He hadn't been feeling good. A little cough, a little listlessness, he didn't feel like nursing much. His toys didn't interest him, playing peekaboo just wasn't funny today, and he felt pretty warm.
So when he heard his mom say it was time to take his temperature, he wasn't really sure what that meant. Then, she lay him over her lap, undressed him, and...
His head snapped up and his eyes went wide as one of the more humiliating horrors of babydom was perpetrated upon him and he was suddenly initiated into what "taking a temperature" meant, and one aspect of his innocence was forever tainted. |