The first ATG baby

[wazza]

Haha thats the worrying thing about I daughter I imagine, when they start bringing fellers around. Hopefully we'll have a daughter, to which I'll look forward to that problem arriving. The stern dad look.

 

[chrisbd]

You're wise to wait a while but if he's always hungry I'd suggest he's a good candidate for heavier milk. Your health visitor should be able to advise.

Regards,
Chris

 

[wazza]

Thats the thing, she told us not too but the sister in law says its a good idea and she had three.

 

[chrisbd]

Odd to be advised against richer milk. Frankly, from experience I'd agree he needs it.

Regards,
Chris

 

[halvor]

Ours did biggies in her diaper nearly EVERY HOUR for a few weeks. Never mind sleep, trust me, that was tiring! It turned out that she was reacting to her mother's dairy and/or egg intake. We got a prescription for a special hydrolysed protein supplement, which I am told one can live fully on until ten to twelve years of age. It was a life saver, for all of us, and has also been at times more recently, whenever she is ill etc and won't eat, we have managed to keep nutritional value and energy intake up. Today, nearly 2.5 years old, she can eat anything, but that first year of making our own baby food and indeed the general family food, all without dairy, egg, tomato and citrus, taught me more about cooking. Try to whip up a decent sauce without any of those ingredients and you quickly find your options severely limited.

 

[wazza]

Every hour, sounds exhausting indeed. With a lot of acquired skills, with regards to cooking after that, silver lining and all that.
My wifes friend had a simular start with her baby, but had to be put on a lactose free diet, sorted her out right away. A year on and shes happily eating all sorts of food now.

 

[RSSO]

Congratulations @wazza , and don't worry first one doesn't hurt much, bat if you get another one in short period , that will be more than interesting
Regarding feeding I have two boys 2+ years and 4 month and had some similar problems , if you want send PM I can share my experiance.

 

[wazza]

I bet it will make things much mpre interesting, introducing another baby. My sister has a 1 1/2 year old and is a couple months pregnant.

Thank you for the kind words and offering the pm, inbound mesage.

 

[Godfather]

Wazza, a belated congratulations and welcome to the wonderful worlds (yes plural) of parenthood.

 

[SeanC]

Congratulations. Based on personal experience the every second day shave may be a necessary strategy for the next few weeks.

 

[Chris]

The two best pieces of advice I was ever offered were these:

1. Everyone will have advice, smile and agree with all of it, then discount the bits you don't think are right.
2. Trust your parental instinct. When you don't know what to do, do what feels right and it will be. When the time comes that you're really stuck, ask your partner. What she says will be right.

I didn't even want kids until my daughter arrived, now she is the most precious, wonderful thing. Today my wife asked her what made her happy, she wasn't sure about that so she explained, "what makes you smile a lot?" Her response? "Daddy." Sorry, just had to get that one out there!

 

[wazza]

Cheers guys.

I learnt early on that the mrs is always right. I hope my boy will say some thing like that but I've a feeling that he may be a mummies boy.

 

[halvor]

You said above that your paternal is over, Chris @wazza What is the setup in the UK? Over here we get two weeks immediately after birth, then it's up to the family. Obviously with feeding and all, the father usually takes his at the end of the 49 or 59 weeks total (which give full or 80% pay, respectively). Mum gets minimum 14 and dad minimum 10 if I remember correctly and the rest is divided between them as they see fit. We split 50-50 at the time, so I was home for six months.

 

[wazza]

For myself, I got two weeks off, one fully pad and one statutory. Then using two weeks holiday as I carried over a week from last year.
The wife has gotten 10 months off, I think its 3 months at 90% pay and then the rest at statutory.
The leave can be shared/split but I started my current job a year ago, on a 3 year training scheme. I'd been trying to get into the industry for at least 5 years since I started night school, which meant I didn't want to share the time off. I'd have loved to but it'll work out better for the future.