Comments on: Se7en things I Never Thought About Before Having a Baby…

By: se7en

se7en — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:35:16 +0000

Hi M, Nice to meet you!!! Thank-you for a wonderful comment I loved hearing your story!!! Have a good week!!!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:17:45 +0000

I love your site. Nobody ever told me how wonderful nursing would be. I decided to do it because it was the best. Nobody ever said how wonderful you would feel when baby #1 would just relish his food, or baby #2 would just look at you with adoration. I loved that part. They also didn’t tell me how hard it could be at the start (glad they didn’t) or that I’d finally get past the pain for baby #1, used to the exhaustion, healed a bit from the emergency C-section, and at 3 months he would grow his first two teeth, and learn how to use them as weapons at 3 1/2 months. Not always fun…but like childbirth, you can forget the pain. Like all things with kids…AMAZING.

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Se7en Things People Ask Me About Siblings. » se7en — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:40:24 +0000

[...] the post: Se7en things I Never Thought About Before Having a Baby… I got a heap of comments of folk asking me “What about siblings?” And since we have a [...]

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Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:39:47 +0000

[...] Se7en things I Never Thought About Before Having a Baby: Before having our first baby the only thing I thought about was getting through labor. It was my all consuming thought! I never gave a moments thought to living with a baby – apart from the fact that sweet commercial image of mothers sitting serenely in immaculate soft-lit homes while their babies slept. And then there was a bit of a reality check!!! [...]

By: se7en

se7en — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:07:53 +0000

Hi M!!! After 14 weeks with my first I was still staggering around in shock – in fact 12 years later I am still overwhelmed!!!! – I think its a first born thing rather than a newborn thing!!! With my first a friend told me to write a sleep diary for a week… like a food diary, but for sleep, every nap, every snooze… after three days I quit because I realized what I thought was NO sleep was adequate (not a great abundance!!!) just adequate!!! But it gave me the confidence to keep going!!! Hang in there – it is still very early days for you!!!

By: Marcia Francois

Marcia Francois — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:54:14 +0000

Love this post too! After 14 weeks of the newborn stage (because mine were 8 weeks prem) I’ve decided I’m not a newborn person – I’m just now starting to emerge from the fog that is sleep deprivation.

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Se7en Things You Forget About Newborns and Newborn Mums… | se7en — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:59:57 +0000

[...] first time round the whole focus is on the birth and getting the birth you are after… that I never really thought too much about living with a newborn. Now for the eighth time I should be an old hand at living with a newborn. But, and here’s the [...]

By: se7en

se7en — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:28:33 +0000

Hay S, Glad you liked this post too! Really why it took me nine months to find the La Leche League I don’t know!!! How much easier life would have been for all of us if I had just made the call sooner!!!

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:21:54 +0000

Great post! I especially agree with the breast-feeding one. I thought I would just hold the baby near by, and he/she would know what to do! Looking back that seems really ridiculous, but I had only ever seen a couple of moms doing it, and they made it look so easy. As it turned out it was never easy for me, with any of my kids, but it sure would have been easier if only I had known about La Leche League before my first!

By: se7en

se7en — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:35:39 +0000

Yeah, the reality is a little different to what is portrayed isn’t it!!! Funny thing is, even from baby to baby we forget what its like with a newborn. When all your advice is coming from people who had babies two or three or even ten years before well the truth has long been forgotten – it really helps to hang out with mums of newborns before you have a baby!