Wednesday, 21 May 2008
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Clipping the Itty-Bitty Nails
I read both Baby Laughs and Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy and I gotta tell ya, sometimes when I read her books I think I'm her or that she's me. She wrote about how she was soo scared to cut her son's fingernails when he was a baby and how she just covered his hands for weeks. That's me. Only I like Baby Platypus gripping onto my finger so I don't like covering them.
I first had my sister-in-law cut her finger nails for me. She cut her by accident and there was a lil bit of bleeding which is why ICANTDOIT. Mmmhmm. Then my girlfriend came to visit me with her son and I conned her into cutting her fingernails for me. She finished her left hand, cut her thumb by accident, and refused to do the right. I got my brother in law to do the right hand the next day.
Finally I got around to doing it on my own a couple of weeks ago. I was sooo nervous. I was sweating profusely. I changed the lamp bulb from 25 to 60. I would have gotten a 100 watts but I couldn't remember where I stored it. The key is to do it while they're sleeping so there's less movement. Guess what? I did it! And without cutting her! I was sooo proud of myself.
Now they've grown back and I have to do it again. I'm all nervous again... is it just me, or have you felt scared about clipping baby fingernails?
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Comments (10)
Congrats! My sister in law is always afraid of cutting my nephews nails so she bites them off. Then i was reading in a baby book and thats actually what they suggested! I don't know what she is going to do when he is older though and they are to hard to bite!
@Beach_Bum_Babe09 - wow, now that's love!!
what about filing those suckers down... is that possible?
I get scared when I am clipping my own nails. Scared of messing them up that is. I remember trying to cut my brother's nails when he was a toddler (he is 9 years younger). That was scary too.
It isn't just you! I was terrified to cut my son's nails. I made him bleed once or twice. But believe me, cutting a newborn's fingernails is WAY easier than cutting a toddler's fingernails. We do battle every week to get it done, and I think the risk of cutting him is much higher now because he moves so darn much.
I was scared until I cut their little fingers. Then I realized that it's okay--they live. Is that bad of me?
I'm like you, though. I need the light of a thousand suns, sleeping child and absolutely no distractions to do it. Or I make the husband do it.
Enjoy it now while they don't argue. My 4 year old starts a battle each time we need to cut his nails, and he usually convinces us to give him something, just to let us do it. Sneaky kid.
My son is 2 1/2 and I still don't do it...the hubby does it, thank goodness. It's a lot of pressure! Too much for me!
Dear Lord. I know how that goes. At Thanksgiving, I was doing my cousin's daughter's nails and I cut one a little too deep. It wouldn't quit bleeding because my cousin wouldn't leave pressure on the baby's SMALL cut so we took her to the ER. They guilted me into buying a new outfit for her....ugh.
I read that book back during my last pregnancy and loved it! I was nervous about cutting my first baby's nails and would try to avoid cutting them as much as possible. His nails would get so long! With this baby though I cut them when she was only 2 days old! So you get used to it...
I have never, in my son's 18 months of life, cut his fingernails. I'm almost legally blind. I don't trust myself to do it! So, my husband being so precise is in charge of that. Thank goodness!