Also, since having a kid I tear up at just about any sad story that's kid related. It's crazy how you change, and at least in my case really made me appreciate some of the stuff my own parents went through.
In the hospital, getting ready to welcome kid #1. Looking forward to what lies ahead (but maybe not the next 6-12 hours).
Born at 1:41pm, 6 pounds, 2 ounces, 19.5 inches, 9/10 apgar. Just perfect. Mom went from a 2cm dilation to 7cm in one hour, and 7cm to fully dilated in about another 30 minutes. Happened so fast, my wife is a machine. What a day.
My advice... 1.) Get up and help in the middle of the night when its time to feed the baby. Its easy to let mom do it. Fight that urge. 2.) Learn how to swaddle, its really not that bad once you learn 3.) Keep an eye on mom for the next few months with regards to post-partum depression, its real and prevalent 4.) Start teaching da-da on day1, never utter ma-ma 5.) Make sure baby is taking vit. D supplement if breast-feeding exclusively and give them a little indirect sunlight 6.) Baby sleeps alone in bassinet/crib with only the swaddle blanket 7.) Car seat faces the rear in the back seat 8.) Risk of autism in baby #2 goes up dramatically the closer the birth date of baby #1 vs. baby #2 9.) If baby is crying it is almost always b/c baby is hungry or diaper is dirty 10.) Vaccinate
Pictures with Santa at 11 today. Wife has been getting ready since 8. More time has been spent on hair and makeup this morning than the previous 10 months combined.
Wife was pregnant, now she's not. :( It was very early and could have been worse, but sad panda this weekend.
Thanks. It was one of those things, very early and shouldn't have any bearing on the next one, so it's just a setback. As we know it could be much, much worse. But the wife is clearly upset.
You're right. Could have come much later. It's always going to be difficult to lose a pregnancy. Good luck going forward. Take care of her this weekend.
That sucks in the worst way my friend. I know those feels. Don't know if you've ever experienced this before or not but just keep making sure she knows it's not her fault. I know when it happened to us all my wife would do is blame herself. Just be there for her. Godspeed my friend
2 year old has had continuous diarrhea the past couple days. His butt looks like he spent the weekend with Adrian Peterson.
First time we've tried since the boy was born, so this is new. But it seems pretty common - seems like 15% percent end this way and our time frame was the danger zone. We know a ton of people who have had the same experience, including my mom and sister and a two of my wife's sisters, so she's hanging in there. This was the second time we've gotten pregnant on literally the first unprotected try, so I think we're really lucky in general. We'll try again in a couple of months. Luckily we already have one awesome little boy, so we're playing with house money. Thanks for all the nice thoughts, guys.
Try a topical antifungal twice daily. They make a couple for athlete's foot that you can get over the counter but they have what you need for a really bad diaper rash. We used it for my baby a few weeks ago based upon the advice of a pharmacist and it knocked it out in 24 hours.
Month in to dad & parenthood. Things have been pretty good and he is a very chill baby. Really only cries a few minutes a day and its typically when he is getting his diaper changed. Gotta do that fast because A) he hates it and B) is known to pee as soon as fresh air hits his penis. Great thing is he is starting to be able to focus his eyes and make eye contact. My swaddle game is pretty solid. If he has a good swaddle, he'll just hang out in his mamaroo for hours.
so first birthday is actually next monday, but we had the party this past weekend. everything went well and she didnt freak out about having a million people in her face so that was nice. they grow up so fast
Our little man is 13 months as of yesterday. Somehow everything he does just keeps getting more adorable. We've got a mistletoe hanging in our kitchen that my wife and I like to catch him under to shower him with kisses and he has started using sign language to sign "more" when we're doing it. Then on Sunday my wife was standing under the mistletoe so I gave her a kiss with a little hug. When he saw us standing under it and hugging he came walking over and grabbed one of each of our legs to initiate a family hug and then he signaled for us to pick him up.
The kid is approaching his 3rd birthday and it looks like preschool and speech therapy have started working a bit - he's stringing together some 2-3 word sentences and phrases and his vocabulary and ennunciation are improving daily. It's pretty neat. Being able to express himself more has also helped cut down on tanturms. Good times.
this has been my favorite thing lately. ours is starting to mimick more 'people' things as well and its adorable
so I got to find out what an assbeating waiting in line for santa was yesterday. at least I got a picture of my kid screaming while some jolly old fat man holds her
The boy had no interest in Santa, although we might have got 1-2 decent picks of him shaking Santa's hand. Maybe next year.
Wife's sorority sister was diagnosed with melanoma last month. She passed away this weekend. Left behind 5 yo, 3 yo, 6 month old. my 2 yo melt downs really aren't that bad because I can kiss him goodnight tonight
Daughter did ok with Santa this year. My only complaint is she asked him what type of cookie he wants Christmas Eve....snickerdoodles. Wtf. I don't eat that shit.
My 4 year old daughter asked Santa for something we are not getting her. Could be an interesting Christmas morning.
YOU KNOW WHAT I DONT GET FROM THE CONFUSED FUCK TO YOU I DON'T GET WHAT KIND OF A PUSSY YOU MUST BE IN REAL LIFE .
then tell the idiot mod I have every right to speak my mind as long as I am with-in sandbox parameters . refrased : so when did you become not confused ? the way your talking maybe your not mark and you are JW . HUH ?