My kid is ridiculously cute. She makes these funny faces that crack me up, she smiles when she's falling asleep and no matter how tired I am or how grumpy I get, whenever she smiles, I smile. Period
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Man, I'm telling you, you gotta try to break the sleeping in the arms bit. It may make things difficult later on when you need her to sleep in her bed. Just sayin. Given her age, though, maybe she'll grow out of it a bit. :/
I haven't forgotten about the blanket! I just have been a tard and need a day when NOBODY is home so I can work on it. People being home = no space in the living room, which is the biggest area in the house.
I TRY, believe me I TRY! I read in What to Expect The 1st Year about spoiling your baby by holding them too much and it says at this age you really can't hold them too much and that it's actually good for their sense of security to hold them and that it teaches them to trust you for you to pick them up right away when they cry at this age. THOUGH I have friends with kids of beg to differ
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Pfft, I told you I was making it. :p I'll get it sent out as soon as I get it put together.
Yeah, I dunno. I know it's kinda meh coming from me since I don't have kids, but I learned a lot from being exposed to a baby room/toddler room at a daycare for 5 years. The workers would have such a hard time with the kids whom mom and dad spoiled so bad with little things like this. Just makes things harder in the long run. I know it's hard with the motherly instinct coming in, but just remind yourself its for both of your own good. :p She won't develop bad habits that you'll have to fight later.
Though the point that you made about you going back to work may very well help a ton. It's hard to not want to spoil kids, esp. babies, but man it creates one hell of a monster later on. I see these kids a lot at work and man, someone needs to slap the shit out of them. My parents would have KILLED me had i behaved like that. Wow.
Must be my pregnancy brain still in effect. I didn't remember you said you were making it. I have the memory of a fence post these days. lol.
I have no intentions of spoiling her in the ways that make kids assholes. haha. I hold her when she cries (which I'm sure most mothers do.) I rock her to sleep (because she wont sleep otherwise, she'll scream.) And everything I've read has said it was OK to do that at this age.
I see those asshole kids all the time and they make me crazy. I can't imagine being the kind of person who would let my kid act that way.
I've been around kids for years and years and have learned a thing or two myself, but it is very different when it's your own kid. I went into this feeling like a pro and as soon as she came out, I realized how little I actually knew. I babysat my niece and nephew every day for the first years of their lives and spent 3 to 5 days of every week with them after that. Iris is NOTHING like them. I thought I had this covered. I was wrong. lol
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I haven't forgotten about the blanket! I just have been a tard and need a day when NOBODY is home so I can work on it. People being home = no space in the living room, which is the biggest area in the house.
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Yeah, I dunno. I know it's kinda meh coming from me since I don't have kids, but I learned a lot from being exposed to a baby room/toddler room at a daycare for 5 years. The workers would have such a hard time with the kids whom mom and dad spoiled so bad with little things like this. Just makes things harder in the long run. I know it's hard with the motherly instinct coming in, but just remind yourself its for both of your own good. :p She won't develop bad habits that you'll have to fight later.
Though the point that you made about you going back to work may very well help a ton. It's hard to not want to spoil kids, esp. babies, but man it creates one hell of a monster later on. I see these kids a lot at work and man, someone needs to slap the shit out of them. My parents would have KILLED me had i behaved like that. Wow.
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I have no intentions of spoiling her in the ways that make kids assholes. haha. I hold her when she cries (which I'm sure most mothers do.) I rock her to sleep (because she wont sleep otherwise, she'll scream.) And everything I've read has said it was OK to do that at this age.
I see those asshole kids all the time and they make me crazy. I can't imagine being the kind of person who would let my kid act that way.
I've been around kids for years and years and have learned a thing or two myself, but it is very different when it's your own kid. I went into this feeling like a pro and as soon as she came out, I realized how little I actually knew. I babysat my niece and nephew every day for the first years of their lives and spent 3 to 5 days of every week with them after that. Iris is NOTHING like them. I thought I had this covered. I was wrong. lol
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