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he’s no idea what’s going on. Just happy he doesn’t need the patch anymore. Which I understand since he was literally blind when he had it on. Does explain why he is always bumping into things though!
It's like those dogs with three legs that bound along completely happily because nobody told them to be sad about it. It just is. Kids are weirdly pragmatic like that as well
No idea if it's worth looking into, but a partner of ours has a fairly successful treatment for the lazy eye part (no help with the actual poor vision though) https://www.seevividly.com/
You're more prepared than I was so I can confidently say you'll be grand. You're right to be both excited and nervous, it's one hell of a ride!
My first time bathing my daughter was probably the trickiest thing, and we were lucky to have a midwife show us how to hold her with one hand (keeping her noodle neck supported) in the sink while using the other to wash her. Little things like that make the first few days weeks eventful!
Wait you have 3 kids plus twins? That sounds... exhausting!
A woman I used to commute with told me a story about some friends of hers: their son, 5 at this point, had never spoken a word. All sorts of therapies etc ensued to no avail. One day at a bday party he walks over to an adult with a toy and says "excuse me, I think the mechanism is broken". Turns out he'd been practicing on his own and it just needed a point where he actually needed to communicate to do so. So basically I think a lot of "slow developers" are just kids who haven't found the motivation to do a thing for whatever reason
Good luck to those of you joining the ranks of Dadhood. My wife was 42 when we had our girl (I turned 30 the next day) and neither of us would have changed anything.
She can be a real handful at times, but she is so damn cute I can't really get mad at her for long. I left the two of them in bed watching videos and got a really nice hug, kiss on the cheek and "I love you too daddy" that just set my day on the right track.
I genuinely don't know what I was planning with my life before I had her, but my priorities are all crystal clear now and it makes a lot of **** easier to deal with when you know exactly why you're doing it.
She can be a real handful at times, but she is so damn cute I can't really get mad at her for long. I left the two of them in bed watching videos and got a really nice hug, kiss on the cheek and "I love you too daddy" that just set my day on the right track.
I genuinely don't know what I was planning with my life before I had her, but my priorities are all crystal clear now and it makes a lot of **** easier to deal with when you know exactly why you're doing it.
Good win, may it be the first of many!
I think if I had tried that with the Mrs she would have told me where to go. She WAS desperate to get that baby out though...We tried everything and none of it worked. 13 days overdue, induction booked for next day. Had fun times in the bed that night and low and behold he came... Ooer Mrs!
In other news, my daughter now has new catchphrases that she keeps rolling out at any opportunity. "sure am kiddo" and "let's rock and rooooll". She is definitely going to be cooler than me.
Yeah, it's awful for a number of reasons, not least being that you have to take immediate action, and all the cleanup involved is guaranteed to leave everyone fully awake, but exhausted.
The silver lining is that she now tells us she's going to puke and with a bin close to hand we've avoided any more mess in the subsequent chunderfest.
Congrats @Steedie, we had the same exact thing. Heart rate plummeting, cue midwives rolling my wife around like a rolling pin every now and then. Eventually the most chilled out surgeon rolled up and was like "ehhh, well the fybroid makes it a bit tricky, but I think we do a c section" like he was deciding whether to have extra cheese on his pizza. All nerve wracking as hell, while they chat about their weekend plans and cut holes in my wife lol.
Good luck on the parenting, I hate to tell you it's just as nerve wracking as the birth, as it's like having your heart outside your body.
Good luck on the parenting, I hate to tell you it's just as nerve wracking as the birth, as it's like having your heart outside your body.
I'm unsure what was starred out there!
I now absolutely have to get nerf guns. My daughter and I had a blast with squirt guns over summer so that's the obvious next step. Xmas sorted.
Yeah it took me a while to suss it. I was like "man, if he was a teenager or something sure, but surely you can trust him not to screw a nerf gun at that age".
Awesome dude. Welcome to the world where phrases like "a solid 5hrs sleep" are said without a hint of irony! 3.5yrs into the journey myself, and it just gets better every day. Tonight after reading my girl a story in bed I gave her a kiss goodnight and she rolled over, gave me the biggest hug and whispered "goodnight daddy, I love you" and I ******* melted. On the flip side it's also filled with weird moments where she sits there rubbing herself going "my peepee tickles!" and I have to explain that's a thing most people do in private.
Those places are just plague houses. Our daughter went through a phase of getting sick back to back and it was getting ridiculous how much time off work we were taking. Thankfully she seems pretty robust now and it's a rare thing.
The real plus side is that she has enough experience to tell us when she's gonna puke and to chunder in the bucket!
That sucks dude. It really is very common (we had 2 before we had Riley), and while that doesn't change how it feels it's important to remember that it's not anyone's fault (especially for her). All I can say is that it was worth trying again!
The cool part is that every day feels like Friday because you're looking forwards to getting home to see your kid.