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So a boy after three girls what do we need to know ?

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MillyMollyMoo · 02/02/2010 18:23

Am slightly nervous :-)

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Batteryhuman · 02/02/2010 18:29

Tuck the willy down when you change his nappy or all the pee comes out the top!

Rhian82 · 02/02/2010 18:40

Oh yes, penis down, penis down, was our mantra in the early days!

mommymeggie · 02/02/2010 18:41

I have a newborn baby boy and my daughter is 19 months old. My mum gave me great advice.....take a baby wipe and fold it then place it on the willy so he doesn't wizz on you. It works!

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LittlePushka · 02/02/2010 18:42

...second that battery human, ..once you got that covered milly, the rest is a breeze! Enjoy the little fella!

MaggieTaSeFuar · 02/02/2010 18:42

that only happened to me once!! being whizzed on!

missdduke · 03/02/2010 16:20

put every single thing in your house that is breakable away until he is 10 and prepare for lots of cuddles!

Jamieandhismagictorch · 03/02/2010 18:20

I have two DSs and noting much has ever got broken.

He will have an erection at an alarmingly young age, and later will pull his willy in a very painful-looking way. Do not worry.

Other than that - make no assumptions. My two are very different to each other gender is only one factor .......

baby1onway · 04/02/2010 13:13

ha ha jamieandhismagictorch!! i have a 4month old son and he's always getting an erection!first i was a bit concerned but turns out his erection comes just before he has the biggest wee!!so at least i can be prepared :D i love having a boy, hes cuddly, looks really boyish and just lovely! enjoy him :D

flaime · 05/02/2010 19:31

When he gets older his favourite colour will be pink and he'll love tiaras, handbags, dresses and anything sparkly - until he goes to school.

Oh yes, and you really do get loads of cuddles it's fab!

thisisyesterday · 05/02/2010 19:34

nothing. a baby is a baby!

btw i have 3 boys and nothing broken (yet)

PotPourri · 05/02/2010 19:39

Ha ha flaime. My DS is like that - he has access to really girly things with his big sisters.

Often they are later in potty training, and talking (not always of course), but they generally are really cuddly. And they usually walk with a swagger - very cute!

megonthemoon · 05/02/2010 19:44

i'm hearing 'tick tick tick' in my head as i read - everything said about wees and willies is right! a few more from me:

  • boys love their mummies and like nothing better than a cuddle and kiss. it's very sweet.
  • let him play with the girls' toys. don't go all trains and planes on him - he'll naturally gravitate towards those anyway so please shove a doll or tea set or princess outfit his way occasionally too just to give him experience of something else. my ds loves taking 'baby archie' for a walk, although baby archie does get bounced off walls and doors perhaps more than he would if a little girl was doing the same
  • they don't sit still - bundles and bundles of energy which needs serious burning off
  • don't believe the nonsense about them being slower to develop verbally/emotionally but better physically. IME, it's not necessarily true - DS very slow to crawl and walk but super quick to talk and emotionally/socially far more sensitive than most kids his age (22mo).
shonaspurtle · 05/02/2010 19:48

yy Muslin over the willy when you take his nappy off to stop him weeing in your face.

My friend's boy managed to wee in his own mouth .

That's the only thing I can think of really. I'm sure everything else is pretty much the same.

psychomum5 · 05/02/2010 20:17

I used to use a used breast pad to cover DS1s willy when changing him, the heaviness kept the willy down even with the force of weeing (and there was even occasionally enough breast pad left not saturated with milk, to absorb the wee.

I did take 6 nappy changes to work it out tho......after being so used to changing girls, (I also had my first boy after 3 girls) I never even expected the boys bits. He literally got me soaked on every nappy change in the first day!

oh, and he had erections from day dot too.

that said, I DS2 never wee'd on me, and he had fewer than 5 erections in all his times in nappies, that I saw at least.

otherwise, boy babies are much like girls, until they start to move, and then both (of mine) were ball obsessed.........DS1 still is, the real kind and the flesh kind.

I do find them more physical.....they need daily excersise. my girls were happy to play babies and tea sets and colour in all day. My boys by contrast go around bashing and kicking and climbing and shouting and wrestling..................yada yada yada.....

they are fabulous tho, I would not be without them. and they are very loving to their old mum

GavinBl · 06/02/2010 08:46

get ready for a load of cars, jets, guns, tanks, robots, etc - to join the dolls. We have two girls and a boy in the middle - and he's a nice generally well-behaved boy, who hasn't been brought up in a macho household, but even so, there's a different 'energy' to alot of boys - more persistent, more intense. Don't get me wrong, its fine - but different. I'm not exactly an alpha male, but the father-son thing is nice and has its own special dynamic, I reckon.

One surrounded by girls is OK!

Highlander · 06/02/2010 12:38

check the willy is DOWN in nappies. Otherwaise they pee up and through the waistband (not good in the middle of the night!)

encourage them to play with their willy in the bath - helps to loosen the foreskin. DON'T retract the foreskin; it naturally loosens by the age of about 4.

Don't even think about potty training before the age of 3. Night wetness is normal until age 7.

colie · 06/02/2010 13:19

Millymollymo- same here. if the sonographer is correct. Still dubious about the result and will believe it when I see it.

Haven't told anyone in rl yet. Just dh because he was at the scan!

Was anxious if it would all be the same if this one turned out to be a boy and everyone has assured me baby boys and baby girls are just the same but with different wee bits.

Must be true I suppose since my 3 girls are all so different, in personality and I am sure yours are too.

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