ok so what else do we need to know? co sleeping in first few days? We have a bassinet in our room and crib in his nursery..sometimes I feel like I will want him right there with me and other times it scares the heck out of me.. my husband or I may squish him!! BUT our bassinet is not reachable by arm so I guess we will have to get up everytime he needed to be fed, changed, etc?
Yep there is not other way , you do not want to squish your precious little baby.
It has happened in my extended family. A healthy baby died under a heavy sleeper mom due to her and her family's jahalat.
awww come on guys. How can you squish your baby unless you are a 300 pound drunken obese person. I refused to sleep away from our baby and she slept with us for first few months. Once the new baby smell is gone, its gone - and i wanted to feel and smell her all I could. Dont deny yourself new parents. If scared, get a kind size bed so you have more room
LOL I know..and I cant believe I was reading all of that while having my lunch at work... i had to put it away to finish reading the thread :D
ok so what else do we need to know? co sleeping in first few days? We have a bassinet in our room and crib in his nursery..sometimes I feel like I will want him right there with me and other times it scares the heck out of me.. my husband or I may squish him!! BUT our bassinet is not reachable by arm so I guess we will have to get up everytime he needed to be fed, changed, etc?
I was scared to have her in our bed when she was an infant,that we might squish her.
Now I am scared to have her in my bed because I fear she might fall down,from the foot end of the bed.
The safest bet is to keep him in his bassinet/crib from day 1.My daughter has always slept in her crib and it was not anything extra exhausting in the middle of the night to walk a few steps to her crib.I mean,I am already up,so what difference does that make...:(
awww come on guys. How can you squish your baby unless you are a 300 pound drunken obese person. I refused to sleep away from our baby and she slept with us for first few months. Once the new baby smell is gone, its gone - and i wanted to feel and smell her all I could. Dont deny yourself new parents. If scared, get a kind size bed so you have more room
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I am not 300 pounds and neither is my husband...:p...but we still preferred it that she slept in her crib.Maybe a king sized bed would have helped,but we dont have such a big room to put that in there...
Once again,its all what the parents think is right for the baby...no hard and fast rule.
awww come on guys. How can you squish your baby unless you are a 300 pound drunken obese person. I refused to sleep away from our baby and she slept with us for first few months. Once the new baby smell is gone, its gone - and i wanted to feel and smell her all I could. Dont deny yourself new parents. If scared, get a kind size bed so you have more room
Yep that mama was fat and heavy sleeper , a train engine could not wake her up if she was sleeping.
In US most pediatricians do not recommend co-sleeping with baby though.
Some have no problem with it if mother is not fat or heavy sleeper.
I guess time will tell.. both of us are not in favor of co sleeping.. I am a light sleeper but my husband isnt and he moves a lot during his sleep so I will never take that risk.. if it's just me in the bed, it would be different but then I know I will not be able to close my eyes.. I will be too worried about it!
I cant wait to smell my baby.. the other day I opened the first pack of diapers and I swear they smelled like baby and they were supposed to be unscented.. I must have been just hallucinating!!!
wait a minute.. dont you have to put the diaper in a bag before putting it in diaper genie? I thought it was just a trash can with a cover.. no???
I have never seen poopy diapers going in a trash without being tied in a plastic bag or something like that!!we are collecting plastic bags for that :D
go to the dollar store, and get a pack of a hundred plastic scented tie bags for diaper disposing. throw diaper in there and then in the trash....
ps i have no problems with diaper genie in my kids bathroom and we also have no windows just ventilation......just make sure to empty it out regularly ....we empty it 2 times a week.
I guess time will tell.. both of us are not in favor of co sleeping.. I am a light sleeper but my husband isnt and he moves a lot during his sleep so I will never take that risk.. if it's just me in the bed, it would be different but then I know I will not be able to close my eyes.. I will be too worried about it!
I cant wait to smell my baby.. the other day I opened the first pack of diapers and I swear they smelled like baby and they were supposed to be unscented.. I must have been just hallucinating!!!
oh new diapers have a nice smell.I think I read once that Pampers has a distinct baby fresh kinda scent,but I think almost all diapers do. So no you were not hallucinating...not yet...:p
hahahaah chipsy.. I cant tell you how much I love those newborn diapers.. the best purchase I ever made :D
Afro.. oh I had no idea dollarstore would carry those.. I saw them at babies R us and they were like pack of 50 for 4-5 bucks.. didnt feel like spending that money on it!! I will definitely check out the dollar store!
I would strongly suggest against scented bags. They make poop smell even more nauseating. I suggest deodorizing bags or just throw some baking soda in ever time to tie a diaper in a shopping bag.
just take the diaper bag out every day. besides, the baby's poop doesnt smell much that early on. plus you might get lucky and have a baby that only poops once in ten days (its normal).
This is not advice as such...but during my pregnancies I started writing letters to my unbon baby.How I felt when I found out I was expecting...and how excited I was to 'meet' him/her.What my hopes and aspirations were for him/her...and expectations.I told how much they were loved already and soo many people were looking forward to seeing them.
Finally...I described my emotions when I first laid eyes on them..and how I would always protect them and be there for them.Oh...you know,all the mushy mummy stuff.The two letters turned out to be novellas,I had so much to say. and I intend to give them when they get married .Just me....
Just never refuse any help...esp with offers of food and laundry :)
gosh we just cant move away from the diaper conversation.. I cant wait to share my experience since it is sooo different across the board!!
CO.. oh yeah, been there done that.. I have written several letters to my cuppycake, initially I was writing a letter every week but since I found out about it being the boy, I felt like probably he wont care much about the letters from mommy so I have written just a few but yep thats my favorite thing to do as wel.. I talk to him too :D
only if you successfully breastfeed… formula poo does tend to smell but nowhere near the eye-watering levels of solid-food-poo.
the diaper genie we have is the elite II one… maybe they’ve improved the mechanism now or something because that thing does not smell. you have to wrap up the diapers though- don’t just dump them in there unwrapped. by wrap i mean fold them up so the poo or pee is contained and it makes the package nice and small and easy to dispose of even when you’re out and about.
we had this and it was not a problem at all- its designed to be an on-bed co-sleeper and it was a lifesaver for us, to be honest. after my C, i just didn’t have the energy to do more than rollover, grab him and feed him. http://www.amazon.com/First-Years-Secure-Sleeper-Colors/dp/B00012CHFI
also, here’s something very important- both you and your husband CANNOT be zombies at the same time. you will have to work in shifts. what worked best for us was hubby sleeping separately since he still had to continue going to work during the day while i was on mat leave. he sleeps in the nursery, i sleep with the baby in our bed. this way, i do nights, he does early mornings, goes to work and then comes home and takes over for a few hours so i can get some sleep. otherwise, both of us would be up together every two hours when he was a newborn and we’d both be exhausted by the time morning rolled around.
Infant poop doesn't smell as bad as toddler poop. My friend has a diaper genie kinda thing in her bathroom. SHe has candles, plug ins, keeps the place so darn clean and shiny, yet when you enter you smell the stuff.
do not buy more then 2 0-3 months outfits or alot of 3-6 for your baby.. i received soooooooo many outfits for my son that were size 0-6 he didnt even get a chance to wear most of them.
buy a good stroller the 1st time around .. my husband and i went shopping and just picked out a stroller without much thought it was cute but it had none of the qualites we needed in a stroller.. and ended up buying another one a few months later.
dont feel guilty about taking a nap during the day.
lol Jhanjriya.. too late for that one.. I have a closet full of newborn and 0-3 months for baby!! I will just change him three times a day to make sure he gets to wear all of them.. I couldnt resist buying clothes for him!
We got a travel system Chicco Keyfit 30 and I am not a big fan of stroller only because it's bulky otherwise it's pretty good!Which one did you get?
Nikki..thats what I have heard but I am still surprised how I have never smelled any poopy diapers at my friends place who has two toddlers! and no she doesnt use scented trash bags or candles or anything like that!
LOL I know..and I cant believe I was reading all of that while having my lunch at work... i had to put it away to finish reading the thread :D
ok so what else do we need to know? co sleeping in first few days? We have a bassinet in our room and crib in his nursery..sometimes I feel like I will want him right there with me and other times it scares the heck out of me.. my husband or I may squish him!! BUT our bassinet is not reachable by arm so I guess we will have to get up everytime he needed to be fed, changed, etc?
:D trust me you'-ll be wanting to co'-sleep for more then a few days! ...
Its just easier and no you wont squish the baby ... you know why? ... cuz you wont be sleeping :D ... haha jk jk ... you'-ll likely become (if you arnt already) a light sleeper like most new moms ... also give it a good foot to foot n a half tween you n baby.
This is what I'-ve done over the last 4 wks ...
1: make a baby station next to bed with the essentials '- changing mat, diapers, warm wipes, milk (in case baby refuses to latch on), garbage bag to collect the diapers, extra set of burp cloth and blankie, water for myself, cell phone (in case u wanna do middle of night emailing , txting friends or your hubs to wake up n get in there to help u or just to take pics when the baby looks just tooo cute!), tylenol/multivitamins (other meds you may be taking ).
2: I had my bed moved such that one side of it is against the wall. So the baby goes towards that end with me on the open side .... if you cant do that , just make sure you come up with a setup that prevents the baby from accidentally rolling over/off the bed. I know I know babies that little are not supposed to be able roll around on their own theoretically ... but I tell you mine does ... has been since week2 and scaring the crap out of me.
3: banished hubby to couch ... so the whole big bed is for me n baby only ... less chance to squish baby AND that way baba can get some sleep and be functional at work in the morning .
honestly, with this setup I haven't had to actually get out of bed (except when I need to use the bathroom) at night... really nice for those who maybe post surgery.
I don't hAve a diaper gEnie ... don't need one ... a walk to the garbage collection outside is easy and a welcome way to stretch my legs ,
get some sun and fresh air ... a nice quick break fom a babycentric world (dont underestimate the importance of that!)