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Perfect Baby!

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mhvp · 02/01/2002 16:04

Does anyone ever find that other Mums always seem to pretend their babies have never been naughty. Slept through from birth. Never cry. Always eat everything in sight and never misbehavour.

I have started saying my sleeps through and makes me a cup of tea in the morning with toast!

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dm2 · 02/01/2002 16:35

Absolutely!!! I found that meeting other mums as 'support' just made me more depressed as I seemed to be the only one who's baby didn't come with full instructions. Mine sleeps through, makes me tea and toast and dresses himself .

Crunchie · 02/01/2002 16:39

Well mine sleeps through, makes me tea and toast, dresses herself and does the ironing! (she's a bit behind at 10 months really)

CAM · 02/01/2002 16:44

Mine sleeps through, makes me coffee and warm crissants, dresses herself and is going to drive herself to school from next Monday (not bad for 4 years 11 months!)

dm2 · 02/01/2002 19:55

Whoops, meant to say mine sleeps through TV programmes during the day but is disturbed by a whisper at night, won't give me time for a cup of tea and knocks the toast out of my hand, and un-dresses himself (well, pulls his socks off continually)
mhvp - wishing you a happy new year with your 'perfect for you' baby!

pamina · 02/01/2002 20:47

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bloss · 03/01/2002 11:21

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TigerMoth1 · 03/01/2002 12:37

My two were definitely imperfect prototypes - perhaps if we'd had more we'd have got a perfect model. Is this how big families come about?

Funny how the perfect baby theme can continue, though. One of my friends has a child 6 weeks older than mine. At the beginning, when my son was a newborn and hers was already plumping up nicely with breast feeding well established, both she and I saw her as the font of all wisdom. Being 6 weeks ahead counted for a lot. We got stuck in this role though, right up until our children started school. Another of my friends has a girl a few months older than my son. They are now both 7 years old. Since his birth every single remark I've made about my son's progress or lack of it is met with the comment, 'well girls are more advanced than boys' before she goes on to say anything else.

SueDonim · 03/01/2002 20:36

LOL, Tigermoth, at big families! It was the other way round here. Our first was soooo easy, just like a living doll, really. By the time we got to No 4, we had the child from hell to cope with and nothing we'd learnt from the other three made any difference! Nature's contraceptive, maybe???

robinw · 04/01/2002 08:16

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