They aren't contractions, they're 'birthing waves'. Birth Story according to a Dad.

[hackneybird]

Here is the link

It's actually a craft blog I read regularly, but the owner recently gave birth and the father has written an amazing account.

For those of you that are inclined to alternative teaching methods, you may also find the child's Montessori room interesting, or be totally fascinated/laugh your head off at her intended parenting philosophy, which includes 'diaper free infant hygiene'. Yes, they are American.

Oh to be a fly on THAT wall when he starts crawling and she finally cracks the earth mother facade and wails "AARGH! Just shut the fuck up and stay in your bed!"

....with Perfect Dad behind her reminding her of her chakras and how she should breathe in light and positivity, natch. heehee!

I reckon the day she cracks she'll head to Toys R Us and max out the credit cards

I find this fascinating yet terrifying.

Though I didn't have the pram in the house before the birth for superstitious reasons so I'm a bit of a loon too...

Just all that planning for a baby that isn't yet born?

Peace.

Oh I don't even know where to start with all of this hippy rubbish. Good Luck to them all.

What parallel universe are they living in ?

Nuts just nuts

I just don't think I have the words

Oh gosh you realise they will notice an upsurge in traffic from their blog and will link it to here?

Be nice ladies.

Though we are not inclined to fear crime, the proximity of the gunfire really frightened us. I reached for my phone on my nightstand and called 911, going under the covers to mask the light of the phone?s LED from anyone outside.

hahahaaaaa

hahaha DWP, I must have missed that bit

Bless them.

DWP, I liked this bit: The walls of the room aren't gray - they're a very, very subtle sage green. So subtle that anyone with normal vision would call the color cream.

Obviously you need super vision to see that room in its full magnolia glory.

Its a lovely room. In fact would happily have it for me. For a child.... give it til it can stand at the most.

ewwwwwwwwww.

framed pics at child height - he'll pull them off the wall and smash them - hazard

mirrors - smash hazard

teeny russian dolls - choking hazard

he's going to piss all over that lovely floor by, ooh, a week old.

In the PFB Olympics, they've got the gold medal. 'Yes, merely providing the appropriate toys and space, our baby will sleep all night, never scream for attention or intrude in our lives.'

All that time researching colours, shopping.......... it's the last time they'll have the head space to do it

As much as I snured I read a bit of their blog and they seem lovely.

The woman need mumsnet in her life

I like it - it reminds me of all the whimiscal ideas I had pre-children. DS1 has refused to conform bless him, and whilst DS2 was showing signs of being the next Dalai Lama he has recently at nearly 10 months started behaving like a total manic like DS1.

Part of me really hopes that they get a maniac too, but that's because I'm mean.

Oh, and all the pictures in DS1's room are 8 foot up because at 22 months he starting making piles of toys, climbing up them and having all the pictures down. That's fairly standard no? Would any child appreciate the artwork as opposed to tearing it down and eating it?

Ah, but when the little bugger delight starts behaving like that, the parents will merely breathe "Peeeeaaace" and order will be magically restored.

What? That's what it is like in my house.

Honest.

Boak!

Men like this are actually eunuchs.

They.named.their.son.FINNIAN.

Are there really people out there like this?

Imagine being married to a 'man' like this, or even shagging one.

Eeewww.

Actually to be fair a completely babyproof room with a little mattress for DS to sleep on would suit us perfectly - he currently sleeps in a sidecar cot (so can't leave him to get on with it in case he falls off the bed) and does not have any concept of bedtime, if I take him upstairs no matter how tired he was he immediately perks up! So it would be useful to have somewhere he could play until he went to sleep by himself or came up to ask for milk (which does happen eventually, it's just we have nowhere truly babyproof to let him roam ) - if I let him play downstairs until he fell asleep I'd be exhausted, so the poor thing gets shunted between his bouncer and reclining chair and the floor in the hope he'll exhaust himself eventually it's just too stimulating for him downstairs with the TV on and the cat to chase.

I'm with you expat. I couldn't bear anyone who was so interested in my cervix and being supported. He makes me think of the Joy of Sex man but even less sexy and joyful.

He'd be one of those who had to 'make love' and just couldn't let himself just give you a right seeing-to every now and again.

Oh wow. How I would love to give DD (25 months) 15 minutes of 'unrestrained exploration' in that room.

I just hope they've hidden the crayons. (montessori allows crayons, right? In tasteful colours only, natch...)

my 7-month-old son could easily wreck that room.

never in the world will there be a bigger pfb than little Finn with the montessori mummy mommy

Awww, it made me feel really sad: all that idealism, I wonder if reality has already hit them?

With PFB DD I had some of those ideals, but once another kid arrives it's so hard to do anything other than get through the day.

Lovely room, just depends what kind of child you have: DD would respect it (and put the Barbies and My Little Ponys on the activity shelves), DS would wreck it.