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AIBU?

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to find my newborn a tad (ahem) boring

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beanlet · 06/08/2010 09:06

Don't get me wrong -- I love 4-week-old DS, and he's terribly cute, but. . .

all-day breastfeeding, burping and nappy-changing is BORING BORING BORING. I have given birth to a poo-making machine.

Please remind me it gets better when he learns how to smile at me. . .

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StealthPolarBear · 06/08/2010 15:05

"I read in a book that it was terrible to talk on the phone or be otherwise distracted during the special bonding moment of breastfeeding"

That's probably fine if you breastfeed for 5 minutes, both sides, every 4 hours. If your baby's doing the usual "latch on in the early morning then delatch 18 hours later" you'd drive yourslef mad!

eeyore2 · 06/08/2010 15:28

Exactly. That was one of the many reasons the book went in the bin.

tingelingle · 06/08/2010 15:34

Boring! So boring. I found channels on Sky I didn't know existed.

(Don't tell anyone, but now DD is 2, I still find it boring a little bit, just a teeny bit sssssssh)

bearcrumble · 06/08/2010 16:25

I'm with Diddl. I was never bored, just amazed and grateful (and bloody scared I was going to break him).

The only thing I don't miss about the early days is the TERROR of something bad happening.

mollycuddles · 06/08/2010 16:39

I am really enjoying the baby stage with dd2 now 10 wks as sitting and feeding her means I don't have to do any housework :)

I read somewhere the comment about new babies - the first year all you want is for them to learn how to walk and talk. After that for the next 17 years you just wish they would sit down and shut up!

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beanlet · 06/08/2010 17:47

Well, today I seem to have got through about 8 episodes of spooks and have thoroughly chewed breasts. That would be those "special hours and hours" of breastfeeding then.

He's definitely beginning to practise his smile muscles though :)

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Aitch · 06/08/2010 17:49

oh yes, tres boring until about twelve weeks imo. but yours, so, y'know. hang in there. iplayer is your friend.

EnglandAllenPoe · 06/08/2010 17:50

YANBU - don't like newborns. boring boring boring.

i am about to have my third, but then motherhood is the long game...not instant gratification.

OrmRenewed · 06/08/2010 17:52

Yes it's boring. But it passes. And they get 'interesting'

DillyDora · 06/08/2010 17:56

first child due in October, think I might be glad of a little boredom maybe?! Kind of ironic that I'll be going back to work when he's about 9 months and getting fun!

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beanlet · 06/08/2010 17:57

Yes, I was looking forward to some braindead time too Dilly, away from a job where I have to think all the time, but it is beginning to pall. . .

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DillyDora · 06/08/2010 18:01

heh heh - have to be careful what we wish for do we, Beanlet? Not so surprising...it's so hard to imagine what it will be like. I remember reading an interview with some woman who'd written all her novels while her children were having naps and I keep thinking...'o, maybe I'll do that' yeah, right! Soooooo Type A!

Lizcat · 06/08/2010 18:10

Newborns boring and life very isolated.
Toddler irritating.
6 year old lovely engaging individual, can I not have the other 8 months of my maternity leave now.

Emster30 · 06/08/2010 18:30

i'm with you, 3-week old ds currently feeding. am on my own today from 8am to midmight or later, oh joy. during the day i perch my netbok on the table and surf the net while feeding. at night i have been getting through about a book a night while feeding.

am consoling myself that at least bfing gives you a free hand - when i had to give him a bottle it used both hands.

dexifehatz · 07/08/2010 00:26

From the first second you hold them they are facinating.Every blink,every nose twitch,the smell of their hair and skin.Boring? What instant gratification planet are some people on? 'i pod is your friend'?!WTF?

dooneygirl · 07/08/2010 00:35

I absolutely loved and adored both mine when they were a newborn, but they ARE quite boring at that age. It also probably doesn't help that most parents are quite sleep-deprived at that stage, either. (I know I was with both of them) They do get more interesting as life goes on, and it is so fun between about 9 and 24 months, when they go on such an amazing learning curve, and you can take joy in how fascinated they are with the world around them. I have an almost 5 and almost 7 year old, and I've always thought that whatever stage of life they were in was the "best", only to find that the next stage is even better, but I never thought that when they were newborn.

FunkyCherry · 07/08/2010 23:21

I have a 6wk old.
Me and DH looked at the rain and each other this morning and said what shall DO all day with her?????
Yep, relentless & a little boring.
I'm hanging onto the fact that I'll be longing to be bored once she's mobile.

Northernlurker · 08/08/2010 00:02

Of course they are adorable from birth (and before) but they are more interesting when bigger. Today we saw friends with our many children and their many children and it was such fun seeing how they're all starting to grow up. Had they been there with newborns that would have been lovely - but not nearly as fascinating as toddlers and older children were.

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