KYGTIGuy
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Looking back at the birth or first few months of your kids life. What is the one thing you didn't know when you had your first child that you wish you had?
Wife is due Jan 10th. Finding out tonight if it's Baby Wolfgang or Baby Josefine
We had to wait a month to get the all clear. At 20 weeks the baby was breached and they couldn't see the arms or 4 chambers of the heart. Every thing turned out tho
How the hell babies can bend like that is crazy
With my little girl turning 1 I shall share.
This year has been insane in so many ways but the one HUGE thing I wish I knew was more about allergies. They are amazingly more common now than they were years ago and I was one of those people who were like "WTF if you have a peanut allergy stay away from peanuts and don't be a baby" .. fast forward to having our first child...
She was allergic to milk, soy, peanuts, and egg (and probably other things too!). If you think about what you eat down to the tiniest of ingredients this pretty much sums up EVERYTHING. Wife was breastfeeding so anything she ate the baby got. Spent the first 4 months trying to figure out why our child was so unhappy, crying constantly, could not sit still EVER, impossible to get to sleep, screamed bloody murder instead of crying. Seriously never heard a "cry: until 5 months.. just death screams CONSTANTLY.. no silence... ever....
Finally got a blood test for allergies even though the doctor swore there was nothing wrong and allergies were impossible. Came back positive for all of the mentioned foods. Eliminated from Mom's diet and happy baby emerged. Simple as that but imagine spending 4 months not liking your baby AT ALL because all she did was scream and yell and scream and NOTHING and I mean NOTHING made her happy/quiet. Most stressful times ever, but now we are stronger people and more educated on the whole allergy thing.
I'm sure this story was too long and boring but it was life changing for my wife and I and as 2 scientists its insane how long it took us to figure it all out as it's all so tricky (milk protein stays in your system for >2 weeks!).
Good luck with your new addition, they are a wonderful thing Everyone has issues to deal with in the first year but you are so sleep deprived and trying to survive that you forget all of it within months time, I promise.
How hard it would really be. Then I could have prepared.. The first 6 months SUCK..
Then the later stage of learning... if i knew how expensive it would really end up being.. having 2... and how broke I am forever... well... nm.
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My wife wants two. But I can see us taking more trips, spending time together and enjoying life better with one. And we also have a dog we love to death. So technically that's like two right? :iono:
indeed.. people who say "more is easier" are either fucking with you, or just stupid.