We spent last Sunday with some 'first baby' couples. I know we've all been there. But, really......

[Bubble99]

This was at my MIL's with Mr Bubble's cousins and their babies.

One had a NASA style baby monitor and both couples arrived with travel cots with cat-covers.

One asked Mr Bubble where the cat was and he said that it had seen sense and scarpered. A 'cat-hunt' then ensued, even though this particular baby was in an autoclaved, temperature-controlled, cat-netted travel cot.

Mr Bubble buggered off to play with the big Bubble boys, leaving me to listen to puke-making cooing and discussions about Baby Mozart.

Puke.

Was I ever that bad?

Answer.

Probably.

[mozzybear]

Toddler net heheheh! You need to patent that! I swear mt cat tries to ebay my ds in the midst of the night!

[flightattendant]

Brill thread . Our cat needs a toddler net. DS has tried to strangle her with washing line, cut her whiskers and painted her blue (with gloss)
...that was expensive.
She on the other hand has never laid a claw on his delicate ickle baby skin.
I keep thinking we're gonna get reported to some charity and have her taken away.

[TheMoistWorldOfSeptimusQuench]

Catnets??? I honestly had never heard of such a thing before reading this. Are they really to stop cats smothering babies? Or is there some other reason?

We often used to find the cat curled up with DD in her cot when she was tiny. Used to half heartedly chuck her out, but she'd usually be back again...

[BigPantsRule]

Procedure for dealing with a dropped dummy before giving it back to baby.
1st baby: (if it's got one at all, dreadful yukky things) - you sterilize it.
2nd baby: (principles have gone to pot and you've given in for sake of sanity) - you rinse it under the tap.
3rd (or subsequent) baby: you blow on it.

[mozzybear]

PMSL at this, esp Cat Hammock!

Why does everyone when you are pregnant and a cat owner say "OOh you'll have to be careful" We bought a cat net out of guilt but gave to my mil (her cat is bonkers) when we realised there was no way in hell our mogz were going ANYWHERE near the small screaming creature.

I do admit to chucking cat out of cot (she's persistant) and I admit to steam sterlising each bottle and pouring in (cooled) bolied water for each feed. I completely misunderstood new rules on this. Feel stupid when I think about this now... what a numpty, a very tired numpty!

[Lovecat]

Just remembered as I was chucking out the last of dd's bottles this afternoon - when I was first bf, I expressed each breast til they were empty (took forever, damn handpump!)and took notes on how much was in each, just so's I'd know how much dd was taking in a feed from each individual breast... like she ever actually emptied a breast at any one feed and they'd always have exactly the same amount in them...

[CaptainUnderpants]

Great thread !

We have two cats and before DS1 arrived I set the pram up in the hallway so the cats could get used to it being around etc etc. Also put a cat net on the pram - yes I found one cat playing tramopolines on it who then got tied and fell asleep in the pram !!

I also had cat net for the cot , so when DS1 moved into cot from moses basket ( from the safe enviorment of our bedroom ) I put cat net on cot.

After two nights it was such a bloody nusiance taking on and off then I never bothered after that. He had more chance of being smothered by cat net not than a cat.

Anyway once DS was born the cats ran out of the room any time there was a noise .


I do remeber the temperature thing and how many blankets and oh so much more theat makes me cringe ....

[milkymill]

Smoggie, i have just had tears rolling down my cheeks in hysterics at your spreadsheet! Iam guilty of pretty much everything on here, am much more laid back with nsc though. I am still rather neurotic about temperature mind you.

[cathcart]

before we came out of hospital I gave my mum strict instructions to proceed immediately to boots to purchase a nursery thermometer. For the first week I checked it nearly every couple of hours. I can't believe I did that, as I am writing this I'm think wtf?!

[PippiLangstrump]

mummyTL you've made my evening!!

[LadyTophamHatt]

How did i miss this??

Those baby books always make me titter.

Ds1's was filled in religiously. Including a lock of his hair after his first cut, dates when hes 1st tooth came through (which actually I didn't know because I only discovered 2 teeth in his mouth when he yawn in woolies once, both were rightthrough so must have been there awhile. I recorded the dates for each tooth a week apart from that day!)

Ds2's book was filled in but only very basically. Weight, eye colour(aren't they all the same colour at birth though) etc.

Ds3...um I don't actually know if we even have one!

Ds4, well...you know!

[WideWebWitch]

ha ha mummytl

[MummyTL]

And if that's not bad enough, dh once took 6oz of water in his mouth and spat it onto a muslin cloth to get an idea of how much it would weigh. Thinking back, I'm not sure why he had to put it in his mouth first.

[MummyTL]

For a few weeks after ds1 was born we recorded the amount of milk offered, amount taken, and amount puked back (estimate) during each feed, and then we loaded it all into a spreadsheet. Took us a while to realise that the information was totally useless.

[nappyaddict]

i did have an insect net for ds though last summer. the cats never tried bouncing on it thoug.quite disappointed about that!

[serenity]

I used to go under the play gym with the DCs when they were babies - they'd 'play', I'd have a nap

[skidaddle]

smoggie - priceless - makes me feel oh so laid-back and smug

[PregnantGrrrl]

my friend is having her first, and i know i wasn't as full on as her. if i get shown one more pushchair catalogue i'll scream! And she's buying so much stuff, there'll be no room for the baby when it appears!

[WideWebWitch]

lol at smoggies spreadsheet and webcam, hahahaha

[PippiLangstrump]

My mum has a diary in which she recorded every single thing I (PFB) ever did since day one.
She lies to my brother (DC3) when he asks her what was his first word!

[shinypeople]

i was never OTT with my 1st. By the time we got to mumber 3, nothing really mattered!

I did take lots and lots of photos of 1 and 2 though. We have a handful of number 3

Poor chap!

[mummytosteven]

splutter at Blu and the sex in the toilet couple.

[Lovecat]

MIB - the all white thing probably (well, in my case anyway!) relates to reading the first chapter of a certain book, which tells you it's easier to buy all white stuff when they're tiny so it all can get thrown in the wash at 95 degrees, thereby killing any nasty bugs that may be lurking in the cotton....

Given that dd had incredible jaundice the white babygro just served to counterpoint it and in all her baby photos from 0-9 weeks she appears a fetching 'Jordan' shade of orange...

[belgo]

lol @ smoogie's spread sheet.