I always hate it when new moos bring in the loaf to work for it's first public exhibit. I feel like saying, "Ok, oooh and ahh, now get the fuck out of my way.". I doubt they would do it or stay very long if everybody walking by didn't do the stick a finger in it's palm trick and then squeal with surprise and delight as it does the natural reflex, much like a knee cap tapped with a mallet, and squeezes their finger. "Oh look! He squeezed my fingerrr!!!!!!!". I feel like exclaiming, " All right already, the kyd isn't a paraplegic, can we get back to work now?" Then every woman in the vicinity, young and old (except me) will have to pick it up, cradle it, wander around with it in her arms, etc......gag infintum. Then if you are lucky, they stay long enough for a pass the baybee feeding, which of course includes vomit rags and liquid belches. As a finale', we have the newborn diaper change on a desk. The kyd might be small, but it's shit is deadly and has the odiforous stench of milk-shit, baybee powder, and butt wipes, which is a sweet and purely sickening combination and lingers for hours.
Then we have the passers-by, vendors, customers, employees from other departments, delivery men, and salemen, etc,,, who all feel compelled to make predictable remarks; "Oh, he DEFINATELY has your eyes!" This of course sparks an immediate and predictable reflex from moomie that OH NO, "He looks JUST like his father, when HE was a baybee", followed by a roomful of people who know the moomie and the baybee duddy who will agree in unison that, "YES, he does look just like his duddy". It's VERY important that the physical paternal traits are noticed and/or acknowledged by all, lest anyone think it isn't the husband's bio kid, but instead maybe the bosse's or the guy in the next cubicle. It's just as much society's fault this goes on as the moomies', because if people ignored new baybees, then moomie would fold up her pack n play and go home, where she CLEARLY belongs.
I NEVER pick up, hold, play with, ohh and ahh, say any predictable things like how it looks like it's ugly father, say it's cute, take pictures, ask questions, etc...........during a baybee's first showing, or any subsequent one for that matter. I remain completely detached and continue working as if I am completely engrossed in my work, regardless of offers to hold it, pet it, stick my finger in it's hand, etc.....NO THANKS, I am not interested.