Hayes is doing GREAT! He is so alert and loves to be talked to. I cannot believe he is almost 2 months old! My little baby is already changing so much.
But this post is not directly about him...it's about the things someone should tell you straight-forward and honest. And I'm just the person to do it!
1. Cloth diapers sound great but if you don't have some deep seeded need to save the planet, you won't end up doing them. I had great aspirations of saving money while saving Hayes from dreaded diaper rash and I caved when it came time to buy them! Pampers swaddlers are basically like cloth but you don't have to wash them!! Yeah for disposable...
2. Baby Wise is wonderful for SUGGESTIONS on parenting - when it gets down to it however, I don't know too many parents of newborns who will WAKE their baby up to feed them if they just ate an hour ago. We didn't and won't with future children either. They will let you know when they are hungry! Hayes goes from zero to mad when he is ignored more than a few minutes.
3. Epidurals are wonderful....it's all the rage, cave in to peer pressure and just do it! I think if they would give me one right now that I would say yes....it was as close as I've ever been to being high and I can understand why people are addicted to drugs after that wonderful experience!
4. Go ahead and get the suped-up baby monitor that monitors their breathing/movements while they sleep. I thought that it was overkill when I registered. After he was born, however, I could not sleep for more than a few minutes because if he got quiet (i.e. finally asleep) I would wake up to make sure he was still breathing. Go ahead, spend the extra dough and be able to get some sleep! As a matter of fact, this might be what I give to future moms who are close enough to me to be reading this....you're welcome!
5. Take it easy on the clothes - this was one I got right: Let people give you all the cute clothes they can grab for you, then sit back and wait. I bought just a couple of things for Hayes because I was scared that if I stocked up on any one size that he would not get to wear them because of either size or season. He is two months old and has been wearing 3-6 months for several weeks. I'm so glad that I don't have a hundred 0-3 month outfits. AND it has gotten cold up here some so I have changed the content of his wardrobe as well.
6. For my drinking moms (man, that sounds bad) - you WILL be out of practice when you have a drink for the first time after 9 months of teetotaling. Take it easy, you will get buzzed after a drink and you will have a headache...after ONE drink!
More to come...
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Will you go ahead and get me one of those fancy baby monitors now.... I'm constantly waking up in the middle of the night to make sure Julia is still breathing...
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