Here is the first edition of things I said I'd never do, but have done.
1) I'll never tip-toe around my house while the kid is napping. I wanted my kids to be used to napping with the sounds of the house happening around them.
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Fast forward...... It took me 30 minutes to get Cooper to fall asleep and I know that if he doesn't nap, he will be a grumpy, screaming mess. Quite frequently my husband and I find ourselves whispering and tip-toeing around so we don't wake the baby. Rory has resorted to making margaritas in the garage because the blender is so loud (and we really needed a margarita).
2) I'll never have a rigid schedule and schedule everything around the baby.
Fast forward........ When he was a newborn Cooper could nap anywhere, but in the last month or so he has had a much harder time falling asleep and staying asleep in his car seat, in the stroller, or in the Ergo. When we doesn't nap, he gets grumpy. He also gets very grumpy when we wake him up before he is ready. So here I am at the mercy of the baby's whims. We leave whenever he decides to wake up and come home when he decides he needs a nap.
3) I won't force my baby to eat, he will eat when he gets hungry enough.
Fast forward...... Cooper has thrown us a lot of curve balls when it comes to eating. For awhile he wouldn't eat on my left side, then he didn't want to eat on either side, now he doesn't want to take a bottle anymore. Each time we have gone to ridiculous lengths to get him to eat- like me side planking over him for an entire feeding- because something just feels so wrong about letting him get too hungry.
Are there things you swore you'd never do (either as a parent or just in life) that you have found yourself doing later?
I am totally laughing at the margarita! And these don't seem unreasonable at all! It makes sense to be a slave to his schedule to start!
ReplyDeleteI can't think of anything I swore I'd never do! Ha, I did swear we'd never have two cats, that Data was an only child ;)