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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 106582" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>difficult child 3's 'thing' is towelling. He was born in midsummer, we have no air conditioning. Even the hospital - no air conditioning. So with the post-pregnancy late in life hormones wreaking havoc, I walked around dripping with sweat, so I carried a cloth nappy, or hand towel. Because he fed so much, I would lie him on his side to sleep, with the towel I had been using tucked underneath his cheek to catch 'overflows'. My towel was catching not only my sweat but also my overflow of milk; I would hold it on the side not currently being drained, to avoid drenching my clothes. While he slept with towel no 1, I was then walking around with towel no 2. When he got up from his nap, towel no 1 went in the wash. By the end of 24 hours, there would be three hand towels in the wash (maybe more). Sometimes I would rinse them out and leave them to dry (took half an hour, in the summer heat).</p><p></p><p>So difficult child 3, from his earliest moments, was getting used to the combined smell of my sweat and milk plus the feel of the towelling. I created a monster! Wherever we went through his early years, he had to have a towel handy. We carried one in the car which he would fold as a cushion, if he wanted to sleep. He would hold it as well as put his face against it. He's not as obsessed as he was, but he still likes towelling.</p><p></p><p>As for me, what do I do? Gardening, especially pottering around my herbs. Cooking sometimes, making pot pourri which includes some aromatherapy blending from pure essential oils, and doing Sudoku.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 106582, member: 1991"] difficult child 3's 'thing' is towelling. He was born in midsummer, we have no air conditioning. Even the hospital - no air conditioning. So with the post-pregnancy late in life hormones wreaking havoc, I walked around dripping with sweat, so I carried a cloth nappy, or hand towel. Because he fed so much, I would lie him on his side to sleep, with the towel I had been using tucked underneath his cheek to catch 'overflows'. My towel was catching not only my sweat but also my overflow of milk; I would hold it on the side not currently being drained, to avoid drenching my clothes. While he slept with towel no 1, I was then walking around with towel no 2. When he got up from his nap, towel no 1 went in the wash. By the end of 24 hours, there would be three hand towels in the wash (maybe more). Sometimes I would rinse them out and leave them to dry (took half an hour, in the summer heat). So difficult child 3, from his earliest moments, was getting used to the combined smell of my sweat and milk plus the feel of the towelling. I created a monster! Wherever we went through his early years, he had to have a towel handy. We carried one in the car which he would fold as a cushion, if he wanted to sleep. He would hold it as well as put his face against it. He's not as obsessed as he was, but he still likes towelling. As for me, what do I do? Gardening, especially pottering around my herbs. Cooking sometimes, making pot pourri which includes some aromatherapy blending from pure essential oils, and doing Sudoku. Marg [/QUOTE]
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