When a couple has a baby she becomes a mother and he becomes a father (officially speaking), and that is when they begin to exercise as such and learn, on the go, how does that raise and feed a baby. It is possible that before delivery they have been informed, have read and have received a lot of advice, but that does not mean that they immediately learn many more things when they are in garlic than for everything they have been told.
If you already have your baby this is likely to remind you what happened. If you are waiting for a baby, you may remember these words when you already have it with you: the 11 things first-time parents learn in the early days.
1. Your baby is not normal
Because they told you that what babies do is eat and sleep, eat and sleep, and that they do nothing more than that, but yours eats, writhes, throws a pedet, eats, poops, eats, sleeps, cries , eat and sleep. So, all often, without pauses. Come on, the process you carry out every time you wake up is much longer and more tired than feeding him and seeing how he closes his eyes. And not only that, you take it out on the street and in the stroller cry, when they told you that they slept like lilies, and you ride it in the car, where there is no baby who resists awake, and yours does not cry, screams a "Get me out of here!" That is perfectly understood.
2. Nothing happens as they told you it would happen
If they tell you that giving the tit is very sacrificed and it will surely go wrong, you are doing great. If they tell you that giving the tit is very easy, you will get huge cracks and it will hurt as if you had teeth. If they tell you that babies sleep fatally, yours will sleep so well that you will wonder if they breathe, and if they tell you that they sleep all night, yours will do exactly the opposite ... whatever it takes to make you feel that you have a son who has something wrong and that you, as a mother or father, you are useless.
3. Nobody agrees on anything
The books that do not take them in arms, the neighbor that yes. The baker that you let him cry, the pediatrician who doesn't. The nurse you vaccinate, the cashier of the super no. Your mother do not bathe him every day, your mother-in-law yes, by God. And so with everything ...
4. At nine o'clock at night you will realize that there is still everything to do
And maybe at ten. It will be dark, it will get dark, and you will see that nothing has changed since eight in the morning. It has been useless all the times that you have fed and changed it because you have to repeat it again and again (that if you could still do it five times in a row and then no more until the next day it is valid, but it is always a start over ). And it gives you the night and the house is there, waiting for you, that you have a crazy desire to get into bed and have not taken a shower, nor have you had dinner, nor are there probably clean dishes to put dinner on.
5. Babies love to stain clean diapers
One of many hobbies babies have. You change the diaper because they have been with it for a long time and you say "look I have waited in case you had poop, but as you do not do it, then I change it already", and after 2 or 3 minutes, her ass detects that she is a clean diaper and then she poops.
But this is only done if after the diaper you put the buttons on the body, you put on the pants and you put on the rest of the clothes. Once you say "you're ready", shit. If you change your diaper but you wait for him to poop without finishing dressing him he will not.
6. Dark circles are impossible to hide
Neither makeup nor anything. Everyone will know right away that you have had a baby recently, whether you are a mother or a father. There is no way to disguise sleep, or dark circles, or pale skin. Anyway there comes a time when you do not care much anymore, basically because you go out and go in zombie mode, walking without knowing very well where you are going and without looking at who you cross, so do not worry much ...
7. Every day you get to work with milk stains on your shoulders
Dads, especially dads. Because before you go you take him in her arms so that she does the last pee and the last poop before being alone with the baby, brushing her teeth and everything she knows she won't be able to do until you come back. Well, you take it and of course, milk spit for shoulder. Sometimes you realize and you change, and sometimes you don't. Over time stop caring, although when choosing clothes you should keep in mind that the darker the shirt or shirt, the bigger the stain will be.
8. Babies sleep better at day than at night
"I think my baby has a changed dream," recent parents say. Yes, changed with respect to yours, but normal in the case of the baby. Don't ask me why, but maybe it's for survival. At night the dangers lurk (at least in the jungle, where babies assume we live because they don't know if they are born in Spain or in the middle of Africa), so a baby who wakes up often has a caretaker who also wakes up often, and this is much safer for him than parents who sleep soundly all night: the lion comes and takes it without them noticing.
And if it is not for that, it will be because it is what they did in the belly, that at night they did not stop and during the day they were calmer because they were in motion and with more noise in general.
9. Everyone wants to advise you because they know more than you
This also happens, that they see that the baby is small and then they see you the face of pardillos and they advise you everywhere. Come on, they see you from afar, two or three streets, and they stop as if sniffing, they narrow their eyes and when they realize that the baby is tender they run like they miss the bus. With the bags and everything, with the shopping cart, with whatever they carry. They run like an exhale to get to where you are and tell you, between gasps, fixing their hair and removing the drops of sweat something as important as "you wrap it up too much," "this child goes hungry," "don't take it in your arms" or " you're kidding "or" give it something cold, it's teeth. "
10. The disconnection with the world is total
Little by little you realize that having a baby connects you with yourself, with your essence, with your nature, with your most mammalian, animal, human roots ... with your origins, but disconnects you from everything else. When you see your friends again, you will realize that you have no idea what pact the political parties have reached (you probably do not know who governs and you realize that there were other general elections a couple of weeks before), that You have not seen any of the series that explain, nor any of the movie films they recommend and that you no longer have just the subject of conversation in common, because they do not have babies.
At that time you stop staying with them because you see that you are at a different vital moment and try to get closer to other mothers and fathers, because of being able to talk about nights, tiredness, spots, tears, poops, etc. and not of that life so "absurd" that you had before when you found out what was happening in the world and talked with people.
11. To say "give them all by ass that I will do it my way"
You are right. When they have already learned a few things, first-time parents end up learning to tell themselves "Give them all for ass", because in the end they all make you dizzy, and from so much trying things the child is also dizzy lost and crying even more.
Well, they do it as they see better and as they see that the baby is doing better and holy Easter. This is the time when they pass from novice parents to parents. That is, the moment when they take away the "L" because you are already able to make your own decisions with conviction. The moment you realize that who best knows what he needs and what doesn't, is your baby.
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