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Baby Project Reflection Essay During my four days with the baby I had new developments for how I felt towards children. My initial thoughts on this baby project was that it would be easy and fun because of my experience with my little brother and sister, but boy was I wrong. The project was a lot of work. You don’t get a fun interactive baby, you only get the bad parts of the baby. You get the crying, diaper using, and hungry baby. It’s a lot of work. I went out with the child two times. My first time going out with the child was at a nail salon. It was not too bad. The baby did not cry except for the very end. The last minute or so, but the nail people were sure asking a lot of questions. At first they thought it was real and wanted to know …show more content…

You have to do all the work. Taking care of this child alone shows how much you need that other person. Someone who is going to love the child equally and help out so you can have a break. Plus taking care of a child alone while in sports and in school, that's even more difficult. You have to step out of class and you miss parts of the lecture or if you stay in class everyone stares at you and silently judges you for not being able to get the baby to be quiet. Being on the cheer team with a baby is also hard. I would be in the middle of working on the routine and the baby would start crying so I had to stop and go take care of her while everyone else kept working. Being in this alone, in school, and in a sport was very difficult and frustrating. I just wanted so badly for someone to be able to help me and take care of the baby while I had something else to do. I also had a couple big tests to study for and I would get so frustrated and cry because the baby was crying and sometimes I could not figure out what it wanted and all I wanted to do was study. I missed out on attending activities and going out because I was too embarrassed. My cousin had invited me to the mall, but I did not want to care the baby everywhere I went; the baby carrier was too heavy to be carrying such a long time. I also had to opt out of a bike ride to the beach because I had nowhere to put the baby that would guarantee a safe ride there. Having to cancel plans or

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