">last time we posted a pic<\/a>.  Let&#8217;s just say Shae + (2 babies * ~32 weeks) =<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/pallenlo\/BabyStuff\/photo#5234914462111822322\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/pallenlo\/SKYm96-68fI\/AAAAAAAACbI\/Zb3bXUfilCo\/s400\/IMG_1561.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/pallenlo\/BabyStuff\/photo#5234914506815326962\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/pallenlo\/SKYnAhhESvI\/AAAAAAAACbM\/_kBHfX8t4Fo\/s400\/IMG_1563.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As you can see in the second pic, Shae&#8217;s shirt (thanks Mom!) has two very true messages.  There are twins in Shae&#8217;s belly, and her twins are moving south.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it seems like everyone nests differently.  Some clean, some get the baby room ready, and some make new mirrors for the master bathroom.  You can guess where Shae falls.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/pallenlo\/House\/photo#5234912930715364674\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/pallenlo\/SKYlkyFjbUI\/AAAAAAAACbA\/YSolgbOcMVs\/s400\/IMG_1566.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/pallenlo\/House\/photo#5234912902156321490\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/pallenlo\/SKYljHsjAtI\/AAAAAAAACa8\/9dSG6i6yyBI\/s400\/IMG_1567.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks Shae and I have attended a couple of baby-related classes (which I&#8217;ve already written about), and they&#8217;ve thrown out a few facts and figures. I thought I&#8217;d do the math on some of these and share. According to our Baby Care Basics class, newborn babies go through about 10-12 diapers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house","category-pregnant","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}