3 things I wish id known before baby...

[Susan1981]

Im a mum of 11 week old ds twins and though not sure Ive posted under the right topic due to a large glass of wine postpartum fog was thinking life can be a little too serious now and need a bit of fun. Mumsnet/google/friends with large glasses of wine good advice help. Id love and laugh to hear what people have to say and Im sure Ill agree with it all. Ill start by saying this:

3 things I wish id known before baby....

1. The hospital is the easiest bit- if Id known this I would never have nearly discharged myself or knocked out a midwife (slight exaggeration there) I would have enjoyed meals on wheels and slopping in my pjs all day chatting and actually having to WAKE UP sleepy babies for feeds.

1. I would spend entire days trying to shush a baby to sleep until they got hungry then I would start all over again.

1. The first smile is nice, but the first time my baby squeals in delight (yesterday) at something IVE DONE (blowing raspberries) would make my entire year and be newsworthy in my eyes of everyone.

Please please post on this thread Id love to hear what you have to say!

1. That breastfeeding doesn't just entail sticking your boob in baby's mouth for 5 minutes every 3 hours (I seriously thought this was what happened - pre-MN! ).

1. That leaving the house would take hours (still takes ages when they're school age!).

1. That I would be capable of wanting baby to bugger off and give me some peace, whilst simultaneously not wanting the baby to bugger off and give me some peace .

lol at no 3 actually lol at all 3. Im adding a no 4. Wish id known that Ehow wouldnt actually know how to cross a word out on mumsnet and I wouldnt end up posting all the time...

That 6 years after having number one, I'd be currently pregnant with number 3!!!! For someone who didn't want kids, amazing how they change your outlook completely, utterly, unbelievably.
Can't think of anything else, too caught up in that fuzzy just-found-out-I'm-pregnant haze :)

1. all babies really need is to feel safe and loved. The rest will come later.

2)if your baby doesn't smile first/ use a fork first/ say "Mama" first, it doesn't mean they've got a problem.

3. don't dress them for fun. Babygrows fit better, are easier to replace and make them stay babies for longer.

1.They can light up your day with a little smile and they can wreck your head with a massive tantrum!

1. I would be dying for a romantic kid free night away with DH and then spend the whole evening talking about them and wondering how they are :)

3They grow up way too fast:(

Congratulations Mwah!

thanku thanku thanku, just had to tell someone (even if that someone is a stranger!)
ooh and I just thought of number 2...
The competition between mums is utterly rediculous! I had NO idea...

That becoming a parent is like joining a club you didn't know existed.

That your first baby's first year seems to last forever and your second baby is sitting up with a rice cake in her hand before you know it.

That you get what you pay for with pushchairs.

That you can never have too much Vanish.

Congratulations Mwha! The lovely folk of MN were the first people to know I was expecting DC2, after DH.

Congats Mwha....exciting times:)

That is SO true about Vanish!

O mwha congratulations! Keep us updated all the way! xx

Yy to joining the secret parent's club.

Mine are that breastfeeding is hard and a real achievement, and that I can survive a really long time sleeping in two hour stretches (even if i feel like I'm going to die from it).

1. That all problems are temporary even when it feels like forever and ever
2. That I would definitely love my baby
3. That my baby would dish out hugs aplenty even when at 14 months he never did/had yet

Never get too smug or too despondent. Everything is just a phase.
No one has ever written a book and me and my baby(ies).
Even the fussiest of eaters will eat a frozen Frube.

1. That instinct is an amazing thing.
2. That you can get by without spending pretty much any extra money at all.
3. That I had no idea how competitive family and strangers can be

1. Breastfeeding is not always the most natural thing in the world - it actually is bloody hard work
2. If you have a feeling your baby is in pain - then they are - follow your instinct
3. Simple pleasures are the the pleasures that make your heart swell - that first smile of the morning, the giggle from a tickled armpit

• The Earth will not stop if you don't bf your baby
• Your fabulous, cute, smiley, clean baby will become a grubby, grumpy three year old full of back chat.

1. The breastfeeding. Oh yes, how naive of me to think you could just stick a nipple in a baby's mouth and go with it.
2. That people you haven't spoken to for years will catch your baby news on FB and congratulate you, even if you didn't bother doing it for them
3. That poo can fly, vomit can hide and pee can be misted around the room when accompanied by a big fart whilst lying down.

• it actually doesn't end with labour - that's the start - you get an actual tiny person.

• they get tired, and don't just magically know how to get to sleep.

• you think the way you love you DH can't be matched - but you're wrong.

That the little bastards are born nocturnal. Nobody told me that.

That you Will never be able to forget them/stop worrying about them even if they are right beside you and in your arms :o
That you really do love them more than anything you have ever felt in your life but still want to kill them on a fairly regular basis!!

Think I was damn lucky with the breastfeeding - I literally did just stuff nipple in baby's mouth .

1 that they grow up
2 that before they grow up they become teenagers
3 that they appear to have homing instincts and you cannot get rid of them no matter how hard you try, either before they grow up, or afterwards.

That she would keep me awake for three hours when I have to go to work in the morning,