Things I Thought I'd Never Do

musicalmama5 · November 2013

1) Get a white noise machine app and put my phone in the carseat with my baby

2) Baby's bedtime of 6:30PM

3) Use a shopping cart cover

Before DS was born, I saw mothers doing those things and thought they were stupid and that when I was a mom I'd never go to those ridiculous lengths. Well, I've them all now. Unapologetically.

What do you do now that you thought you'd never do?

Puck1182 · November 2013

Let DD play with my phone.

Let her sleep in bed with me at all, but most nights she ends up in our bed at some point or another, even if it's just for a little bit in the morning.

Let DD watch any TV. So far it's just been old Sesame Street episodes and Fraggle Rock and I make it interactive by singin along and such (I know pretty much all the Fraggle Rock songs. Shut up.) so I don't feel like its as bad as just sticking her in front if the tv while I do my own thing. ;-)

Felicity86 · November 2013

Let them drink formula

I tried so hard to BF my twins. I'm still sad about this. I literally tried everything (SNS, drugs, etc), but I still feel guilty.

I don't get the 6:30 bedtime as a "thing I'd never do...." Most of the studies I've read recommend a 6-7pm bedtime. I've always side-eyed moms who do an 8+pm bedtime.

musicalmama5 · November 2013

Felicity86 said:

Let them drink formula I tried so hard to BF my twins. I'm still sad about this. I literally tried everything (SNS, drugs, etc), but I still feel guilty. I don't get the 6:30 bedtime as a "thing I'd never do...." Most of the studies I've read recommend a 6-7pm bedtime. I've always side-eyed moms who do an 8+pm bedtime.

I never read anything about it before DS came along.

It just made logical sense to me that if I put him to bed later, he'd sleep later. But now I know better; babies are not logical!

Felicity86 · November 2013

musicalmama5 said:

Felicity86 said:

Let them drink formula I tried so hard to BF my twins. I'm still sad about this. I literally tried everything (SNS, drugs, etc), but I still feel guilty.

I don't get the 6:30 bedtime as a "thing I'd never do...." Most of the studies I've read recommend a 6-7pm bedtime. I've always side-eyed moms who do an 8+pm bedtime.

I never read anything about it before DS came along.

It just made logical sense to me that if I put him to bed later, he'd sleep later. But now I know better; babies are not logical!

My guys have an early bedtime and everyone seems to think i'm crazy. I've literally tried everything from 5:30-9:00 and they definitely do best with a 6:30/7 bedtime. I'm just tired of justifying this to everyone (not on this board)!

Drea926 · November 2013

I never realized I would go to such lengths to make DS smile and giggle. I sing songs, talk in crazy voices, make silly faces because I cannot get enough seeing him happy. Though I'm pretty much a kook anyway, so it really shouldn't have been that surprising.

@Puck1182 - I hear ya on the TV thing. And total admittance - sometimes after work (like today for instance) I stick DS in his super seat with some toys near the couch, so I can unwind and watch Teen Mom 3. Add that to the list of things I didn't think I would do - watch Teen Mom! :P

tamarar5 · November 2013

We tried the early bedtime, but E likes 8-8:30. On a good day (and e hasn't had many lately) he sleeps until 10am.

Things I thought I would never do:

1. Drive a mini van.
2. Buy a swing, exersaucer, Johnny jumper, or other stationary activity center.
3. Have to say "Don't chew on the trash can!"

I love my mom car! I own all the afore mentioned things, not just one, and the third SHOULD be self explanatorily....

DublinMama · November 2013

1. Let him eat in front of the TV. But I'm home alone every night and our kitchen is small and our living room is huge, so I pull the high chair in there where it's roomier and let him eat and watch Henry Hugglemonster. X_X
2. Buy into some of the "it" things that everyone says you have to have, that you don't really need. I paid $18 for the Sophie the Giraffe because it was all the rage. Then I opened it and saw how small it was! He likes it, but not anymore than any of the other 10 million things he puts into his mouth. He's just as happy with a spatula from the Dollar Tree. Lesson learned.

Rosebean · November 2013

OP, definitely do all three of what you posted! I never thought I would ever be nonchalant about having baby puke on my clothes. Whenever other babies happened to get any spit up on me, I loathed the smell. Couldn't stand it. Now I can't even notice it when I have it on my own clothes. And when I do notice, I usually shrug it off.

mishka29 · November 2013

DC2London said:
I will take this opportunity to say that I can not WAIT until my kids are older and easier and DH's siblings have young children. They think we're nuts for planning our lives around the kids' sleep and nap schedules. They completely don't get it. I bite my tongue, but in my head I am thinking, "Just. You. Wait. MWAHAHAHAHAHA"

Yeah I always thought SIL was annoying with her schedules and making everyone eat dinner at 5:30...but here I am doing the same thing. I get it now

mishka29 · November 2013

Bedtime routine starts at 6:30 here. It used to be 6.

I NEVER thought I would bed share. I was so against it before I had LO ( and she turned out to be a shitty sleeper). I will probably do it for the next one too.

bumpuser7698452 · November 2013

Spend all the monies on toys and clothes. I started my xmas stock pile this summer and have a wish list started for the grandmas in case they need ideas. I dont remember the last time I bought something for myself. Baby clothes are so much cuter than adult clothes.

ally2011 · November 2013

Felicity86 said:

Let them drink formula I tried so hard to BF my twins. I'm still sad about this. I literally tried everything (SNS, drugs, etc), but I still feel guilty. I don't get the 6:30 bedtime as a "thing I'd never do...." Most of the studies I've read recommend a 6-7pm bedtime. I've always side-eyed moms who do an 8+pm bedtime.

Side eye away, but my dd goes down between 9pm and 10pm right now. She sleeps until 8 or 9 and naps great. She is a very content baby. The last thing I read had bedtimes for her age listed as 8-10pm. I stay home and my dh does not get in from work until after 7 most nights so this schedule works well for us for now. If dd was fussy or having issues obviously we would reevaluate.

SidraJedi · November 2013

I never ever in a million years would have imagined feeding my baby hamburger before I got pregnant! I would never have imagined that I would be eating a hamburger, let alone her.

I let DD eat stuff off of the floor at home too. Before she was here I never considered that. She eats leaves and dirt and grass/clover too. I'll check for dogs droppings before we choose a place in the park to hang out. I just don't sweat the stuff I can't see. I used to try to stop her but I had to choose between not caring or exploding with stress!

I thought that I would be sitting my baby in front of the TV all the time. I love movies! Once she got here I changed my mind.

I'm sure there's others but I am tired and no feeling very creative :-S

kelly321 · November 2013

DC2London said:

Also, my kids eat floor food. Only at home, but yeah. Floor food.

Yep. I have to try to explain to DD1 why she can't eat food she drops outside at the playground because I let her do it (and do it myself) at home. I'm just glad she's not verbal enough to shout in hearing of all the other moms, "But you let us eat food off the floor all the time at home!!"

And, DC, I'm definitely the same with DH's youngest brother. He has started to accept that that's just the way it is (with schedules and DH not being able to just regularly take off for a day to go to an amusement park with him or go mountain climbing and leave me home with the kids), but I cannot wait until he has his own kids and actually gets it.

1. I also thought I would EBF, maybe even extended. Nope.
2. I thought I wouldn't let kids get in the way of DH and I going out semi-regularly. Sigh. DD1 had such awful stranger anxiety that she actually when through a (thankfully brief) phase where she would scream bloody murder if BOTH of us weren't in the room with her. Any time either of us had to go to the bathroom, she flipped out. Try getting a babysitter with that kind of kid.
3. I thought I wouldn't sleep train.

stacrb98 · November 2013

Have a bunch of battery toys. I don't buy them but with gifts and hand me downs we have a ton.

MetrosPhoenix · November 2013

I never thought I'd baby wear! I always thought it looked dumb as shit. Until I got a carrier!

colinsfebmommy · November 2013

1) I never thought I would be so laid back as a mother

2) Never thought I would be the one in bed so early from exhaustion

3) Never thought I could kiss one little person so much

* on another note for the germ people, I work for Lysol and have seen all the mass amounts of studies on different germy situations. If you use a cart cover, you are only doing your baby good if once you take him out of cart you put the seat cover in a plastic bag in car and wash it after EVERY use. Also on the food on the floor people (myself included) don't fret babies and adults need some bad germs in order for you stay healthy anyhow lol

tamarar5 · November 2013

DC2London said:

I am LOLing at my 22 year old self and the proclamations that, "I [would] NEVER drive a minivan. EVER!" Yeeeeeeah, I lusted after my minivan for a good year before I got one and now I love that thing. I love it hard.

I was under the impression that an SUV would work just fine for three kids, but I didn't really realize how huge car seats are. For us, the minivan is just so much easier. I also find them far more driveable. Every SUV I have tried to drive feels like steering a ship.

Same thing here. At 22 I swore up and down to DH (we were dating at time) that I would NEVER drive a Subaru Outback because I hated station wagons and thought they were the ugliest Mom vehicles ever. I also swore that I would NEVER own a mini van because seriously? Mom car!

Then I became a mom. I traded my Saturn Ion in on an SUV which my parents later claimed and left me car-less. DH and I started looking for cars and what was I looking at? Outbacks and Mini Vans.

MetrosPhoenix · November 2013

MonicaMerkel said:
1) I never thought I would be so laid back as a mother
2) Never thought I would be the one in bed so early from exhaustion
3) Never thought I could kiss one little person so much
* on another note for the germ people, I work for Lysol and have seen all the mass amounts of studies on different germy situations. If you use a cart cover, you are only doing your baby good if once you take him out of cart you put the seat cover in a plastic bag in car and wash it after EVERY use. Also on the food on the floor people (myself included) don't fret babies and adults need some bad germs in order for you stay healthy anyhow lol

I use a cart cover so her toys don't fall in the lower part. I'm not that worried about germs. As you can see.

colinsfebmommy · November 2013

MetrosPhoenix said:

1) I never thought I would be so laid back as a mother
2) Never thought I would be the one in bed so early from exhaustion
3) Never thought I could kiss one little person so much
* on another note for the germ people, I work for Lysol and have seen all the mass amounts of studies on different germy situations. If you use a cart cover, you are only doing your baby good if once you take him out of cart you put the seat cover in a plastic bag in car and wash it after EVERY use. Also on the food on the floor people (myself included) don't fret babies and adults need some bad germs in order for you stay healthy anyhow lol
I use a cart cover so her toys don't fall in the lower part. I'm not that worried about germs. As you can see.

LMAO OMG SO CUTE!

colinsfebmommy · November 2013

TamaraR4 said:

DC2London said:

I am LOLing at my 22 year old self and the proclamations that, "I [would] NEVER drive a minivan. EVER!" Yeeeeeeah, I lusted after my minivan for a good year before I got one and now I love that thing. I love it hard.

I was under the impression that an SUV would work just fine for three kids, but I didn't really realize how huge car seats are. For us, the minivan is just so much easier. I also find them far more driveable. Every SUV I have tried to drive feels like steering a ship.

Same thing here. At 22 I swore up and down to DH (we were dating at time) that I would NEVER drive a Subaru Outback because I hated station wagons and thought they were the ugliest Mom vehicles ever. I also swore that I would NEVER own a mini van because seriously? Mom car!

Then I became a mom. I traded my Saturn Ion in on an SUV which my parents later claimed and left me car-less. DH and I started looking for cars and what was I looking at? Outbacks and Mini Vans.

I love my Outback lol I never thought I would own one either lol Though as much as I love it, with 3 dogs and 1 kid the space is getting smaller and smaller lol

kleigh926 · November 2013

Like others have said, I didn't think I'd go to such lengths to plan my whole life around DD's naps and bedtime. She is SO not one of those kids who will sleep anywhere and she never has been, even when she was only a few weeks old... she needs specific conditions to sleep well (white noise, her footie PJ's on, and now she's starting to only want her crib). If she doesn't get her sleep, she is miserable, and being out with a miserable baby is no fun for anyone. So I will miss activities and not really care, because I'd much rather be home with a happy, sleeping baby.

Myzticsunshine · November 2013

Lmao I never thought I would be so frustrated with not sleeping! I was pulling all nighters just a a couple of years ago, no problem. Now, I'm in bed by eleven (at an average). Rare, is the occasion that I may venture to stay up to two in the morning.

I also never thought I would let my LO play with the dogs. I keep him away from the cars most always, but the dogs just love him. And they're just such gentle and tolerant dogs . He adores them!

Dannysmama · November 2013

To repeat what so many people have said, I thought I'd never be the mom thoroughly wedded to a routine. We live and we die by our routine for DS. I also thought I'd have a kid who could just nap anywhere. So, yeah, that didn't happen. Bath starts just after 6 and he's in bed before 7, always.

I thought I'd never struggle as much as I have with being a working mom. I thought I'd be able to juggle the two and have time for myself (ha! "time for myself." what is that again??). I never thought it would be as hard as it is to leave him, even though I work from home 2.5 days a week AND we have him cared for in our house.

I did however know that I would be pretty laid back about stuff like germs and spit up on my clothes. And we are. Probably too much, considering I got side eyed at the airport because I was letting DS hold himself up on a pole, while occasionally trying to eat it (which, for the record, I did try to stop).

Morgan Farrahar · November 2013

I used to think my mom friends were just making excuses when they said their baby was "just tired" and that's why they were being ornery. HAHA

Drea926 · November 2013

Sterling13 said:

I never thought I'd be so out of touch with pop culture and TV. I never thought I'd be anything other than begrudgingly fine with DS going to daycare. Turns out he loves it and him going keeps me sane. We both love it, really. I never thought I'd have such a hard time buying things for me and such an easy time buying them for someone else, but man baby clothes are cute. This one is really schmaltzy: I never thought I'd love someone else as much as I do. (And I really love DH and the rest of my family. But this is on another plane entirely.)

I totally hear you on this. The week before I went back to work I cried every night at the prospect of leaving DS all day, but once I made the transition, it's been great for both of us. I love my teaching job and he loves being with other children - and we still get plenty of time together in the afternoon. It's a nice balance.

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