Jessie Thompson - Calm Your Baby Tits: A Millennial Moms Manifesto

Copyright 2019 by Jessie Thompson

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Print ISBN: 978-1-54398-005-9

eBook ISBN: 978-1-54398-006-6

WELCOME FRIENDS

A s you pick this book up to figure out if you want to spend your time reading it, let me help persuade you.

I wrote this book during my childrens nap times, over the course of a year. There used to be more chapters, many written while I was very sleep deprived, and those chapters didnt make much sense. Those chapters got cut. It was also while writing one day, that I discovered that I am a millennial. While the national news was bashing the millennial generation one day, I was nodding along; then I decided to check the dates on that generation. I stopped nodding real fast when I figured out that I fell into the over-privileged, lazy group they were referencing.

You will also learn very quickly while reading that:

1. I am a mom of two children. They drive me insane, but I love them very much.
2. This book is written in small, easy to read, short story format. I have found that this format makes it easier for moms to read, because we have very small windows of free time. Also, like I said before, I wrote these chapters during separate nap times. Each day was different. Each day, I felt different emotions, and different levels of sleep deprivation. On some days, I was straight up pissed off at someone, and I like to think that shows.

We millennial moms, by all appearances have it easy. We have delivery services, the World Wide Web full of advice, and oodles of technology to serve us on our stressful journey of momhood. When all these facts are laid out, other people seem to forget that while the mom game is constantly changing, there is one element that remains the same in parenting: you are still working with children.

The child hasnt evolved over time like the mom. Each baby is born with the only ability that they can suck the life out of their mom. This is figuratively and literally. Each child grows, and goes through varying stages of growth and hormone development, all designed to wear a mom down to the core of their sanity bubble.

No sane mom has time in her life to read all the help books and articles that exist. No real mom wants to either.

This compilation isnt meant to judge or really help a mom. Calm Your Baby Tits has been birthed to remind all moms that youre not alone. This book wants to make you laugh, and cry from laughing. As the author, this book is being written with love, and made to give you a proverbial hug, pat on the back, and a little reminder that we will all be alright.

I would like to say sit down and relax, but we all know thats not going to happen. So, stand at your kitchen counter with your lukewarm coffee, children running around with toys at your ankles, and pop open a couple chapters of verbal, soothing tea. Oh yeah; and calm your baby tits.

THE BROWN SPOT

E very now and then, my children leave little surprises for me to find around our house. Sometimes, their surprise comes in the form of a Gogurt yogurt that has been hidden behind a chair for a couple weeks. Other times, it can be an apple with bite marks covering it, that somehow rolled into a closet, and slowly began to decay. Those surprises are gross. The only saving grace in me finding these surprises, is that it means company didnt find them. That would be embarrassing. Then again, a lot of parenting embarrasses the crap out of people, so it would be fitting.

The worst surprise to find in your home is the brown spot. I like to think that moms know what Im talking about. Sometimes the spot is small, and sometimes its large. Sometimes you think it could be chocolate, or pudding, only to reflect on when the last time was that pudding or chocolate was in the house. Usually, there has been no chocolate or pudding.

Sometimes you wonder if you should touch or smell the spot to make sure you know what it is. Touching the spot is never a good idea, but sometimes, thats the only way to know the brown spots identity for certain. Any surprises left by your children are just that: a surprise. Like that box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.

This has happened to me many times. I have come across many brown spots in my home. I like to think of myself as a brown spot veteran. I have accidentally stepped in the brown spot, and I have found it wiped on my clothes. Im not going to lie, sometimes it took me all day to figure out that the brown spot odor was coming from my own clothes.

My husband hasnt been in the same field of duty as long as I have though. He didnt have the knowledge or experience to encounter the brown spot. He didnt know the procedure or protocol. In some respects, he was just an innocent bystander in the battlefield of parenting. One night, the brown spot got him.

I was in the shower that fateful night. I assumed that my husband was capable of watching our two small children for twenty minutes. After all, I do it all day, every day. He could at least give me a shower to take in peace and quiet.

My son came toddling into the bathroom when I was in the middle of rinsing the shampoo from my hair. He slid open the door, and proceeded to try to climb in. At first, I tried to block his entrance. After all, this was my shower; literally it was the only time that I had to myself all day. However, when his little foot hit the floor of the shower, I noticed a brown smear. Like I said, I am a veteran of the brown spot. I immediately recognized it as poop, and washed his little baby foot. He was naked from his point of entry, so I was curious as to where the rest of the brown spot was. When I checked his little ass crack, it was squeaky clean. Obviously my husband wouldnt miss some poop lurking around. I was sure he was diligently cleaning up the brown spot footprints while I was finishing my shower. Certainly he wouldnt want his fresh, clean wife to come across such an atrocity fresh from the shower.

When I got out of the shower, my son in tow, I walked around, looking for the brown spot. I saw a few baby footprints made from brown material, and knew instantly that my husband hadnt cleaned up any brown mess. Instead, I found him in my daughters room, playing Barbie dolls with her. It was a precious scene, and on normal circumstances, would have made my heart melt. However, the whole room smelled like shit. Like fresh, mushy shit. The room smelled like the type of shit that is warm and squishy; that has particles of food and crayon particles in it; the shit creeps into your pores and invades you in the worst possible way. They had to have smelled it too. The stench was overwhelming and warm; it burnt my nose hairs immediately.

Um, did someone poop in here?

My daughter smiled. My husband sat up. Well, yeah, Jax pooped on the carpet over there, but we cleaned it up, and everything is okay.

I took in a deep breath. My nose is burnt out from all the poop sniffing that has happened in my mom life over the years. Even with my burnt out sniffer, I could still smell shit.

I still smell it. The smell is still strong. You missed some poop. Where did you say he did it?

My daughter led me over to a small patch of carpet that was still wet. There was no sign of poop particle at all. That was strange. As I put my face down by the carpet, I couldnt smell anything. However, when I stood up, I knew that there was still a brown spot somewhere.