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3rd Trimester
Seasoned Mommies
So many of us first timers are so set on what we will and will NEVER do with our children.
So I'm wondering...what is something that you did with your child (or allowed) that you either did or did not know at the time was a bad idea and now totally regret?
I'm not planning on flaming, just curious. My twin has kids and there are always those secret Mommy confessions. I.E. on day at day care (her DD was 2 1/2) my sister had been slowly weaning of off of her bottle (she knew it should have been done long before that). So sister drops her DD off at daycare and DD has a melt down. She is screaming MAMA wanna BA! The daycare workers were like "what is she saying", my sister was like I don't know...Never heard that before.
She was weaned that weekend for good. LOL
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Re: Seasoned Mommies
My husband started this habit of laying w/ our daughter to get her to go to sleep. Now every night for the last 4 years she has expected it. I make him do it since he started it.
Another one is letting my kids watch PBS kids when they get home from daycare so I can get dinner on without 2 kids hanging on me. Well now if they don't get to watch it I hear about it for a half hour. Screaming kids at 5 in the evening is really hard to handle, especially when I am pregnant and tired.
I'll say one thing I have not allowed is excessive eating out and pop drinking. To this day it is a major treat to get pop or go to McD's so I am not a total failure.
Really, I don't have any regret either. Like pp, our language is not the best and DS is getting to that age where he repeats everything so we really need to work on that.
But for the most part, DH and I have kept each other strong on all the things we wanted. No sleeping with us, he is on a great schedule, we avoid junk food for the most part (well, for him, not always us ; ), we discipline on a 2 warning system... I don't know. My DS is a really laid back, "pleaser" kind of kid so I think that helps too.
I guess one thing is, we used to go out to eat and see a kid bouncing around a booth and say our kid will never do that. He will sit in a seat and learn from a early age how to act at the table. Well, we do let DS run around the booth (not get out of the booth though, just at our table). He sits in his chair when the food comes but its just way too much to expect him to stay there the entire wait and then meal. So I woudl say that is one thing we do that we used to say we would not
Hmm... I am desperately trying to get DS into his own room. He slept with me for a month or so when he was born, then moved to his bassinet, moved to a PnP when he was too big for the bassinet and then to his own crib in his room. At probably 9 months or so he would start waking up crying in the middle of the night from teething so DH would bring him in bed with us. Slowly this turned into him sleeping in bed with us and now I feel like I'm never going to get him out! It doesn't bother me but once the baby is here I know he won't be able to sleep once the baby wakes up.
No co-sleeping after he's transitioned to a crib with this one... I can't handle my 16 month old taking up the bed as it is!
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For us, it was trying to get him to sleep - I NEVER wanted him in our bed, thinking that it would set up bad habits - but I quickly found out that you do what you need to do to grab some sleep. Especially when you have a colicky baby who won't stop screaming for 5 hours... And by 8 months old, he was sleeping through the night in his own crib, in his own room... so "bite me" to all the haters out there.
The other was no TV till they are over two... well, I got to one with with no TV or videos. But since then, Sesame Street in the morning lets me clean up breakfast, throw a load of laundry in, fold the completed laundry from the day before, and check email, all in that precious Elmo soaked hour. So God Bless Sesame Street.