Naming is even harder when you're a teacher....
I wanted a name (well four to be honest, seeing as we didn't know if the twins were boys or girls) that I wouldn't associate with (former) pupils. The girls names were easy, the boys were a lot harder. To be honest we only decided the first boy's name the day before they were born..and the second boy's name 15 minutes before birth :D.
To be honest we only decided the first boy's name the day before they were born..and the second boy's name 15 minutes before birth :D.
How does that work? Surely 15 minutes before birth is the worst possible time to consult your wife over baby names, unless you want it to be called Aargh Jesus Needmoregas. :-)
How does that work? Surely 15 minutes before birth is the worst possible time to consult your wife over baby names, unless you want it to be called Aargh Jesus Needmoregas. :-)
Almost true :D. We'd been playing with a few names but hadn't come up with a name we really liked. She'd just been prepared for the caesarian when I remembered we still needed a name....I picked one I liked knowing she couldn't care less at that moment :D.
So Scottie hows it going ? Is it a nightmare with loads of getting up at 3am to do nappies etc ? Is it as bad as people make out or not too bad at all ?
He can't post now, he's asleep after an horrible baby-crying night.
Yeah thats what i thought ! A 'few' friends seemed to say it wasnt too bad, others looked like someone from the night of the living dead when i next saw them down the pub a few months later. (gulp)
So Scottie hows it going ? Is it a nightmare with loads of getting up at 3am to do nappies etc ? Is it as bad as people make out or not too bad at all ?
Give me the truth !
It'll be nowhere near as bad as you imagine, it'll just be a lack of sleep for the first 8 weeks or so and then the baby will start sleeping more through the night. That is unless you have a really hungry one!! Me and the missus worked in shifts. I did the 6pm, 10pm and 2am feeds, she did the 6am and the rest of the day. It's a case of getting your sleep around those times. And if it works for you, shove a dummy in his/her mouth. You'll get some folks telling you you shouldn't, just invite them to stay for the day and night when the baby's screaming! They work and you will be thankful for them!
Everyone worries about the nappy thing. Believe me after you've done your first dozen or so you'll do it without even really thinking about it. You will learn to associate the smell of baby wipes with the smell of crap though. Even now, two years after I changed my last nappy I can't stand the smell of them!
So Scottie hows it going ? Is it a nightmare with loads of getting up at 3am to do nappies etc ? Is it as bad as people make out or not too bad at all ?
Give me the truth !
Try changing them when your daughter has brittle bones and you have to be VERY careful. Even worse at 3AM.
I 'reckon' i'll be okay. I love american footy so over the years i've regularly stayed up till 2am or 4am watching a game and then workign the next day. Yeah its a tiring day but its just one day.
As for the nappies i'm not worried by that one bit and i told the missus i'll do all of that. As i've got a dog over the last 4 years i've picked up a ton of crap with all different type of smells so i'm not too worried by that.
I dont know, when its your own baby i dont mind too much about that sort of thing. If i was babysitting a friends baby i wouldnt like to change the nappy etc (bit like picking up crap from someone elses dog !).
But considering the missus is doing the hard work i'm happy doing all the nappies and 2am stuff.
So Scottie hows it going ? Is it a nightmare with loads of getting up at 3am to do nappies etc ? Is it as bad as people make out or not too bad at all ?
Give me the truth !
I believe a lot of parents may be sensationalising the whole changing and feeding baby in the night thing for dramatic effect. Our baby seems to sleep in 3 hour bursts at night and 2 or 1 1/2 hours during the day and really has been a real gem. He never wakes up crying and screaming, when he does wake up he just makes a couple of little groans. Emily feeds him, or I change him talk to him for a bit, rock him then he's off to sleep again. The only time he ever cries is when he's hungry or when he is about to do a big poop. However, if he wees or does a little poop then generally he does not cry. For the first two days he did not like being changed, but now he's getting used to the idea that changing his happy leads to more comfort and puts up with it without crying.
Emily is breast feeding him, its working out well, but he's very hungry and wants feeding almost every two hours. However, this is much better for him and more convenient than making up forumla i.e mixing it, ensuring its at the right temperature, cleaning and steralising the bottles. Also breast fed baby's poo less because there is more in the milk to be absorbed.
We gave him is first bath yesterday and clearly he likes it. We saw the beginnings of a smile and he made a couple of yelps of pleasure. He did cry when we took him out, he must have been having such a relaxing time.
From his fourth day (yesterday) onwards he has started to be much more allert. He stays awake for longer and has started developing an interest in music. For far he seems to respond well Wendy to Carlos's Switched on Back II , and the smooth and silky Falsetto and strings of the Stylistics.
Sounds like you're doing better than I did! I broke my eldest daughter's legs twice in three months. Luckly, the fact she was born with brittle bones was on her medical file so Social Services had no grounds to do anything.
Glad all is going well Scottie !!! I'm looking forward to these moments. Again i'm happy as hell i'm a bloke, the missus was reading another pregnancy magazine last night in bed, poor girls bricking it (i dont know why she reads these, surely they'll just scare her). She told me a bit about it which made me feel faint. I looked under my boxers and said 'thank god i'm a guy !' which she was laughing about and then annoyed as i dont have to go through the pain etc !
But yeah i'm happy as hell i dont have to do it, i'm preparing myself mentally for getting my hand crushed though
Make sure you ask the Doc for 2 masks for the gas when you're in delivery :p
Too right ! I want to be swigging on that gas !! I'm crap though if i see blood or anything else, so i'll just be holding her hand and talking crap to her but not really looking one bit. The second i see the baby will be an amazing moment but apart from that i'm staring at a wall for 10+ hours.
I've asked her not to go into labour on sunday nights as thats my american footy night ;) She didnt say okay then but on the other hand she did give me a 'death stare'. Perhaps thats a no
I've asked her not to go into labour on sunday nights as thats my american footy night ;) She didnt say okay then but on the other hand she did give me a 'death stare'. Perhaps thats a no
Yes your cunning understanding of body language is stunningly correct!
My 2 were both born by emergency caesarean. Not fun for anyone. They are 5 and 8 now, so it's all a distant memory. :razz:
I've asked her not to go into labour on sunday nights as thats my american footy night ;) She didnt say okay then but on the other hand she did give me a 'death stare'. Perhaps thats a no
I'm an American Football fan too, and watch the games here on ESPN America (3 live games on a Sunday evening.... nice :)). I had just finished watching the Steelers - Cardinals Super Bowl (finished around 4 in the morning Clogland-time), just closed my eyes....and the labour thing started :). The girls were born 12 hours later....it was 11 in the evening when I got back home......I was so tired I was almost hallucinating :D.
So good luck :P (revenge for the errr errrr name thing :P).
.... so Social Services had no grounds to do anything.
Its funny you should say that because the impression I get of social services, is that they are staffed by too greater number of conceited arseholes, are over zealous in the wrong places, down right stupid, and sometimes plain evil. They can put innocent people though hell and back, but then let real wrong doers get away with what they will until something really nasty happens. It seems sometimes they are just looking for an excuse to pounce upon people. My wife worked for a charity and observed this a number of times.
I'm an American Football fan too, and watch the games here on ESPN America (3 live games on a Sunday evening.... nice :)).
Yeah we get 3 live games every sunday. BUT you should sign up to www.nfl.com/gamepass. You pay either weekly/monthly or the full season. I've just watched every NFL game this week, sundays are the best though as you can watch your team live. Best thing i've probably bought the last few years !!
Well worth signing up for one week to see how it runs for you. The quality is superb, the games are all archived so you could go out sunday night and watch a game or two on monday (plus all archived games have the adverts edited out which is good). Plus you get NFL network live which is good.
Its funny you should say that because the impression I get of social services, is that they are staffed by too greater number of conceited arseholes, are over zealous in the wrong places, down right stupid, and sometimes plain evil. They can put innocent people though hell and back, but then let real wrong doers get away with what they will until something really nasty happens. It seems sometimes they are just looking for an excuse to pounce upon people. My wife worked for a charity and observed this a number of times.
I think they obviously mean well but in any large organisation youre going to get muppets or people who make stupid decisions or jobworthy prats. Of course you dont hear about all the good work they do, you only hear when they mess up as obviously when they do its major.
Its like the police and people moaning about them, do a great job, obviously the second they nick you for speeding or come round late if you have a burglary we all turn against them. Wouldnt like to work for social services at all !
Its funny you should say that because the impression I get of social services, is that they are staffed by too greater number of conceited arseholes, are over zealous in the wrong places, down right stupid, and sometimes plain evil. They can put innocent people though hell and back, but then let real wrong doers get away with what they will until something really nasty happens. It seems sometimes they are just looking for an excuse to pounce upon people. My wife worked for a charity and observed this a number of times.
The social workers big up the small cases to show how great they are in flagging potential situations, but they avoid the messy cases like the plague, because they should have been spotted well before they become a case. They are scared of blame being laid at their door, for not spotting them before. When you see them scurrying around, back recording ( highly unethical to say the least ), and basically trying to cover their own backsides, it makes you feel quite sick. I was once told not to mention something, purely because it would unleash " a can of worms ", needless to say, I DID mention it and it turned out to be a very messy, and major case. They pass difficult cases DOWNWARD to the more junior staff, so that they avoid the blame when things go badly wrong. I have about thirty odd years of experience involved with them and I am not at all impressed with what I have seen over the years !
Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
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I wanted a name (well four to be honest, seeing as we didn't know if the twins were boys or girls) that I wouldn't associate with (former) pupils. The girls names were easy, the boys were a lot harder. To be honest we only decided the first boy's name the day before they were born..and the second boy's name 15 minutes before birth :D.
How does that work? Surely 15 minutes before birth is the worst possible time to consult your wife over baby names, unless you want it to be called Aargh Jesus Needmoregas. :-)
Almost true :D. We'd been playing with a few names but hadn't come up with a name we really liked. She'd just been prepared for the caesarian when I remembered we still needed a name....I picked one I liked knowing she couldn't care less at that moment :D.
psj :P
Neh...Caydn (it had to have a y in it). I liked it at least :).
So Scottie hows it going ? Is it a nightmare with loads of getting up at 3am to do nappies etc ? Is it as bad as people make out or not too bad at all ?
Give me the truth !
Yeah thats what i thought ! A 'few' friends seemed to say it wasnt too bad, others looked like someone from the night of the living dead when i next saw them down the pub a few months later. (gulp)
It'll be nowhere near as bad as you imagine, it'll just be a lack of sleep for the first 8 weeks or so and then the baby will start sleeping more through the night. That is unless you have a really hungry one!! Me and the missus worked in shifts. I did the 6pm, 10pm and 2am feeds, she did the 6am and the rest of the day. It's a case of getting your sleep around those times. And if it works for you, shove a dummy in his/her mouth. You'll get some folks telling you you shouldn't, just invite them to stay for the day and night when the baby's screaming! They work and you will be thankful for them!
Everyone worries about the nappy thing. Believe me after you've done your first dozen or so you'll do it without even really thinking about it. You will learn to associate the smell of baby wipes with the smell of crap though. Even now, two years after I changed my last nappy I can't stand the smell of them!
Try changing them when your daughter has brittle bones and you have to be VERY careful. Even worse at 3AM.
As for the nappies i'm not worried by that one bit and i told the missus i'll do all of that. As i've got a dog over the last 4 years i've picked up a ton of crap with all different type of smells so i'm not too worried by that.
I dont know, when its your own baby i dont mind too much about that sort of thing. If i was babysitting a friends baby i wouldnt like to change the nappy etc (bit like picking up crap from someone elses dog !).
But considering the missus is doing the hard work i'm happy doing all the nappies and 2am stuff.
I believe a lot of parents may be sensationalising the whole changing and feeding baby in the night thing for dramatic effect. Our baby seems to sleep in 3 hour bursts at night and 2 or 1 1/2 hours during the day and really has been a real gem. He never wakes up crying and screaming, when he does wake up he just makes a couple of little groans. Emily feeds him, or I change him talk to him for a bit, rock him then he's off to sleep again. The only time he ever cries is when he's hungry or when he is about to do a big poop. However, if he wees or does a little poop then generally he does not cry. For the first two days he did not like being changed, but now he's getting used to the idea that changing his happy leads to more comfort and puts up with it without crying.
Emily is breast feeding him, its working out well, but he's very hungry and wants feeding almost every two hours. However, this is much better for him and more convenient than making up forumla i.e mixing it, ensuring its at the right temperature, cleaning and steralising the bottles. Also breast fed baby's poo less because there is more in the milk to be absorbed.
We gave him is first bath yesterday and clearly he likes it. We saw the beginnings of a smile and he made a couple of yelps of pleasure. He did cry when we took him out, he must have been having such a relaxing time.
From his fourth day (yesterday) onwards he has started to be much more allert. He stays awake for longer and has started developing an interest in music. For far he seems to respond well Wendy to Carlos's Switched on Back II , and the smooth and silky Falsetto and strings of the Stylistics.
But yeah i'm happy as hell i dont have to do it, i'm preparing myself mentally for getting my hand crushed though
Make sure you ask the Doc for 2 masks for the gas when you're in delivery :p
Too right ! I want to be swigging on that gas !! I'm crap though if i see blood or anything else, so i'll just be holding her hand and talking crap to her but not really looking one bit. The second i see the baby will be an amazing moment but apart from that i'm staring at a wall for 10+ hours.
I've asked her not to go into labour on sunday nights as thats my american footy night ;) She didnt say okay then but on the other hand she did give me a 'death stare'. Perhaps thats a no
Yes your cunning understanding of body language is stunningly correct!
My 2 were both born by emergency caesarean. Not fun for anyone. They are 5 and 8 now, so it's all a distant memory. :razz:
I'm an American Football fan too, and watch the games here on ESPN America (3 live games on a Sunday evening.... nice :)). I had just finished watching the Steelers - Cardinals Super Bowl (finished around 4 in the morning Clogland-time), just closed my eyes....and the labour thing started :). The girls were born 12 hours later....it was 11 in the evening when I got back home......I was so tired I was almost hallucinating :D.
So good luck :P (revenge for the errr errrr name thing :P).
Its funny you should say that because the impression I get of social services, is that they are staffed by too greater number of conceited arseholes, are over zealous in the wrong places, down right stupid, and sometimes plain evil. They can put innocent people though hell and back, but then let real wrong doers get away with what they will until something really nasty happens. It seems sometimes they are just looking for an excuse to pounce upon people. My wife worked for a charity and observed this a number of times.
Caption this..... (are you thinking what I'm thinking)
Cheers Scottie...that looks just like the curry I'm having for tea.....
Have somehow gone off it now....
:lol:
The shit REALLY did hit the fan :roll:
:p
Yeah we get 3 live games every sunday. BUT you should sign up to www.nfl.com/gamepass. You pay either weekly/monthly or the full season. I've just watched every NFL game this week, sundays are the best though as you can watch your team live. Best thing i've probably bought the last few years !!
Well worth signing up for one week to see how it runs for you. The quality is superb, the games are all archived so you could go out sunday night and watch a game or two on monday (plus all archived games have the adverts edited out which is good). Plus you get NFL network live which is good.
Cant live without it !
I think they obviously mean well but in any large organisation youre going to get muppets or people who make stupid decisions or jobworthy prats. Of course you dont hear about all the good work they do, you only hear when they mess up as obviously when they do its major.
Its like the police and people moaning about them, do a great job, obviously the second they nick you for speeding or come round late if you have a burglary we all turn against them. Wouldnt like to work for social services at all !
The social workers big up the small cases to show how great they are in flagging potential situations, but they avoid the messy cases like the plague, because they should have been spotted well before they become a case. They are scared of blame being laid at their door, for not spotting them before. When you see them scurrying around, back recording ( highly unethical to say the least ), and basically trying to cover their own backsides, it makes you feel quite sick. I was once told not to mention something, purely because it would unleash " a can of worms ", needless to say, I DID mention it and it turned out to be a very messy, and major case. They pass difficult cases DOWNWARD to the more junior staff, so that they avoid the blame when things go badly wrong. I have about thirty odd years of experience involved with them and I am not at all impressed with what I have seen over the years !
Yes it did right on the blades sending poo spraying around the insides of it, over the side of the bed and all over Emily.
I've had to take it apart and clean it, else it would stink every time we used it.