I learned last week that what the mom eats a ton of . . . the baby is also eating via the momma milk. Yeah, as a scientist I knew this, but a particular episode brought the idea home. I did a little last minute Christmas shopping on Monday last week. While in line, I had the impulse to buy a big bag of cherry twizzlers. Oh I know they are pure sugar and plastic, but taste so good when you have a craving for them. Well, once home, I did share the twizzlers with Brian, but pretty much finished the entire bag of them in the next 24hours. And they were very good. Now a breast-fed baby's poo is yellowish because of the milk he's getting. As parents, we aren't to freak out until it is red or black (for blood). After my plastic-sugar goodness eating binge, lo - and -behold, Tam's poo was an amazing shade of grass green. What?! Yep...too much sugar in the milk from mom. Don't worry, it went back to normal after 2 diapers. I can't say I won't eat twizzlers again but I will try to control myself and not gobble them all at once! Sheesh.
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I'd make fun of your for all of your baby poop conversations, but I'm quite certain I'll be doing the same thing when it comes my time. Evolution is a difficult thing to fight.
Though I've *never* understood how you could eat Twizzlers. It's like chewing on a plastic cable.
A baby deer is a fawn. Baby lions, tigers, and bears are cubs. A baby canine is a pup. What's a baby moose?
James, I had to look it up, but I wasn't rewarded for my curiosity:
Baby moose are calves, which is pretty lame and applies to most ungulates -- I'm not sure why deer/fawns get a special word.
HANNA FTW!
Fawns gets their own name because (a) they are cuter and (b) they have a movement that is more graceful and flolicking than any other hoofed mammals (yes, I know what an ungulate is).
Ungulate. The very name makes one think of a slow, easy, I-can-do-this-all-day, ka-THUMP ka-THUMP, kind of gait. Mrs. Teasdale, in a dress that made her resemble Clarabelle Cow, slowly ungulated across the ballroom towards the bar.
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