You don’t see this on television or in the movies much, but right after a woman gives birth, there’s not really a dramatic change to her shape. She still looks pregnant; she just looks … less pregnant. In many cases, though, the dramatic change does occur over the following week or two. For my wife, she was actually back to her original weight and wearing her regular clothes by the time she left the hospital. With the first kid, anyway.
NB: Miranda has her hat pulled down over her eyes, making her look a little like Donald from the old Fat Albert cartoon show. My son did this all the time when he was a newborn. He’d somehow pull the hat down every time we put one on, like he preferred it that way. It’s just one of those weird little details from real life which I felt I needed to include.
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A thought just occurred to me: Did Daphne win the baby pool? The in-comic one, I mean.
I don’t really know. I think she likely cooked it so that she ‘won’ no matter what the results were. It’s almost impossible for her to lose, really.
The kid’s on the outside, but now, you’re dealing with the screaming, and the pooping, and the puking, and more screaming, and more pooping, etc…why do people reproduce again?
And take the time to sleep while you can, Puck, because you are not going to have a set schedule for a LONG time. And neither is the rest of your house, for that matter, depending on how loud little Miri will be. 🙂
All the fun that the world can offer is coming.
I guess you’re right. My nephews and nieces are fun now that they are toilet trained and can talk and play.
I still like going home/sending them home though. Being a single guy who lives alone, the hordes are a little much for me after a couple of hours. :/
They’re a little much for everyone after a couple of hours. You just have the ability to say ‘bye’ at the end. Cherish that ability, friend.
Two groups who have the greatest patience with kids are teachers and the kid’s own parents. And you are both, if I’m correct?
Though, I believe you said, either on this site or the old one, that you teach high school? Which means teenagers, and not kids all day. Though you’ve still got to go home to them…
Another great strip. Glad to see Puck’s chutzpah is still there!
Before I got to hold Lilly a few days ago, I got this talk from my dad. “Don’t mind if Belinda hovers,” he said, “the mothering instinct is VERY strong.” I found that quite unnerving. Was wondering if it would come up in the comic? x
The mother instinct is primal and strong and at times vicious. That’s why they tell you not to go near bear cubs, right?
My ex-wife used to routinely tell me she was about ready to throw the girl out of the window and forget about her… but she never did… and that was many years ago.
Then again, after that incident with the donut holes last time I visited…
Well, the incubator does look like a plastic shoebox storage container…
An unflattering shape, to be sure.
HAHA, my wife is pregnant and these last few comix have made her laugh so hard 🙂
Mission accomplished! That means there’s a certain level of verisimilitude, then.
That vote incentive is – disturbing to say the least [shudder]
Heh heh heh…
At least it’s not as bad as when he did the “nude Puck” voting incentive, which ended up being Puck from Alpha Flight nude. At least there were no naughty bits for him shown, though. 🙂
You’re right. I’ve done much worse. This one’s benign by comparison.
That is the least smart man in the universe.
I think we’ve all known that for a long, long time.
When Miranda’s older why not give her a Star Sapphire power ring.
WHY?!? AAAGHHHH!!!! WHY WHY WHY? WHY?!? (No seriously, why?)
Sleep now Puck, it soon becomes its worth in gold. My daughters could not keep hats on. We’d have the cutest little hats to put on them only to turn around and find them being used as pillows!
Oh Colin that less pregnant look is just internal swelling, there was a vicious struggle for escape happening in there not to long ago, so like the end of any battle all that’s left is blood and pain.
“All that’s left is blood and pain.” T.S. Eliot couldn’t put it more eloquently.
After a beautiful moment last strip, Foot-in-Mouth Disease returns to Colinville. 😀
Beautiful moments don’t last very long in this comic, that’s for sure.
PLZ bring the triforce shirt back
Maybe soon. Maybe a different Triforce design.
cool im thinkin bout makin a few shirts with the triforce
If he’d like to be sued by Nintendo, sure.
Well, if he planned on mass-producing them, maybe … but there are lots of smaller craft-type t-shirt makers that sell stuff like that without much legal trouble. I’ve got a beautiful black t-shirt with a gold-paint Triforce emblem from Skyward Sword on it. My wife bought it through Etsy. It’s not authorized, but it’s cool.
When Miranda’s older why not give her emotional scaring like every other parent does?
That I can do. Definitely.
I don’t know who said it first, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were sam Clemens…
“It takes three adults to track one 2-year old. Unfortunately, they come equipped with only two.”
also…
“Your first childhood ends when your first child is born. Your second childhood begins when your first grandchild is born.”
Yeah, good quotations. Reasonably accurate.
Unless the first grandchild is born while still raising subsequent children.
I hope that Miranda if and when she has a family of her own that she’ll keep it small.
What, you’re already thinking THAT far ahead? Heck, give people a chance to settle down (yeah, riiiiight).
figures, though. after all, what’s the first thing almost everybody wants to know about a newborn baby… gender. As if it’s gonna matter for any reason (other than diaper usage) for the first decade.
More like 3-5 years. Gender variant people tend to know that something is wrong by the age of 3-5.
They’re in the hospital. Tractionville is a very short trip from here. Mommy and Daddy might even get to share a room. ^_^
I call that convenience.
I just noticed Colin’s T-Shirt was a reference to the glorious Atari 2600 A-Team game.
Awesome.
Indeed it is. My wife found it most disturbing in an earlier panel where the placement of Colin’s shirt made it look like Puck was birthing Mr. T.
Women hold water before birth, and release it soon afterwards. The medical people call it diareesing.