There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

I'm not sure if it's a parable, nursery rhyme, kids song or just something I've repressed from being in school in the 70's... but it went something like this. "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed that fly. Perhaps she'll die".

I'm now paranoid of this happening to little Smidget.

On the weekends, I get in the rotation of getting up in the middle of the night to tend to Smidget's needs... he generally gets up at 2:30am... roughly 90 minutes of feeding and small talk and then back to bed... and then he's up again around 5:30-6:00a. My wife, heroine that she is, does these middle-of-the-night duties during the week so that I'm somewhat rested for work. However, on the weekend, I'm in there... and we take turns. If I do the 2:30a the first night, I'll do the 5:30a the next night/morning.

Yeah yeah, I'm getting back to the fly thing.

So today, I was up at 5:40a with Smidget. He ate, we chatted, we reviewed the episode of the West Wing that we typically watch while eating. He dozes off and I try to do a few things... those of you that know me know that 6:30am Steve is a challenge in terms of functioning. This morning, while he was dozing in the bouncy chair (see earlier post), a fly kept landing on his head, face, nose etc.. and I would try to shoo it away without disturbing him. It occurred to me... what if this fly flew into his open mouth while I was downstairs putting in laundry or if I was in the bathroom? What if this was while he was sleeping and a fly just flew into the mouth??

The person that wrote that song seemed oddly detached and introspective. Sorta like 'gee, a fly, death could be pending'. I can't be so detached.

On a hike in Gatineau Park today I casually mentioned this to a friend. They didn't seem overly concerned... in fact, I think the quote was 'ah well, good protein'.

I'd bet the average fly is about the size of his little windpipe right now.

I wonder if I can set the video baby monitor (which also makes a sound if there's movement) to detect a fly?