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No Sleep and No Coffee Makes Parents Something Something
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Emmadilema123 wrote: »It gets easier when you accept that this is your life for the foreseeable lol my acceptance came after 2nd baby was born! No going back now I thought. Life got so much easier when number 2 came. Ppl think I'm mad when I say that but its the genuine truth!
I have number 3 on the way now and I'm told thats a complete game changer and a logistical nightmare so watch this space lol
A friend of mine with five under five (including twins) told me "Your life is ruined with the first anyways, so you might as well go on!"
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Diamond Doll wrote: »A friend of mine with five under five (including twins) told me "Your life is ruined with the first anyways, so you might as well go on!"
Hahaha its true though! Just surrender because your life will never be the same again! The sooner you realise that, the sooner you can get on with making your new life great! Easier said I know ! The first is the hardest for sure!0 -
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I would love 4 or 5 in an ideal world where money isn't an issue! My first is only 8 months old but it's mostly been easier than I expected, even with the fact that he still wakes every 2-3 hours all night! Breastfeeding has been a walk in the park, my husband is brilliant and our lifestyle hasn't changed very much at all so that all helps. But realistically with finances, work, and depending on my health during pregnancies (had pre eclampsia) we'll definitely try for another, possibly two. I'd try again in the morning if it wasn't for work (self employed) and c section scar. I'm 30 he's 35, so age wise I would prefer not to be having small babies quite far into his 40s, just from a financial point of view. If we win the lotto we can have them til we're ancient 0
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I would be happy with three...hubby happy with two...So will probably be only two :-(
I would like 3 my husband is happier with 2. He's 37 and I'm 30 (currently pregnant on number two). It took us a year each time to get pregnant so I think he's worried he'll be in his 40's by the time 3 gets here whereas I don't have the same concerns.
I have my powers of persuasion
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I would like 3 my husband is happier with 2. He's 37 and I'm 30 (currently pregnant on number two). It took us a year each time to get pregnant so I think he's worried he'll be in his 40's by the time 3 gets here whereas I don't have the same concerns.
I have my powers of persuasion
My dad was 48 when I was born (my 2 bros and 1 sis all about 10 years older than me). He was an awesome dad and being 10 or 20 years younger wouldn't have made him any better. You're as young as you feel I reakon. Ur OH has loads of time! 0 -
My dad was 48 when I was born (my 2 bros and 1 sis all about 10 years older than me). He was an awesome dad and being 10 or 20 years younger wouldn't have made him any better. You're as young as you feel I reakon. Ur OH has loads of time!
See this is it and he knows it! My dad was in his fourties too when my youngest sister arrived and if anything she got a more relaxed, done this four times before Dad
He only brings it up in relation to sleepless nights but sure he'll get over that. He puts up a half hearted argument whenever it comes up... He wants a third he just doesn't to know it yet 0 -
Any tips for dealing with "monsters?" S has taken to getting very frightened if he is woken up by strong winds at night and thinking it's monsters in the bed. I'm not sure where it comes from, I've made sure that any experience he has had of monsters have been funny rather than scary and in the daytime he loves singing monster mash and hugging any teddies he deems monsters but at night the wind terrifies him. He sleeps with me all the time, so it's not as if taking him into my bed for a cuddle will calm him down as that's all he knows at night but the wind noise is still scaring him. He'll calm down if I turn the light on but then it's 50/50 whether he'll go to sleep or decide it's playtime. We managed to have a decent night's sleep last night as there was no wind but the few nights before it were hellish and I can see that we're due more windy storms from Friday.
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See this is it and he knows it! My dad was in his fourties too when my youngest sister arrived and if anything she got a more relaxed, done this four times before Dad
He only brings it up in relation to sleepless nights but sure he'll get over that. He puts up a half hearted argument whenever it comes up... He wants a third he just doesn't to know it yet
Lol. Well if it's half arsed there's definitely room for manoeuvre! Lol. My OH wants to stop at 3 but I will defo brooch a 4th with him when and if the time comes. He's only 30 (3 years younger than me) so can't use the age excuse. But will prob use the sleepless nights excuse. And to be fair to him... He is up so so so much more than I am with them.0 -
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Any tips for dealing with "monsters?" S has taken to getting very frightened if he is woken up by strong winds at night and thinking it's monsters in the bed. I'm not sure where it comes from, I've made sure that any experience he has had of monsters have been funny rather than scary and in the daytime he loves singing monster mash and hugging any teddies he deems monsters but at night the wind terrifies him. He sleeps with me all the time, so it's not as if taking him into my bed for a cuddle will calm him down as that's all he knows at night but the wind noise is still scaring him. He'll calm down if I turn the light on but then it's 50/50 whether he'll go to sleep or decide it's playtime. We managed to have a decent night's sleep last night as there was no wind but the few nights before it were hellish and I can see that we're due more windy storms from Friday.
Yeah the winds are waking our guy too. Usually he's grand and understands once I tell him its the wind and goes back to sleep with a cuddle.
When he cries because of a monster I use "monster spray". Basically water in a spray bottle with a big monster sticker label on it. He knows that the stuff I spray in the loo stops germs, and that the fly spray /insect repellent repels them, so monster spray is quite logical to him. I do tell him that there are no monsters in our house because we use the spray, occasionally I squirt the rug beside the bed for some visual reassurance for him.0 -
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