5 Funny Things I Didn’t Know About Babies
Since I’ve had Keira I’ve had plenty of moments where I realised that before I was a parent I had some really strange and funny ideas about babies and being a mom.
1) I thought diapers were complicated and would be absolutely disgusting to change.
I was wrong. Diapers are pretty simple… putting them on a writhing newborn or an infant trying to eat their toes is not. I also found they only get really disgusting once you start weaning on to proper food. Except for the Poonami’s. Oh the horror of Poo everywhere.
2) I thought all babies started sleeping through the night in a week or two.
I think my Other Half put it best when he stated “I didn’t know it was going to be like this!”
3) I thought it would be so easy to lose the Mommy tummy.
Breastfeeding takes care of that completely right? Um no and where is my Muumuu?
4) I thought I would have the time to put together a lovely scrapbook for her.
Ahahaha! Perhaps at some point between the screaming, feeding, pooping, spitting up and playing I can make the time to sit down and cut and paste. I’m guessing that project will be complete when I’m around the age of 82.
5) I thought giving babies a pacifier was lazy parenting.
You’ll understand the humour when you come to the realisation that you have become a human pacifier.
What are some things you thought before you became a parent?
lol so true! I thought I would have time for scrapbooking too…ya….not so much! lol
haha these are all true and I thought I could buy a book and the instructions would all be there….oh and apparently when people have parenting advice all common courtesy flies out the window
I personally never saw a problem with giving a child a pacifier. I guess only the people that have really never had kids or spent any time around them would see that as lazy parenting. I see that you have obviously changed your ways but that statement kind of irked me.
These are all things I thought before I was a parent … and therefore pretty clueless about babies and parenting in general. That is why it is funny.
The more kids you have the easier it gets :)My 4th slept 6 hours straight from 2 days old
Sometimes we still struggle with sleeping through the nights at the ages of 14-9-6. I still feel badly about not having baby books for the kid. The first baby has a partial book, the second has a book with nothing in it and the third doesn’t even have a book.
I love reading these! My oldest has just started college and my youngest just turned 3… so it is always fun to remember. My 5 are well past all of those stages. 🙂
Truer words were never spoken, Elizabeth.
Yes. Yes. And more Yes. I remember right before my daughter was born, I was starting to get nervous about how much work having a baby would be. I was picturing that all the baby care duties would be constantly interrupting me from whatever I was doing. Little did I realize that the babies duties ARE what you do. Period.
You are so right my darling wonderful,so true words