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to brag a little about my perfect baby??

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catinboots · 27/07/2010 15:45

I know, I know - this is smuggery at it's finest. But I really need to brag a lot little about my perfect baby.

DS2 is 20wks old and the easiest baby anyone could wish for. My NCT friends call him 'The Perfect Baby'. He's so VERY different from DS1(10)!

He is BF but still sleeps for 11 straight hours at night and for a long 3 hour nap in the day. He always wakes up smiling and gurgling - never crying.

I can put him down in his gym/bumbo/swing all day long and get on with my chores.

Nothing seems to phase or worry him. He is Mr Laid Back Larry.

I know, I know - he will be a vile toddler. Or a horrific teen. But please let me boast about him while I can .

Disclaimer - this is nothing to do with my excellent/determined/astringent parenting! He's just a groovy little guy!!!

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catinboots · 28/07/2010 08:08

ginger - no offence taken at all!!

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MrsChemist · 28/07/2010 08:16

Everyone tells me how pleasant DS is. He has his moments (as we all do) but I know I've been very fortunate.

Nothing to do with me, he's just like that. I have a feeling the next one will be a nightmare, just to keep me on my toes.

GiddyPickle · 28/07/2010 08:25

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midori1999 · 28/07/2010 08:42

No, YANBU.

But then I must not BU for saying all three of my boys were 'perfect' babies, 'perfect' toddlers and also now perfect children.

reallytired · 28/07/2010 09:51

catinboots, my daughter was exactly the same at 20 weeks. She was exclusively breastfed and feeding through the night and very easy going.

It all went pear shaped with teething.

NicknameTaken · 28/07/2010 09:54

Enjoy. Someone has to get the easy babies.

My DD was known as Propaganda Baby (admittedly by my mother, who is possibly just a little biased). She may well be my only baby, so I can congratulate myself without challenge on my infinitely superior parenting. I'm just a natural!

ShrimpOnTheBarbie · 29/07/2010 01:09

No, really, you are all wrong. I have the BEST baby in the world!
She is just delightful. A constant joy. She hardly ever cries - and even if she does it is so soft and more of an alert to what her need may be (or that a tooth is coming through). She LOVES to cuddle but also is so happy just to relax on her play mat.
I find it funny when we go out and people stop to coo and congratulate me on being such a calm mum as babies pick up on their mother's nature - because my eldest is a high maintenance drama queen who has been exclaiming her displeasure at the top of her lungs since the moment she was born!
It is lovely to get to really enjoy having a baby rather than being constantly yelled at by a mini dictator!

SacharissaCripslock · 29/07/2010 01:19

My DS3 was a perfect baby. He never cried. Honestly. He'd give a wee gurgle/gurn to let me know he wanted something but he never screamed his head off like his big brother! He was a complete dream baby - slept well, never ever threw up on anyone (only the slightest of possets), never had colic, one very laid back dude.

He's 2.8 now and a little devil! Does still sleep through and is so so cute and adorable but boy is he WILD. He's making up for lost time.

musicposy · 29/07/2010 05:54

Haha! My eldest was a difficult baby who turned into a wild toddler. She never slept from day one and spent half of her awake time crying, tantrumming or up to mischief. It was nearly 4 years before we could even contemplate having another!

My 2nd was such a contrast I couldn't believe my luck. Perfect baby, turned into a perfect preschooler. Content, happy, placid, actually slept, easy to reason with. DD1's infant school once said to me "you'd better be sending this angel child to us!" You just couldn't hope for a more perfect and easy baby and toddler.

My eldest is now a teenager and lovely, the easiest teen you could possibly imagine.

My youngest, however, is nearly 11 and I think I Am Paying The Price .

That's a long way off for you, though! Enjoy your lovely perfect baby while it lasts!

gingernutlover · 29/07/2010 07:08

okay so can mumsnet guarantee that if i have number 2 it will be chilled out, happy gurgling smiling baby, yeah?

I so wish i could get that in writing ...

thephoenix · 29/07/2010 07:28

I want to cry reading this.
DC4 is 18 months and has yet to sleep through the night. For the past 3 1/2 weeks he has had a cough (that the sodding gp claims isn't THAT bad) which keeps us up all night. I estimate I'm getting approximately 3 hours sleep each night as mostly have to sit propped up holding him as he sleeps better. DH away for another month. Never felt so crappy in my life.

But I love him to bits and he is the best baby in the world

pippylongstockings · 29/07/2010 07:41

My DS1 was very chilled laid back slept through the night at 4 months etc - then when he was about 2 he went into full headbanging on the floor and walls mode, and kind of has never grown out of this extreme way of behaving when things don't go his way.

Cue yesterday when I asked him to get dressed (he is 5) - hysterics of crying and shouting in his room 'Somebody help me - I am all alone - You have left me alone - Why is no-one helping me?' I honestly thought the neighbours would ring SS!

DS2 cried all the time when small - now very laid back 3 yearold. I was worried that he would learn his brothers behaviour but he seems to do the opposite.

EveWasFramed72 · 29/07/2010 08:53

I had two of these babies...DS was the sweetest baby to draw breath, and DD was hard for the first 6 weeks because of reflux, but once she was on medication, all she did was squeal with delight at EVERYTHING.

And...take heart...mine are now 4 and 2.10, and though DS (4) is a really busy kid, they are both still lovely and sweet...nothing to do with me,or my parenting... I'm a nightmare!

LimaCharlie · 29/07/2010 08:56

Enjoy it - so lovely to hear positive stories rather to give hope to sad unhappy sleep deprived mums who are really struggling

sweetkitty · 29/07/2010 08:57

Oh yes I have one of those 2 in DD1, I thought "what is all the fuss about?" she loved her sleep (still does at 6), if not sleeping would be happy to lie on her mat very content. I must admit I was bored and thought "hey let's have another one!"

Then I got DD2..............

ticklebug74 · 29/07/2010 09:08

Oh its bliss isn't it. Both mine have been fairly easy going, slept well, smiled lots - so much that I find myself telling little white lies to my mummy friends so as they do not appear so perfect. I feel awful when we meet and they are sleep deprived, dealing with toddler tantrums, not eating etc etc etc so I usually say nothing or say yes my DS has been waking early or DD is not eating well. But do enjoy it - there will be bad days - but some of us do not get as many of those as others

Morloth · 29/07/2010 09:30

I will give you smug.

DS1 was an easy peasy baby, and is an easy peasy, pleasant 6yo.

DS2 is even easier than DS1 was as a baby.

It can't be parenting (how much actual parenting have we done at 4 months?), I think I just got lucky!

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catinboots · 29/07/2010 20:44

tickle - how funny. Me too!! I often tell white lies to my NCT friends about DS2 making him out to be more difficult than he is!!

I feel guilty that some of them are struggling and don't want to appear smug. I fabricate 'difficulties' to fit in with the crowd

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CardyMow · 30/07/2010 08:40

DD - love her to pieces, but a very difficult baby from birth, even had to be taken off the mat ward and put in the nursery as she was 'upsetting the other babies on the ward'. She was a very difficult toddler, not easy as a child, and is now almost a teenager...and no better! DS1 - very bright, but very wilful, and pedantic, will argue black is white, and didn't sleep through until he was at full time school! DS2 - slept through, despite being bf, from 7 weeks old, laid back, nothing bothers him, easy toddler, no tantrums, still easy now at almost 7yo. Am now wondering what number 4 will be like. (Am currently 15+5).

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