Sunday's Child

I've grown up with the poem below.  Every time we would hear of a birth, my mom would quote this poem.  I was a Wednesday child-full of woe.  Lucky me for my mom to have a planned birth on a Wednesday and for it to be April Fool's Day as well!

Nick was born on a Saturday, and I couldn't agree more that he fits the Saturday child profile-works hard for its living.

Tillman was set up for a pretty good out come.  He was due on a Tuesday-full of grace and born on a Sunday-blithe and bonny and good and gay! 

Here's our blithe and bonny and good and gay child! 

He fits this definition 20 hours out of the day.  He turns into a Wednesday child between 2-6 AM, but we love him just the same.  We think his days and nights are mixed up for sure.  He has little patients for breastfeeding during those hours, and really just wants to be held and suck your finger.  Nick, my mom, and my finger have been in his mouth more than he has breastfed since being home from the hospital!  We're not using a paci yet, as we are told it can affect his interest in a breastfeeding latch.

Monday's Child (poem name)

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for its living,
And a child that's born on the Sabbath day
Is blithe and bonny and good and gay.

"‘Monday's Child’ is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future based on the day they were born. As with all nursery rhymes, there are many versions. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19526."  Published in 1838.