omg..for the next 4 days, i have a simulation baby for my parenting class. that means i have a plastic doll that will cry and i have to tend to it's every need. ugh..

i just got it, only a half hour ago and i'm soooo scared. i just don't want it to cry. i swear that i'm going to be in tears before this baby crys b/c i'm so stressed about it right now.

so i'm sitting here scared out of my mind, not knowing when this thing will cry or what i would do when it does. i musta been crazy to sign up for this class.

see you guys in chat

[Kayleigh]

hehe, I remember those things. Everytime it cried during the night I fell out of my bed in terror (It doesn't sound like a crying baby, it sounds like a satan posessed piece of plastic, at least mine did). It "slept" in my dresser drawer, and when I took a shower it got to hang out on the bathroom counter... and yet I got a perfect score... good luck with it... I know by the end I was ready to tear little mechanical baby apart limb by limb, hopefully you don't reach the same level of sleep deprived insanity.

[shakes]

Wow I kinda feel glad that I never took that class. You never know it may be interesting. Most of what I have heard from people was that because of that experience they do not want children for a long long time.

Jessica

[SeptemberMorn]

ROFLMAO!!!! That's exactly the purpose of that class... not make you NOT want a baby any time soon! LOL I'm afraid that wouldn't have worked with me. From the age of 14 I wanted a baby SOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD!!

Just relax! When it cries, check it's diaper, offer it a bottle or just change it's position. LOL Or whatever it is you have to do, but that, along with just holding it and rocking it will satisfy any baby. Well... unless it has colic. LOL Then just burp it... DON'T FORGET TO BURP IT... and rub it's precious little tummy until it farts. LMAO

But yeah, it will turn into sleep deprived insanity. hehehe What I'd give to start all over again. (sigh!)

Those to me, my dear girls, were the best years of my life.

[Kayleigh]

I love babies, but I'm glad I don't have any yet. I guess I am looking forward to having some. Yeah, that crying plastic baby doll didn't change my mind for a second about kids... but I have changed my mind a few times... mostly after my baby cousin was born, and did she ever have colic... lol... THAT will make you think twice about having a kid!

[Wants2Fly]

Can you take the battery out?

[SweetCrusader]

Don't you just have to turn a little key in their back when they cry? That's all the kids in my high school had to do.

[Kayleigh]

I did that in middle school.... is it a high school thing elsewhere? And that stupid key gave me callouses... oh well, they've had 5 years to heal by now.... lol.... I'm such a baby...

Boy did i feel like whacking a few people by the time i got home today. Great day, i had drill team practice..in the rain with the kid. at least it didn't cry. it didn't cry at all until i was just getting out of the car at my house and it hasn't shut up since.

yes, there is a key. this is how it works. baby cries, stick the key in its back. if it beeps it wants to be fed or changed. if it doesn't, it's being fussy and just wants to be rocked. boy does that thing eat a lot. i've fed it 4 times in 2 and a half hours.

i've got to be insane though, i never want kids. even before this i didn't want kids. this isn't too bad though. it's just the getting used to it and making sure you don't flip back it's head.

btw, thanks sept for the advice, if you want to take this baby you are welcome to any time. and sky, you can't take out the battery, at the end of the project a computer reads a whole bunch of different information.

if you wanna see what it's like, you could go to their website to see what it's all about at www.btio.com

ty guys, ttyl

[wisewoman]

"in my time" ha ha we had boiled eggs we had to keep from being cracked. So enjoy the electronic toy and see what you can learn. I personally think it's hysterical.

oh, so does my mom. the first time it cried she wanted to try her hand at it and i thought i'd let her since she should be "experienced". great job she did, she ended up flipping the head back and making the baby cry worse than it was.

[SeptemberMorn]

LMAO!! That should teach you not to trust anyone with your kid. LOL That's so funny!!

[(JD)]

hey don't blame me for suggesting to take out the battery! I think that was FLY lol

Can't you rock it before it cries and hold off the crying for a while? My sons slept in my bed, or a bassinet from day one... sigh... well the second one was a little more difficult than the first... too bad you don't get the comfort and cooing and love back from those things like you do with real babies... but then, you don't have the smells either!

Sep's exactly right... they make girls and guys both do this so you all understand the basic responsiblities of taking care of someone else... imagine not just 4 days... but a lifetime.

oh, sorry sky!! i'm out of it, hehe. i meant wants2. hehe oops. but it coos. whenever you do something it likes it'll coo, or just whenever when it's happy

[Kayleigh]

man, they've obviously made some technological advances since I had mine. Our school could only afford 2 of the the "new" babies that had wobbly heads. I didn't want one of those, b/c that meant extra work, so I got a slightly heavier one with a solid neck and a lack of sensors, which was good, because I accidentily rammed it's leg against a desk in a mad dash for the phone. If it were real it would have had a little baby broken leg!

[Leslie]

((((((((((((((((sleepy))))))))))))))))
I wonder how much sleep you will get tonight. I am really enjoying this thread. LOLOL I wish I could be there to help you, or would that be cheating?

Take care of that baby and have a good night,
Leslie

[jbug]

wow a real doll all I got was an egg and my math teacher murdered it. He was a large man and he walked past my desk and knocked it off onto the floor so no more "baby"...I got an F on the assignment because when asked its habits etc I said he was murdered shortly after birth so didn't have a chance. I was told I didn't take it seriously...well what was I supposed to do cry over a scrambled egg?

Janniebug

[silver_queen]

lol

[colors]

Sleepy, We all think you are doing a marvelous job with the new baby. We know it is hard but your a natural at this.

(With time, he may even stop moving the furniture around the room at night.)

Remember you have to turn the baby, so his head will form properly and not have a flat spot.

Colors

okay, he's gone now, every one can relax, including me. maybe i'll get some sleep now. weird, he never cried at nite, but i never got any sleep. ehh..doesn't matter. he's gone now. and i never have to have another baby again. even in his absence, i still here crying and cooing and eating noises. i'm just going crazy.

ty all for being there and making fun of me, hehe. i'll tell you all next semester when the new group gets em and i'm on the other side

[emwell]

Janniebug sounds like the perfect response to me. You took it seriously and told the truth. I once got an A on a Humanities final. The teacher gave me an A for my honesty. The question was to write about a goal you have in life. I wrote that my goal was to LIVE instead of just exist. Man, I guess they never picked up the depression that was creeping in.

[emwell]

You all have totally cracked me up. This so reminds me of the virtual pet key chains that use to be so popular. I would jump when my keychain beeped.

I do not recall ever having a parenting course when I was in high school. I so want a baby, but I am getting older every day. I am also very selfish and can't imagine doing what I want when I want. Then again maybe what I will want is to cuddle the baby.