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4 days in you just gotta roll with it as the others have said. Things start to settle into a routine soon (sometimes that routine is waking up every couple hours, but fingers crossed).
We thought we'd cracked our nighttime invasions with a little night light that projects starts and unicorns onto the ceiling. 4 nights of no disturbances! Then back came the little patter of get at 1am, and we are back in a rough patch. She has a fever now so is in with mum while I crash in her bed. Any tips for 3 year old sleep?
She says she's scared of the dark, but I think she's just scared of being alone now than anything.
We thought we'd cracked our nighttime invasions with a little night light that projects starts and unicorns onto the ceiling. 4 nights of no disturbances! Then back came the little patter of get at 1am, and we are back in a rough patch. She has a fever now so is in with mum while I crash in her bed. Any tips for 3 year old sleep?
She says she's scared of the dark, but I think she's just scared of being alone now than anything.
WRT night time no nappy time, we just waited until Riley was going most nights dry (at this point she was mostly fine wearing pants during the day with rare accidents), and then went for it and she was grand. Think she's wet the bed a handful of times in 6 months.
Lmao, not quite, but I'd just be grateful he went back to bed!
I've had some amusing events with my daughter making noises in the night, so I go in and she's lying on her back but like this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ making some deal with me about going to the park, yawning and going back to sleep
Congrats! That feeling doesn't really change, and all I can say is that it continues to throw me amazing experiences at you (as well as new ways to deprive you off sleep). Welcome to the club!Thanks so much, 15 mins from the time we got to the hospital lol, missus was running 13k each day right up until the birth so think that had something to do with it, i well up just thinking of her! Never knew I’d turn into such a melt!
All the best to yours
Ha, bloody arlo and Co were the bain of my life for a while as well
Sounds like my wife
Bloody hell, I miss when Christmas was all about me. Spent 2 hours assembling a 1.2m tall doll house, at which point Riley, who NEVER wets the bed, does that and has a complete meltdown. Unconsolable screaming for an hour. She's now wide awake in our bed with Mrs Devrij watching YouTube.
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Thanks RoboCod and @Devrij, but don't get me wrong we're still full of excitement and happiness and i have a positive mind about it, it's likely nothing will be wrong and even if there is, apparently there's an easy fix, just it'll be better if there's nothing to fix. I felt my baby kick for the first time today, my wife has been feeling it for weeks but today was the first time it was strong enough for me to feel it! That was brilliant to experience!
Oh and something that just happened minutes ago. We have our sister in law come over for Christmas and she has a 5 month-old. Sister-in-law asks us to look after the baby for 5 minutes. LONGEST 5 MINUTES EVER!! Immediately starts to cry while she was good as gold all day, we try to claim her down and then realized she needed a change, the wife doesn't know how to change a baby yet! I go, both of us then try to change the baby while she's bringing down the house with her wailing, I wish I had ear defenders, wife trying to give me instruction and I can barely hear her over the wailing, it's as loud as a tube train in a tunnel, we get the diaper off, clean her, then wife put the diaper on again, then realises she put the old one on by mistake and not a new one. She almost collapse in embarrassment as the mother breezes in and fixes the situation in 30s flat.
Now the wife is in the kitchen feeling like a failure and i'm laughing my arse off and the whole thing. I've claimed her down now and assured her she's not a failure and she's not going to be a terrible mother and we'll do much better when our little one is born. I'm not sure she's wholly convinced
My usual "protip" applies here: open a nappy bag before taking off the dirty nappy. In fact, open the fresh nappy up first as well so you can slide it under easier, and have the wipes open. Preparation helps. Because the first time you encounter a spill, well that's when you want to be ready.
Being serious, nappy changing you'll have down pat in a single day, 2 tops, after feeling like a complete tool the first time. After 2 weeks you'll be an old hand at the vast majority of that early days stuff.
I'm currently at a point where the problems are all about reasoning with an unreasonable being because I need her compliance or it ain't happening. No stuffing little feet into PJs anymore. If she doesn't want those PJs on, they ain't going on unless I'm prepared to wrestle a demon.
That sucks dude, hope all is well and he makes a speedy recovery
It's even worse when you take them and know what's coming. I've had to restrain my daughter while she screams bloody murder. Feels awful but you know you're doing it to help them.
Well done! You never know how important these places are until you have to use them and see the incredible work they do.
Glad to hear she's recovering well. I hope you two get back on your feet soon.
You're doing the right thing. My wife always caved and gave our girl whatever she wanted eventually. Guess who she runs to every time I say no.
I'd just tell them unless your workplace is some weird place where they hate people. I mean, prior to 12 weeks is always high risk for miscarriage, but telling your work isn't like announcing it on Facebook so I think it'd be fine.