To ask what you naively swore you wouldn't do when raising your child - but ended up doing?

[m4rdybum]

Lighthearted really, but curious

When pregnant, we bought a new born bottle set which had a dummy included. Silly old me said "oh well we'll have it for emergencies but I really don't think we'll use it - they're awful don't you know".

DD is now 13 days old and has had her dummy from the first night Because it settles her and gives mummy and daddy a bit of quiet.

Oh god I’d be a brilliant mother of my kids weren’t around.

TV
Junk food
Sweets, crisps, whatever the little --fuckers- Darlings want to just let me drink a cup of tea.
I also said I wouldn’t share a bed....co slept with all 4 and still got 2 yo dd in there breastfeeding all bloody night.

Basicaybeen the huge pushover o swore I wouldn’t 😂👌

I copped out in labour. I had a vision of a birthing pool full of dolphins or some such shit, in reality I was screaming for more drugs the whole way through. (In my defence it took 26 hours.)

Then I copped out over dummies. I think I might actually have lost my marbles without them.

Then it was educational toys and flashcards, flogged the lot at a car boot and invested in Fisher Price

After that I narrowed the definition of banned junk foods. Soooo, pretty much everything

I said the same about the dummies

We said that when DD is napping during the day we will countinue to speak in normal voice and do what we need to so she can distinguish between day & night.. she is 5 months old now and when she naps we do not dare to breath loudly incase she wakes up

I said no dummies with dd1 but caved after 6 weeks because she was so colicky. However DD2 is 7m and I haven't given her one

Tbh I don't think there was much I swore I wouldn't do. I tried to be quite realistic so anything I was sure of I've stuck to

I went in completely open minded 😂I started of as any thing for a quiet life and stuck to it 😂
Now my DD talks in American accent and her baby have diapers instead nappies she also moves cotton candy instead of candy floss and wants to go to Chucky cheese at the weekend 😂( dam American you tubers )

Where do I start?
Dummies
Co sleeping
Chocolate/sweets
Moaning
I could go on.
I was going to be an excellent parent, then I actually became one. They're 9 and 14 now and seem to have survived!

Another one for dummies here. DS never needed one but they saved DD from being launched out of the window.
Sugar. We did well for DD's first year but then it gradually went to pot and we didn't even try for DS. They don't have masses and eat well generally but do have more sugar than I thought my kids would have.
Screens. They weren't going to watch them. DD has had her own ipad since she was 2. One of her first phrases was "skip ad"

Party bags.
Various crappy toys that were "must haves" at the time (loom bands, bumpies).
Full time school from age 4 (I wanted to flexi school or home school but mine like school)
Gaming /screens

The crap food (their choice )
The screen time , esp winter
The temper (mine !)
The fact i cherish child free time
Everything

Was never going to just put dd in front of the tv, lasted until she was 15 months, I was pregnant with dd2, suffering all day morning sickness & realised what a very fine thing CBeebies really was!

Thought co-sleeping with a baby sounded terribly dangerous then got a baby that refused to sleep alone and is still in our bed 16 months later

Co-sleeping! Used to think others were being ridiculous

Limited screen time. What a LOL. DS has loved tv since early on. Whoops.

Dummies - yep I cracked that one out about one week in.

Breastfeeding - was going to be a guru, love it, embrace it - except DS didn't latch well. Coupled with PND and it didn't last long much to my dismay.

Organic weaning. Ella's Kitchen was like crack to weaning, 99.9 centile DS.

In fact literally every idea or notion I had about being a mother has been tested

Dummies (I have twins, one loved his the other used to spit it out, so I was nearly there)
Cloth nappies (didn't even last a month)
TV
Plastic tat
Only ever watching films that they were the right age for
Happy Meals
Homework straight after school
Phones
Social media
Wearing of sports clothing All the time, where did my cute Boden babies go?
Food as a treat

And probably loads more stuff.

I did hold out on junk food in the house (sort of), 5 a day, doing chores, checking up on them on social media and bedtimes.

One of her first phrases was "skip ad"

ROFL. Thank you. I feel so much better about the way i parent, compared to how I thought I’d parent now. My dd could skip the ad by herself from a surprisingly early age.

I genuinely don’t find the post about their child’s American accent from You Tube videos funny

Another one for dummies! Ended up fetching them in to hospital to help settle my little girl( was in a few days).

That I would move things out of the way and they would just learn not to touch, I've got so much stuff hidden!!

Dummies - DS1 never had one and I'd feel slightly smug about it if I'm honest in retrospect. DS2 had his first dummy as soon as I was well enough to get to the shop!

Saying 'because I said so!' in response to 'why?'. There's only so many times you can explain why over and over before you lose the plot.

I was going to have a water birth and breastfeed for at least a year with DC1.
Cue EMCS and stopping breastfeeding after 6 weeks due to hideous abscess.

‘No dummy’ lasted until I stopped breastfeeding.

I clearly remember being about 12 weeks pregnant and being secretly horrified at how BIL and SIL ‘pandered’ to their 2 yr old, who wouldn’t sit at the table for a while family meal and refused anything but chicken dippers.

Of course I was blessed with a toddler who couldn’t sit still for 3 minutes and survived on sausages and beans until he was about 5 .

I thought I wouldn't be the kind of pushy parent that enforces extra study and buys in tutors.
That lasted until P2 when DS had a terrible parents evening report.
The teacher said she would "continue differentiating downwards as long as I'm able to", that's how bad it was.
Turned out DS had realised he was a bit behind, dealt with it by completely disengaging and learnt absolutely nothing for a whole term.
He now does 10 mins of decent effort every night (or he gets a time out) and sees a tutor once a week. He's reading and he's much happier for it.

Dummies are the first thing that I put in my maternity bag!

I chose to have an epidural for my 1st even before my first visit with the midwife.

I swore that I would take holidays with just DH at least twice a year. It's only when I had my first that I realised I didn't want not to spend time with my child and we only had family holidays ever since.

Cloth nappies .... funny didn't last a day even!

Standing up to soothe baby, they can be soothed whilst I sit down.... not!

Only home cooked food to wean .... yeah right bring on the jars and pouches!

We sent away for the cow and gate freebies to get the free cow thinking we would never use the milk - He was prem, not able to breastfeed and was on cow and gate top ups from birth.
He wasn't going to have a dummy- reflux meant he had one from early on.
I was going to use a sling everywhere - he hated the sling.
I bought a big carrycot attachment for the pushchair - he hated it, screamed constantly in it and we moved him to the pushchair at 3 months.
We would take him out all over the place and do lots of activities where he would be 'well behaved' and interested in everything - sn means that even as a teen that still isn't happening.

No swords or guns for my children, ever. So they used my knitting needles instead.

No swords or guns for my children, ever.
I hope you mean toys?