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| Thread ID: 84950 | 2007-11-24 05:56:00 | New girl on the way... | rob_on_guitar (4196) | PC World Chat |
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| 614681 | 2007-11-24 08:15:00 | Mate, You wont feel silly when the child is smiling at ya. My boy,now a month old is really coming into his own, You can see the person. Its freakin amazing. As for crying, Its usually wind and food. If you can get the wind out befoe he needs another feed they should sleep, Mrs Metla has got it down to a fine art with this one, he wakes between 1 and 2am, has a feed, gets winded,fed again,winded, and back to sleep around 3. I usually sleep right through it:lol:, but that is a matter currently getting discussed:annoyed: |
Metla (12) | ||
| 614682 | 2007-11-24 09:13:00 | Yea, Im already been told the duties must be shared! Im the only one working at the moment too and my hours are pretty hectic, sometimes 16 hours to 19 hours a day. 10 hours if its a quiet one, I guess ill have to kip when possible.:help: lol | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 614683 | 2007-11-24 10:29:00 | Mate - if you manage the feeding carefully you'll both get reasonable 5 - 6 hours sleep at nights. All three of my daughters were sleeping up to 7 hours per night, times of our choosing, after as little as 3 weeks. They were also toilet trained not much more than 1 years old. My best piece of advice... don't even consider reusable cloth nappies. Disposables make the stress disappear by a huge degree. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 614684 | 2007-11-24 10:54:00 | Don't feel stupid talking to your child while still in the womb. Apparently, they can hear you and after birth will easily recognise yours and your partners voices. Part of the bonding thing Best piece of advise I can offer you as a father... do what you can to help your partner. She may not expect you to get up every nite for the early morning feeds, but do give her a break when you can. Best piece of advice I can offer you as the father of a girl... some people treat their girls with kid gloves, buying dolls and namby pamby crap.. me; I treat my daughter as I would have treated a son (as she got older; play fights on the bed, soft pillow fights, spin her around, a bit of softish rough and tumble etc etc). The only reason she got into dolls (and thankfully its only an occassional thing) is because others bought them for her. Best feeling in the world, sitting back in the chair in the birthing room with your kid sucking your finger (another motive for giving up smoking, do you really want her sucking on tobacco fingers?); while mum recovered |
Myth (110) | ||
| 614685 | 2007-11-24 15:55:00 | What the heck are they? :confused: My three daughters were all bottle fed as babies and I never came across or heard of a bottle liner, disposable or otherwise. www.diapers.com They make it a lot easier to keep bottles clean...the inside is always sterile even if you have just had to rinse out the bottle. This isn't for the sake of the bottle, but for the baby getting a clean formula every time. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 614686 | 2007-11-24 18:27:00 | When my son was born I had not much of anything. No pram, no cot. Minimal clothes. New clothes are pointless - just buy stuff off Trademe for the time being, they change size every 5 minutes for the first year. I got a pram when he was 6 months old. Got the cot when he was 10 months old. Never had a chnage table. The floor worked well. Never had a baby bath - used the bath. Never bothered with half the stuff they reckon is "essential". And never bought baby food either - its full of crap and an extra expenses. Get a blender and whizz up a bit of whatever you are having for dinner - its real then. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 614687 | 2007-11-24 18:43:00 | When my son was born I had not much of anything. No pram, no cot. Minimal clothes. New clothes are pointless - just buy stuff off Trademe for the time being, they change size every 5 minutes for the first year. I got a pram when he was 6 months old. Got the cot when he was 10 months old. Never had a chnage table. The floor worked well. Never had a baby bath - used the bath. Never bothered with half the stuff they reckon is "essential". And never bought baby food either - its full of crap and an extra expenses. Get a blender and whizz up a bit of whatever you are having for dinner - its real then.Yeah we were a bit like that when our daughter was born. Clothes were mainly handed down from friends/family, cot had been through a few generations (though the mattress was new), cloth nappies to save money, floor or bed for nappy changes. WINZ helped us with the car seat at 6 months, up till then we used another hand-me-down. And this was just a few years ago. Once the courses were finished and employment obtained, we were able to start buying the not-so-basics (trike etc) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 614688 | 2007-11-24 19:01:00 | Pretty sure Plunket will just give anyone any sort of car seat required, You just have to give it back when your finished. as for clothes, we were given so much from friends and family we had to store it all in the shed, I eventually gave it all to some Christian place in town. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 614689 | 2007-11-24 20:23:00 | Most of the stuff I got was from people who had kids before, the only new things I got was a portacot 'cause I aint going to argue with the mrs:lol: and some diapers. | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 614690 | 2007-11-25 06:45:00 | I hear ya RoG. I got my first, also a girl, due end of Jan. It kicks like a mule. Not really sure what to expect, and after a while all the advise seems to be blurring and not making much sense. I guess I will have to wait till it happens and sort it out when we get there. |
joemac (9739) | ||
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