Things you learn about pregnancy and parenthood

The umbilical cord does not start from the inside of your belly button to the baby’s belly button.
Well of course I knew this wasn’t true but there was still a small part of me that thought of the cord as a kind of tin can and string telephone system. So if Mr. C talked to my belly button then the message would get transmitted down the line to Baby C.

Pull the finger is not a documented method of winding a baby.
Worth a try though. It is of course a well known method of winding any male over the age of ten. Having said that when the French-in-laws were visiting Mr. C’s dad did pull the finger on Baby C and made her poo. Mind you she pooed every evening when the came over.

Everyone has an opinion as to what the baby will be when it grows up
Baby C has big feet and long legs so lots of people have already said she will be a scuba diver. My mother has her down as a dancer already, those legs again.
As for me I always say she will be whatever she wants to be, but in truth I think she is already displaying the sense of timing of a comic genius as demonstrated by careful poo deployment. For a start there was the pull the finger / poo episode (see above), then as Mr. C and I were discussing people we didn’t like she passed comment in the only way she knew how.
She also pood during the opening credits of the Sex and the City dvd - every one´s a critic!
Her current turn is to poo just after I have changed her nappy, this combined with an innocent “who me” face leads me to believe it is deliberate timing. So, comic genius or ironic commentator on the modern world, you chose.

Sniffing the nappy does no-one any good
This isn’t me, I knew that poo, nappy and nose were not meant to go together, however Mr. C does have a habit of sniffing new and interesting things. Good at dinner time bad at nappy time.

So you see, every day is a school day with a baby on board.