Help! Do I tell him??

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My DD just laughed for the first time. She's almost 3 months old so this is very exciting for me and it was the cutest thing ever! So the thing is, DD's dad was downstairs watching tele and I was upstairs with her when she laughed.. AIBU to tell him DD just laughed for the first time when he weren't there to experience it himself?? 😩 I want to tell him because it's exciting but don't want him to be upset that he missed it..

You can't make sure you are both there for every first that your baby does.

Will he really be bothered? I can't imagine being upset because I missed the first time a child laughed!

Uh just tell him. My husband was around for first word but not first step. Don't recall him being too upset. And I certainly don't remember first laugh'

People are so precious these days... I don’t think he’ll lie on the floor and sob because he didn’t witness a baby laugh

I was working when DS took his first proper steps. Some things can’t be helped unless your both permanently attached to the child

The very first night I spent away from my DS he took his first steps. My sister then tried to pretend the steps he took when I went to collect him were his first. I didn't fall for it .... just be honest. It is something I laugh about now. I mean I will never let him forget but I laugh .... honest.

Just tell him.

Yeah tell him, and then tickle her or something so she laughs again. Problem solved

Pfb

Tell him.
Otherwise you won’t say & then he’ll see her laugh but won’t tell you because you missed it... & all of a sudden she’s 21

So are you planning on you both being with the baby all the time in case one of you misses a ‘first’? How will you manage that? Neither of you planning on working during her childhood?

So ridiculous

You’re going to have a very stressful time if you’re going to overthink everything so much. Just tell him. He can enjoy trying to make her laugh again surely?

It might not have been the first time she laughed- maybe you weren't there the first time ...

It might not have been the first time she laughed- maybe you weren't there the first time ...

Hahaha exactly!

Just tell him when you have time to soothe a pissed off baby because he will spend the next hour trying to make her do it again.....voice of experience... :o

I would love to have problems like that in my life

By the time they’re teenagers, let alone adults like mine, you’ll have no clue where you do anyone else was when that happened. And it’ll matter even less.

Just tell him!

Let me try that again:

By the time they’re teenagers, let alone adults like mine, you’ll have no clue where you were, never mind when it happened or if you were there. And it’ll matter even less.

I went out for 20 minutes and missed DD1's first steps. She walked between DH and my DM.

Flipping eBF that little traitor!

I don't mind. I saw so many other first things.

I would call him up or take her down and get her giggling again. Enjoy.

Gosh some of you are rude!
I just didn't want him to be a bit gutted that's all since she's so young and hasn't really done much yet and it's our first baby.
Well anyway I told him last night and he was just happy that she laughed in the first place, he wernt bothered that he missed it. He understands he's going to miss a lot since he's at work
full time