Just finished watching the first episode!
Isn’t the guidance that a newborn’s feet should be to the bottom of the cot so they can’t wiggle under the blankets and suffocate? I’m genuinely asking as that’s what I’ve read and been told but I was shocked to see Syler and Mo’s baby put right in the middle, thick blanket over him
surely even if you haven’t been directly informed by a midwife at any point during pregnancy classes, you’d do some research yourself around basics like that because you want to keep them safe? Fully happy to be told I’m wrong though and that the feet to foot guidance is out of date.
I thought the gay couple seemed well prepared, it’s easy to laugh at any soon to be parents saying they’re ready but all they really mean is they’re as prepared as they can be and have done all they can! I’m pretty sure everyone understands they can only be so ready for first time parenting lol. And the sneering about buying cute baby shoes is just nasty, many many new parents do the same as part of getting excited and ready.
I thought they came across loads better than the family with five kids tbh, the gay couple said they’d been seriously discussing and planning for three years, they clearly were emotionally in a place where they were excited to become parents and had a secure environment waiting for their babies, compared to the family of seven which just seemed like utter chaos, no time to enjoy each new baby before another arrives shortly after, that poor little girl when her parents got back from hospital running to her mum and being made to wait for a bloody photo to be taken
she was still so small yet it worried me what little was shown, didn’t seem like each child could get much one on one attention, mum hung up on the idea of a busy chaotic house regardless of what the reality of it might have been for her actual kids, and pulling along a consenting but clearly reluctant father with her. I had to laugh at him saying they were organised while they had little ones running out into the driveway, the smallest swinging off a stair gate at the top of the stairs (!), sat quite a way away from the little boy holding the newborn being unknowingly rough as her head flopped back. Just seemed like an unpleasant environment with a lot of noise and not much love, dad even looked distracted and bored reading a story to one of the kids.
Obviously it’s edited from a lot more footage and nobody is perfect but those were my initial thoughts, gonna watch the rest when they’re released. The two little boys Ezra and Elijah were an absolute joy, such empathetic sweet smart little kids, and you can see from their parents where they get it from, just a lovely family.