"I'm not an ambi-turner" (Zoolander) ....nor ambidextrous (me)....but I wish I was

As it happens, ambi-turning (which I shall define as the ability to turn in either direction) is something I am capable of...as I'd imagine are most normal individuals. ( Derek Zoolander excluded). However being ambidextrous, which I am not, is something that would be so profoundly useful and life-changing as a parenting skill that I wish it had been covered somewhere on the national curriculum or at the very least on my NCT course. 

I am rapidly discovering the limitations to my breakfast menu, my wardrobe choices and my ability to fulfil basic physiological needs ( e.g. Go to the bathroom) where only one hand can be utilised in turn, the other being necessarily required to hold or soothe my 5 week old daughter and prevent her turning beetroot with rage crying. Or more likely to hold her upright and prevent yet another incident of projectile vomiting..which necessitates a further change of clothes for her and often me, (although milky-vomit stains are now considered a design feature of my wardrobe and a badge of  maternal honour). 

Seriously, I'm thinking there are several niches in the marketplace for the yoghurt pot that you can open one-handed, or the trousers you can don solely with your left hand without looking like you have ants-in-your-pants AND without dropping the precious creature who has finally fallen asleep cradled in your right arm. 

As a pure rightie,rather than a leftie (in a solely dexterous rather than political sense) I have had to forgo eating soup or yogurts or even drinking tea, following several accidents where the aforementioned items have ended  up on my daughter's head! Gloppy yoghurt probably forgivable, scalding coffee less so.

Now clearly there are other solutions to my problem, however I wish someone had simply encouraged me to practice ambi dexterity during my pregnancy. Then at this critical point in my existence, where quite honestly being able to make, and drink my morning caffeine fix feels like a life or death situation I would be a black-belt ninja left to right switcher...rather than a fumbling amateur who readily concedes defeat.

The lesson of this banal musing is therefore that one should practice using both hands for many everyday tasks, thus building crucial muscle memory pre-parenthood...or for the less budget conscious...invest in an au pair or third party to do stuff for you and provide you with multiple additional limbs!! Boom!!