Things you never knew about newborns until you had one

[SmallScrewCap]

I enjoyed this thread about pregnancy so much, and I'm missing the craic now that I've actually popped with number 2. I reckon there's enough mileage in newborn mysteries to generate another one. I'm also surprised that, even though I've done it before, I'd forgotten so many of the oddities of those first few weeks.

So...

I didn't realise that colostrum sick would be mustard yellow.

I didn't realise that, for AT LEAST a month post-natally, my clothing would always be moist in at least 3 different places at a time (either of my own or of the baby's doing).

That the first night I was able to go to bed without large pants and a massive pad under my pyjamas, I would be so relieved and overjoyed that I would report the fact to DH with almost as much joy as when the test was positive 10 (11?) months previously.

That the cute little baby puckering-up face, which looks like an invitation to move in close for a kiss, actually heralds a belching projectile vomit

That all my figure-flattering, dark-coloured maternity/post-natal wear would be streaked in baby smears of white, cream and yellow, forcing an eBay visit to buy a host of beige elasticated garments.

[cheeseycharlie]

...and

• they are so incredibly noisy when they sleep, I had to kick DD out within her first week! Nursery v close by the bedroom though, so not a worry

[BornToFolk]

That they'll be toddlers in the blink of an eye.

That when they've had a big feed, they look like a little drunkard, all dribbly and burpy and contented.

That they can produce poo in any colour of the rainbow and most of it is normal but you will become obsessed with its colour and consistency.

Cheesycharlie, I liked the smell of breastfed poo too, it was really sweet. Formula fed poo looks like butterscotch Angel Delight and smells like bread dough.

[LondonNinja]

Fab thread!

Echo all the comments re snuffles etc. My DD sounds like a rooster when feeding.

[Fufulina]

That you will love them more than you ever knew possible or could imagine. Everyone says it but I really didn't expect to be so knocked sideways by how much I loved her.

That they get the cutest sucky blister on their top lip from feeding.

That when they're asleep there is nothing anyone can do to wake them.

[Pinkjenny]

That every time you even remotely complain comment on a less than desirable trait in your baby, i.e. impatience, your own mother or MIL will say, "Oh, I wonder where she gets that from?"

[roslily]

"That when they're asleep there is nothing anyone can do to wake them."

haha ha ha haha_ all I have to do is move my pinky and my ds is wide eyed and awake!

My ds snuffles, squeaks, cries in his sleep!

That they can do the loudest burps ever!

[Rosebud05]

Both mine used to pull back in a slow, stretching arc after a feed, and look completely sozzled.

[heverhoney1]

Smallscrewcap- That description of baby crying themselves to sleep may be the funniest thing I have EVER heard, soooo true, my 6 month old does it regularly