7 November 2006

does this make me a bad dad?

This sounds cruel, but is it bad that I can't stop laughing when my baby daughter hiccups?

She's been doing it a lot more lately*, and it just cracks me up. Especially when she's trying to cry while she's hiccupping.

Waaa-hic!-uhwaaaa-hic!-waaa-hic! and so forth.

Of course after I've had a good laugh (around seven or eight minutes) then I'll try to figure out why she's crying, and change her diaper or whatever, all the while still chuckling because she's still hiccupping.

It'd be worse if there were something I could do for her, but as much as I have heard, there's nothing that conclusively cures adult hiccups, let alone anything safe enough to try on babies. So all I can do is let her do it, and try not to laugh too cruelly.


* Please understand I am using the term 'lately' very loosely, as in the last day or so, since we're only talking about a week total here.

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