Not Turkey Jerky
Yeahhhhh.
That whole umbilical cord thing. All of the pamphlets, handouts, magazine articles, and doctors say that in about 1-2 weeks your baby's umbilical stump will naturally fall off. But what they don't say....they say nothing of the horror if you happen to be in the vicinity when the stump does fall off.
Last week, Dax's umbilical stump was hanging on by its last thread. It was only a matter of time before it fell off. Then I started to change his diaper. As I pulled the front of his diaper from him, the stump got caught on my fingers.
Think about the time you had that scab on your arm that was about to fall off. But then it got caught on your jacket, or on the couch, or on your bike. That microsecond of slight pain that hits you as the scab prematurely comes off.
Multiply that feeling a few thousand times and you'll start to understand how I felt as Dax's umbilical stump stretched from his body before my eyes, in slow motion mind you, before finally giving way. The horror.
Apparently, that high pitched scream of pain was NOT emanating from Dax. It was in my mind. Dax was fine. He just lay there with his legs kicking and arms flailing. A look of content on his face.