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    • How’s the dog with the baby?

      Posted at 9:08 pm by corrinacampbell
      Jan 28th

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      How’s the dog with the baby?  I hear this question regularly as visitors arrive and the dog and baby battle for attention.

      Maverick, my dog, joined our wee family 7 years ago. The deal was that I could pick the dog if my husband could pick the name. Yes, he’s a small chihuahua x bichon named after the one and only Top Gun Maverick.

      My husband will tell you, for 7 years Maverick has been my ‘Fur-Baby’.  Yes yes, I may have ‘mothered’ him slightly (let him sleep in the bed, on my lap, come with me wherever I go etc etc) but he’s so cute and small it seemed only right.

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      Even pregnant Maverick was by my side.  I loved this dog more than anything in the world, by my side through everything and still there when I was tired, grumpy and very hormonal.

       

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      For me it was more a question of the baby fitting in around the dog and not the other way round.  I never imagined that this love for my dog would ever faultier, not even for one second.  But then I never appreciated that I would ever love something, or indeed someone more than my dog.

      I had read a bit about how to introduce a baby to a dog, how to ensure that they would both be friends, how to make the transition a smooth and easy process for all.  No bother I thought.  How wrong I would be.

      Arriving home with the Wee One I was greeted with a delighted Maverick, who was so pleased to see us return (with or without a baby, let’s be honest!).  However, something had changed.  I wasn’t the same anymore.  I had had a section so I did not want the dog anywhere near me, and certainly not perched on what was a very sore and tender tummy.  I then started to panic about dog germs and so poor Maverick was banished from the bedroom (into a lovely new dog bed for the record).

       

       

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      But that wasn’t all.  The tiredness and exhaustion kicked in.  I just didn’t have time to look after a new baby and a fur-baby.  It seemed an impossible task and my priorities had changed, literally over night.  Frustration then began to creep in.  Walking a dog and a buggy was quite a task and certainly stopping to sniff at every lamp post was just out of the question with a screaming baby who needed to be kept moving.

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      Yet, having now mastered a dog and a buggy, a routine which includes the dog

       

       

      Posted in #mummymonday | Tagged baby, dog, Mummyblogger
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