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First time parents-to-be: don't you just love them?

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SoupDragon · 04/05/2006 10:55

Was talking to one the other day and he said "Oh yes, we're all prepared... we've got the nurserypainted."

My how I sniggered to myself. And remembered that I was just as niave* pre-DS1. :)

I can never spell this sdding word!

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CHICagoMUM · 04/05/2006 10:56

As they say "Ignorance is bliss" Grin .

shimmy21 · 04/05/2006 10:59

My pregnant friend told me 'Babies are very portable you know. We are not going to let our baby change our lives. We'll carry on exactly as before and bring the baby with us in its car seat.'

(Hmmm I thought. That stage lasts, what, 3 months maybe?)

Esmummy · 04/05/2006 11:00

Naive Soupy, its probably the one word i can spell because i spelt it wrong for so many years, its finally drummed in.
I was exactly the same with DD, thought we were so prepared are ready just because we'd brought everything and her vests and socks were washed and put away ready.

expatinscotland · 04/05/2006 11:01

The mum of one newborn - oh, my son is SO easy to travel with!

Just wait till he wakes up.

Wait till he's old enough to say, 'I want to go home' or 'I'm bored' and try to locomotor his way out.

alexsmum · 04/05/2006 11:07

just wait till you've taken him to a restaraunt aged 8 weeks(because he's so portable in his little car seat) and you have to divide your time between breastfeeding in the loo and eating your dinner at the speed of light while dh walks the baby up and down and then walking up and down while dh eats his dinner.and then cancelling the pudding order and getting the hell out.

(yes it did happen to us! on my birthday!)

morningpaper · 04/05/2006 11:10

Aexsmum Grin That sounds like every weekend!

oliveoil · 04/05/2006 11:11

I remember watching my friends doing the distraction / bribe song and dance routine we all do and thinking piously to myself 'my children will just have to do as I ask them first time and none of this nonsense'.

ROFL

Who has the biggest stash of bribes in her bag? ME.

Who sees aeroplanes (or whatever) on the roof of Tesco's? ME.

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SoupDragon · 04/05/2006 11:25

The wisest thing my mother-of-2 friend said to me before I had DS1 was "you will bribe your children with chocolate..."

It is lovely to see first-time-parents-to-be though. They're so keen and fresh, not like jaded been-there-done-that-got-the-stained-T-Shirt-parents.

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SoupDragon · 04/05/2006 11:25

Naive Naive Naive Naive Naive Looks wrong however you spell it :o

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alexsmum · 04/05/2006 11:29

there's always a cat on the roof of our shed ready to be spotted in case of meltdown! glad it's not just me!

Tatties · 04/05/2006 11:30

Alexsmum this happens to me too but why do I never see it happening to anyone else when I'm out?!

Harpsichordcarrier · 04/05/2006 11:36

heheheheh
how about his one
we don't need a pushchair - we don't have room in the hall.
we atr just going to carry him in a sling until he walks Shock
they lasted about two weeks before they realised you have loads of shit to carry too

LeahE · 04/05/2006 11:41

Actually, we still (15.5 months) very very very rarely take DS in his pushchair. I rather wish I'd been more first-parent-naive on that one and not sprung ££ on it, because as it turns out we do almost always have him in the sling, walking, or on the back of a bicycle.

welshmum · 04/05/2006 11:42

We have pink birds on the bathroom ceiling (to enable a suitable position for hair washing)

LeahE · 04/05/2006 11:42

P.S. I suspect that may have to change when a hypothetical #2 turns up, though.

Harpsichordcarrier · 04/05/2006 11:43

Leah
I am overcome with respect. I am obviously a lazy cow Grin

morningpaper · 04/05/2006 11:45

Welshmum what a fantastic idea

Donbean · 04/05/2006 12:03

Friends of ours who have just had no 1 told me that they have got an "off road" push chair so they can still go for walks in the Lake district with baby and out for the day as normal........i just smiled. Have a vision in my head of her pushing screaming baby up hillside with sweat dripping and anger in her face and him following behind with the nappy bag, bottles,change mat, bibs etc in a HUGE bag, prepared for the whole day out! Grin

Oh and he "really values his own company, quiet time and relaxing in the garden with the birds singing and sun shining".......Tomorrow tomorrow i love ya tomorrow youre only a day awaaaaaayyyyy!!!Grin yes i think that they are on the set of Annie the musical......

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beansprout · 04/05/2006 12:09

They are also the ones in the doctor's surgery waiting for their ante-natal appointments and giving you looks as you do whatever it takes to get through the hour's wait Grin

beansprout · 04/05/2006 12:11

Oh the horror of a toddler in a beige and white decorated house!! Good luck with that!

welshmum · 04/05/2006 12:25

'My children are only having wooden toys'
Ha

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SoupDragon · 04/05/2006 12:27

"doesn't want primary colours in her house" Snort!!

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MrsBadger · 04/05/2006 12:30

(we use this word a lot at work, and it needs the two dots on the i to look right: naïve)

PinkKerPlink · 04/05/2006 12:32

my cousin's wife 'I just want to have this baby now so I can get back to normal'

oh how I laughed:o