1. That special new baby smell, where does it come from?
2. How impossibly soft and downy their heads are - you could sit all day with them cuddled into your neck floating in that new mum soup of hormones. Your baby is irresistible!
3. How much they sleep - yet ironically, how little they sleep when you need to sleep!
4. How perfect their tiny feet and hands are. How could they have grown inside of you? It is an everyday miracle.
5. How primed for survival they are - insistent in their demands and violent in their little tempers - if the tummy is empty they need food now!
6. How quiet it is in the middle of the night - the whole world asleep with your little baby looking up at you.
7. The violence of their gut as they gulp down sustenance and push it out either end in violent explosions!
8. The way they look at you and sniff at you, putting the world together, perceiving patterns and adding knowledge every day. Our baby girl now scrunches her little head down when she hears Little Bro running towards her shouting - “Kiss baby!”
9. How you can’t be apart from them - without a strange uncontrollable panic squeezing your heart!
10. How sleep deprivation affects short term memory - how many times today did I walk into the kitchen and then think, what am I in here for?
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November 1st, 2007 at 9:09 pm
10 things about living with a new baby…
A mum lists 10 things she has just remembered about babies now she has bought her little girl home….
November 1st, 2007 at 11:20 pm
You should add that if they smell like poop — they probably did. LOL
Just had this happen this morning. The hubby and I argued whether our son and did and low and behold, he had left us a nice package.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Our little one is breastfed so her poos have that particular citrus/cut grass smell, not like real poos yet! I always find it a big shock when they start solids!
November 4th, 2007 at 7:30 am
Breastfed poo is certainly a pleasant smell, especially in retrospect! I once repeatedly checked my very young DS’s clean nappy because I could smell something malodourous… eventually realising that it was the (very) bad breath of the visitor who was cuddling him!!!
BFP’s consistency and (more relevantly) sneaky ability to escape from the nappy are less pleasant!
So is a third baby like your description of third pregnancy- you are well briefed and know what’s coming? Or does the mix of two older siblings and a new baby throw in a few curved balls?
November 4th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
What a great post! Tis wonderful to take the time to truly enjoy that new baby time.
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November 4th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Vtg - the curve balls come along, but none so far from the new baby! For example, the baby sleeps well so the exhaustion is actually coming from the 4 year old who has just discovered the power of a “scary dream”! At least the new baby gives me the excuse for the tiredness - if not actually the tiredness!