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Reminds me of the time my daughter discovered she could remove her own nappy. I was mid changing her while she was lying on a changing mat on our spare bed. I’d undone the tabs at the side of the nappy she was wearing and was just reaching for the pack of wipes to start the cleanup, when in one smooth movement, she lifts her hips up off the mat while pulling the nappy out from under herself, which she then whirls around her head like a lasso, with a massive smile and a look of absolute triumph on her face.

All I had time to do was an alarmed bellow of “NO!” that brought my wife running from the other room. To this day I can’t figure out how the jobbie stayed in the nappy, and how I somehow managed to get it off her without carnage ensuing. It’s all a blur.
 
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alchal said:
I remember changing ours at a routine check up not long after and the nurse just shook her head at me with how careful/slow I was, takes some getting used to, cherish it ,because before too long they develop superhuman powers, like strength and the super body floppy ability ...
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I’m loving it. Went with the midwife to do his assessment and already learned loads watching her dress and undress him.

Never thought I’d be capable of loving something as much as my boy. I’ve felt so many powerful emotions in the last 36 hours. I feel so alive and happy.
 
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Got to love those moments of poo madness where it's literally everywhere, hands feet, bum, carpet, clothes and yet you still try to contain it.. it's how I imagine snipping wires on a bomb feels like.
 
Mason- said:
I feel so alive
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Give it a few nights and that'll change :cry:

Seriously though, massive congratulations to you and your wife! Everyone tells you the love you'll feel is immeasurable but you still don't realise it until you feel it. I never wanted kids and now when someone tells me they don't want kids the voice in my head says "wtf are you even doing with your life then?"

Enjoy the ride :)
 
Our 20 month old has decided she doesn’t fancy her nap at nursery right now.

It’s been a fun two days of her being a real joy getting to bed time in the evening - but then she’s conking out and sleeping solidly for 12+ hours (the other night she did 13h30…)

Hoping it’s a bit of a phase and she’s testing her limits because she 100% needs to still have the nap. I’m also assuming she’ll nap fine with us at home this weekend too…
 
t2na said:
Our 20 month old has decided she doesn’t fancy her nap at nursery right now.

It’s been a fun two days of her being a real joy getting to bed time in the evening - but then she’s conking out and sleeping solidly for 12+ hours (the other night she did 13h30…)

Hoping it’s a bit of a phase and she’s testing her limits because she 100% needs to still have the nap. I’m also assuming she’ll nap fine with us at home this weekend too…
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She's only going to get older so she's binned the nap off, no regressions allowed
 
FluffySheep said:
No. The word you are looking for is hoping

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If it's anything like when she dropped from 2 to 1, she ended up keeping the second one with us at home for a bit longer so possibly thinking it might be similar for this...? Not entirely sure though, I guess we'll see this weekend.
dlockers said:
She's only going to get older so she's binned the nap off, no regressions allowed
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If she was 2 I wouldn't be too fussed tbh but I picked her up yesterday and within 30 seconds she's fast asleep in the car :o
 
Ours has always been the same. She rarely if ever naps at nursery and if she does, it'll only be about 30 minutes or so. It's not too bad on her half days as she'll nap at home but on the days where she is there 8am-5pm and doesn't nap she is just a menace in the evening and way over the top.
 
Mason- said:
I’m loving it. Went with the midwife to do his assessment and already learned loads watching her dress and undress him.

Never thought I’d be capable of loving something as much as my boy. I’ve felt so many powerful emotions in the last 36 hours. I feel so alive and happy.
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Nice feeling. Will last until they are walking. Then you will curse the day you get the woman pregnant. Oh, then you'll be happy again once they learn the rules.
 
Our two are on the cusp of walking and they are absolute menaces. To be fair, they have managed to be menaces for months at this point but currently they are just scurrying everywhere at speed, often in different directions and then suddenly decide that they can walk when they can't. Had at least 3 head bonks in the past 2 days.
 
The Funktopus said:
Reminds me of the time my daughter discovered she could remove her own nappy. I was mid changing her while she was lying on a changing mat on our spare bed. I’d undone the tabs at the side of the nappy she was wearing and was just reaching for the pack of wipes to start the cleanup, when in one smooth movement, she lifts her hips up off the mat while pulling the nappy out from under herself, which she then whirls around her head like a lasso, with a massive smile and a look of absolute triumph on her face.

All I had time to do was an alarmed bellow of “NO!” that brought my wife running from the other room. To this day I can’t figure out how the jobbie stayed in the nappy, and how I somehow managed to get it off her without carnage ensuing. It’s all a blur.
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We've all been there.
 
t2na said:
Our 20 month old has decided she doesn’t fancy her nap at nursery right now.

I’m also assuming she’ll nap fine with us at home this weekend too…
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So 2 hour naps both Saturday and Sunday - plus her normal 7ish to 7ish sleep. Definitely shows she isn't actually keen to drop the nap yet.

I honestly think she actually just has major FOMO and at nursery it's so much going on and so exciting that she's worried she's going to be missing out on all the fun.
 
Bit of a palaver last 24 hours. Our son was born with forceps. They said he’s very likely to be jaundiced because of this and that it’ll peak at around day 5. Well yesterday was day 5 we took him to the day 5 midwife appointment. She did the skin test for jaundice and she said based on this reading I advise you to go to A&E. As well he had dropped 15% body weight since birth, apparently 7-10% is ‘normal’.

So we went to A&E and they took bloods. His levels were just below the boundary for phototherapy treatment, however his sodium levels were high, they would have told us to go home if not for the sodium levels. So he’s been admitted, and because of that they might as well do phototherapy as well. Been tough, more expressing and bottle feeding to measure exactly how much he’s taking. He seems to have come on loads though, eating a lot, lots of nappies. And his skin is looking better. They took bloods at 1:30am. Hopefully they’re back by 4, and hopefully they’re good enough that we can go home. If not it’s another 8 hours of phototherapy and bottle feeding until he improves enough to let us home.

Just want my boy and wife to be home and safe. Absolutely shattered but got to crack on. Currently home to pick up some supplies. We only left the house with enough to go to the midwife and back home… that was 9:30am… it’s now 17 hours later….
 
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/rant ahead

My youngest (under 2..) has been sick at 3am.
My wife who think that her job is vastly more important than mine wants me to work from home tomorrow to look after him. I can't work with a 1 year old attached to me. I have a full day of teams meetings and 2 physical on site visits to do. The on site ones will be a real pitta to reorganise as there are multiple people traveling to do them.
All of which I'll have to cancel and rearrange now. And my wife... will go to her job as a nursery teacher...

Why are wife's so ridiculous at times? Unable to listen to reason?

Rant over...
(Happy to look after the child, will be a nice chill day with snuggles.. but going to cause headaches at work)
 
Diagro said:
/rant ahead

My youngest (under 2..) has been sick at 3am.
My wife who think that her job is vastly more important than mine wants me to work from home tomorrow to look after him. I can't work with a 1 year old attached to me. I have a full day of teams meetings and 2 physical on site visits to do. The on site ones will be a real pitta to reorganise as there are multiple people traveling to do them.
All of which I'll have to cancel and rearrange now. And my wife... will go to her job as a nursery teacher...

Why are wife's so ridiculous at times? Unable to listen to reason?

Rant over...
(Happy to look after the child, will be a nice chill day with snuggles.. but going to cause headaches at work)
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Work can wait though, right? It'll still be there tomorrow and it'll be there next week.

Totally understand it causing headaches at the last minute but it's not going anywhere. Whenever our daughter is sick my wife and I tend to just check our work calendars to see who can manage it better and even then working from home with a sick kid is pretty difficult at this age (also under 2) - so it's either last minute day off / using sick leave and just keeping an eye on emails.

Is it more difficult for your wife to get last minute days off as a nursery teacher? They have to have a number of staff per kid ratio don't they?

It used to really get to me if our kid was sick and we were meant to be working the next day but now I just treat it as it's no different to if I was suddenly sick in the early morning and needed the day to recover, work can genuinely wait a day or two.
 
Diagro said:
/rant ahead

My youngest (under 2..) has been sick at 3am.
My wife who think that her job is vastly more important than mine wants me to work from home tomorrow to look after him. I can't work with a 1 year old attached to me. I have a full day of teams meetings and 2 physical on site visits to do. The on site ones will be a real pitta to reorganise as there are multiple people traveling to do them.
All of which I'll have to cancel and rearrange now. And my wife... will go to her job as a nursery teacher...

Why are wife's so ridiculous at times? Unable to listen to reason?

Rant over...
(Happy to look after the child, will be a nice chill day with snuggles.. but going to cause headaches at work)
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In all fairness your wife adds way more value looking after my kid than whatever job you do. Thank you for service :D
 
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