What to Expect When You are Expecting to Meet Your New Grandbaby:
A Grandma’s Guide to Surviving the Extended Babymoon
By Ashley Pryor Geiger
@ashcat7077
Thinking you will meet your grandbaby soon after they are born? Not so fast grandma! Even as you make the final payment on your daughter’s Composting Destination Wedding in Seattle, millennials have devised another rite of passage: the “Extended Babymoon” — an indefinite time of parent/baby bonding in the absence of other family or friends. If you are anything like us, you were heartbroken to learn that you won’t be visiting your daughter or new grandbaby at the hospital. But trust us, it can get worse. Everything you do or say next is of critical importance if you hope to meet your grandchild before college graduation. We have compiled these helpful tips to help speed along the process.
Before the Birth: Sign up as a volunteer Candy Striper at your local hospital.
This is the most effective way to by-pass your daughter’s “no visitors” at the hospital rule. Just be sure your striper-cart contains an abundance of flowers, champagne, cigars, and chocolates to fête the new parents. Offer these immediately upon entrance to the deluxe birthing suite. It will help too to have that bottle of Macallan 25 in hand. You know, the one you bribed the…
