To think that having small DC turns you a bit weird?

[mrsmalcolmreynolds]

So, early hours of this morning I'm returning to bed having been up feeding DS who is 6m. I go to the toilet and realise that I now do the following as standard:

1. Don't flush the toilet at night if only done a wee (bathroom is next to DS' room and when DD was tiny it was next to her room in the house we lived in then). I know many consider this horrific but not asking about that on this thread .

1. Raise and lower toilet lid ridiculously carefully to avoid noise.

1. Not toilet related but same theme, I don't sneeze out loud - I sort of stifle it in my nose.

I think it's the fact that I now do all these things automatically whether the situation calls for them or not (other than no 1) which gets me.

So am I alone or are there other examples of odd behaviour sparked by DC out there?

I can't just pull a door shut anymore. I turn the handle then close it ridiculously slowly to avoid any sort of banging noise.

my babies never needed silence to sleep, so can't really relate to this

Getting ready for work at 5am in complete darkness and total silence because the 3 year old decided to get into my bed in the middle of the night and I don't want him wide awake at 5am!

intitgrand pleased for you but doesn't have to be sleep/noise related - examples of all types of aberrant child-prompted behaviour are welcome!

Yy to to no night- flushing

Feel at the concept of eating supper after 6pm.

Take a dustpan and brush or a baby dyson out for coffee.

also not drinking a hot cup of tea/coffee for the 1st 6 months.

Spell out words within conversation. It seems SO normal now.

"It's S-O-D-S law ..."
" I was really P-I-S-S-E-D off ..."
"Shall we get the kids' P-R-E-S-E-N-T-S this weekend?"

Poor DP. I'm really quick at doing it and I can see him struggling to keep up with me!

Also if a swear word is said within the children's earshot I quickly say a rhyming word loudly.

"That's crap...CLAP That's CLAP CLAP CLAP!"

It's worse when someone else swears as I get to embarrass everyone!

Yy JC

Different yes, not weird.