Not a Dad but just wanted to say congratulations marra. Hope everything goes well for your missus xx
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Becoming a dad
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brir
Striker
There's probably some cracking online videos on how to do all of that TBF
Practice changing a nappy on a doll
Sleep when you can
Learn how to cook at least half a dozen meals
Make sure you know how to clean the house and do housework
Do your fair share round the house as she'll be more knackered than you
Work out stuff for you to do for and with the baby that's your time and gives her a break
sketchy
Striker
Had to laugh at know how to clean the house
Is this advice for a teenager?!
PrisonBroken
Striker
With a baby routine, routine and more routine. She almost broke us at around the 14 month mark. Wouldn't sleep longer than a couple of hours at a stretch. 18 months 7-7 and things got better.
Kids are a laugh, babies can be a f***ing nightmare, good luck.
Kids are a laugh, babies can be a f***ing nightmare, good luck.
Ned Land
Winger
It worked for us. We tried sleep training but felt a bit cruel leaving them to cry on their own. Iirc our youngest called it Shaun.
Everyone has an opinion with raising very young children but you just have to find what works for your household.
Seaham Towny
Striker
The first two points duly noted.
As for the rest of it. I already know and do those things.
Had to laugh at know how to clean the house
Wish it went without saying, but it doesn't. There's too many lads whose Mams did everything, got a lass who does everything, then two weeks after the baby's born they don't understand why their game of FIFA is being interrupted by a screaming angry wife
Charmless Man
Striker
Pointless unless it’s a robot baby with realistic leg and hip movement.
Changing a nappy in and of itself is a piece of piss, it’s the fact that babies move like frogs when you’re trying to do it that ramps up the difficulty
Good man
Is this from the 1950’s Manual for the Modern Man?
Pointless unless it’s a robot baby with realistic leg and hip movement.
Changing a nappy in and of itself is a piece of piss, it’s the fact that babies move like frogs when you’re trying to do it that ramps up the difficulty
All I'll say is you can practice the basics and perfect your hand speed before the little shit comes along. Then you've got a solid foundation of technique when you're trying to fasten the sides while they've managed to get fully vertical
Sorry, forgot to add "downgrade from Woodbines to standard Benson and Hedges so the bairn doesn't cough too much"
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Charmless Man
Striker
It’s all in the timing - learn when to hold back and when to strike with the fastenings
It’s all in the timing - learn when to hold back and when to strike with the fastenings
Absolutely right
Similar technical challenges to jackaling at the breakdown in rugby
Charmless Man
Striker
Also get into character as a stern orderly in a Victorian Mental Asylum. Really helps if you decide to swaddle them occasionally.
All three of mine could escape any swaddling attempts anyone tried on them, it insulted their intelligence to even try. It livened up one particularly sleepless month to see the smug smile wiped off a health visitor's face after she "showed me how to swaddle them properly" and number one son just pulled his arms out like a magic trick
