A Small Warning

While Simon and I are doing this to keep our friends/family/acquaintences in the know and so that we can remember the experience - we know that a great many people forget the insane emotions that go through them at a time like this. They remember joy, nervousness and excitement but tend to forget things like annoyance, anger and exhaustion. This is also a little bit of an experiment for us as well as (hopefully) a bit of reality for someone else out there who wants a bit of a real play-by-play of the emotional rollercoaster of childbirth and parenting. ...granted, I know that my experience is only one...but hey...still worth trying.

That said, not all of this blog is going to be happy and shiny. There will be some real, raw emotions here and we're going to express them pretty openly. We hope that this doesn't make anyone feel as if we're in any way unhappy about the birth of our son or that we're somehow not excited or don't love him. For us, this is the reality of things that people don't really talk about or express. I think that is extremely important to remember.

We may use foul language. ...you're warned.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Things I've Learned

1. Put your infant down for the night before you're tired. Putting them down for the night may take several hours. If you start this process when you're exhausted, you'll only get frustrated and angry. If the kid DOES fall asleep straight away and you're not tired? Sleep anyway. Don't know how to go to sleep when you're not tired? Learn.

2. If your kid is spitting up every 5 minutes, do not change his clothes until he is done unless you really love laundry.

3. It doesn't matter how expensive your couch is, when it gets baby vomit on it, you will simply wipe it with a cloth and worry about it later.

4. Folding babies in half makes them fart.

5. There really is no medication that is going to fix your baby's gas but in desperation you will try them all anyway.

6. Cuddling your baby while they sleep is very pleasant but may very well lead to them refusing to sleep unless held which is extremely annoying.

7. Even after you decide to stop cuddling your baby to sleep, you'll continue to do it because YOU enjoy it.

8. Sleep deprivation can drastically affect breastmilk production.
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