November 2015 Moms
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I'll NEVER do that with my baby....
DogLoverX3
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LOL! This is meant to be a fun post! As I was reading the post about baby food, and thinking about the recommendations our speech therapist gave us, I thought to myself..."Oh the things I never thought I'd do!"
I know my situation is a little different, having spent the entire month of Feb in the hospital and with our daughter have a NJ tube now, but I'm going to start us off.
First, an iPad in the crib. You've got to be kidding! She's 3 months; she doesn't need screen time, but when you are stuck in isolation in a hospital room, desperate times call for desperate measures. Miss Charlotte LOVES Mickey Mouse on the iPad! Playing in our food-no way! Speech just recommended we put her in a high chair (she'll be 4 months next week) and put baby food on the tray and let her play in it and put her hands in her mouth. She doesn't want eating and/or oral activities to be feared and forgotten due to the feeding tube in her intestines. She aspirates thin liquids and refluxes and then aspirates even 5ml of thickened formula(we tried it in the hospital). This is supposed to allow some oral work without getting too much in her stomach! And make eating fun, since it never has been! Anyway, that was a little long I guess! But those are a couple things I swore I'd never do! Lol
Ok moms, what are some things you swore you'd never do, but it didn't really work out that way?!
I know my situation is a little different, having spent the entire month of Feb in the hospital and with our daughter have a NJ tube now, but I'm going to start us off.
First, an iPad in the crib. You've got to be kidding! She's 3 months; she doesn't need screen time, but when you are stuck in isolation in a hospital room, desperate times call for desperate measures. Miss Charlotte LOVES Mickey Mouse on the iPad! Playing in our food-no way! Speech just recommended we put her in a high chair (she'll be 4 months next week) and put baby food on the tray and let her play in it and put her hands in her mouth. She doesn't want eating and/or oral activities to be feared and forgotten due to the feeding tube in her intestines. She aspirates thin liquids and refluxes and then aspirates even 5ml of thickened formula(we tried it in the hospital). This is supposed to allow some oral work without getting too much in her stomach! And make eating fun, since it never has been! Anyway, that was a little long I guess! But those are a couple things I swore I'd never do! Lol
Ok moms, what are some things you swore you'd never do, but it didn't really work out that way?!
Re: I'll NEVER do that with my baby....
#1 co-sleeping. because "its not safe" and "baby will ruin our sex life" blah blah blah. He can see in our minds when we plan on doing it anyway. it's too quiet..WHY IS IT SO QUIET MOM???
#2 Sharing a million and one pictures with friends that probably don't really care.
#3 Spending too much money on clothes for him.
#4 Giving him my phone to entertain him. I only do it in the car because its the only way he'll stop screaming at me to get him out of the torture device from hell we call a "carseat".
Wraps... you want me to take how many yards of fabric and do what??!!! After this LO screamed non stop in the ergo, I now have a woven wrap we both love.
Cosleeping. We only did it for a little bit but I swore we would never do it. But LO would only sleep on me until we let him sleep in our bed. He got comfortable in his cosleeper and I think that made him comfortable enough to sleep earlier in his crib.
IPad/screen time. I swore he didn't need it. But he loves garage band and making music. And today he actually watched almost an entire half hour episode of a tv show. I watched it with him and we cuddled but he loved it.
I I also said didn't plan to let my son dictate our schedule. Forget that. He yawns and nothing else matters - get that kid to his crib for his nap before it's too late!
Any moms out there who have been able to stick to their guns with things they " will never do with their baby"?
Paw patrol is a gift from heaven
FYI - Tankinis are a godsend. A one piece and a small child doing the peepee dance or even worse is a recipe for disaster.
I've worked as a nanny for years, which of course is no true comparison to parenting, but it did give me a lot of insight about how controllable kids are. So it always drove me insane when childless friends make "that'll never be my child" comments about kids out in public. Oh, you're going to have a perfect angel who never cries, never throws a tantrum, never sees a screen because they are always playing outside, and you'll never ever lose your patience with calmly explaining to them that they can't have that candy they want after they've asked, no demanded, for the 37th time? Cool, congratulations, I look forward to seeing reality hit you.
With that said, I'm all for realistic "I will nevers" that parents are passionate about. By all means, stick to your guns and raise your child the way you plan. Or change your plan, either is cool. Cause we are all just doing the best we can.
The one thing I have stuck to is no co sleeping. I have a friend who did and still does with her 9 and 4 year old. I don't want that to be me...
While we don't cosleep at night, we do sometimes do it on weekend mornings if I want to sleep in, or for napping. I am still scared to do it if it's too dark in the room, but if I can see her face, it's really nice to be able to bring her to bed in the morning, nurse and go back to sleep for a couple of more hours on a weekend.
We also said we wouldn't do any food until 6months or so but he has sampled some licks of a few fruits. I also let him lick a sour gummy worm to see how he reacted...he licked his lips for like 5mins and then kept trying to bring it back to his mouth lol
I also said I wouldn't let my house get filled with plastic gizmos, and that went out the window really fast. I was all about cloth, fabric, wood, etc., and being as "natural" as possible or whatever. While I do try to play with him one-on-one and entertain him with non-toy toys (like crinkly paper and stuff), he has plenty of Fisher Price, Playskool, and Little Einstein thingies. Oh well.
i also love my nose frida! I never wanted to use it but it's so satisfying; I couldn't live without it!
When she got sick, LO wouldn't settle unless she was held, so... needless to say a little cosleeping happened.
I hate clutter and didn't want a bunch of brightly coloured baby things all over the house, and we've done pretty well with that. I bought a lot of our things used and resell them as soon as she has outgrown them. We have a basket for toys and only keep what fits inside upstairs, the rest is in a big tub in the basement that we rotate out.
Swore we would never use a soother. DD uses one every nap and at night, since about four weeks.
Also said I would take the time to get ready every day, put on makeup, dress baby . . . messy bun, leggings and pj's are the norm most days. What is makeup?
The one that I've stuck to so far has been no co-sleeping. Not because I haven't wanted to! There's just no room in our bed lol