PoppedCorn
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- Dec 29, 2009
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I pay less off my house
Jesus christ thats unreal!
Fmd
550 a week
I pay less off my house
Jesus christ thats unreal!
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Best of luck. You've just undergone the biggest life change you could possibly have. Only natural there would be a reaction. Just do your best all anyone can ask.Gave birth early February and just going through a spell of PND. Did think I'd go through my First year Scott free but increasingly in tears over silly things. I have reduced posting in the SFA as many of the lads there are nasty towards me. But mostly as it's gone stale and is more of a wankfest for small Boys
In truth a bit f’ed off and not really interested. But still so happy to have my daughter, husband is great... I'm just a total shitbag so probably just me being a twat.
We were in the same situation with the kids being the wrong way and forced into c section. C section rocks as the guy. Its all done in 30 mins. No 20-50 hour wait arounds till births. 30 mins and done. Also things stay compact downstairs with only a small scar in a region you wont care about that mostly heals.About a month away from the first being due. Having a boy. Currently looking like a C section because the little bugger is still upright. Wife is actually stoked because she is super routine and I doubt would handle sitting around waiting for labour very well.
She works for a small family business and pretty much runs the entire show, so i'll be staying home with bub for the first 8 weeks. Luckily my company offers full parental leave to mothers OR fathers (just need to tick that you are the primary caregiver and you're good to go).
We are 30, own a house and have travelled, so the timing feels right to start a family. Feel as ready as anybody can be.
Will return in 6 months and edit this post to add in how difficult everything has been and how naive I was about everything .
About a month away from the first being due. Having a boy. Currently looking like a C section because the little bugger is still upright. Wife is actually stoked because she is super routine and I doubt would handle sitting around waiting for labour very well.
She works for a small family business and pretty much runs the entire show, so i'll be staying home with bub for the first 8 weeks. Luckily my company offers full parental leave to mothers OR fathers (just need to tick that you are the primary caregiver and you're good to go).
We are 30, own a house and have travelled, so the timing feels right to start a family. Feel as ready as anybody can be.
Will return in 6 months and edit this post to add in how difficult everything has been and how naive I was about everything .
Ditto. . But then would miss them too much and pick them up later that day. Probably the best and worst thing you'll ever do if that makes sense.Have 2, and too often contemplate the ramifications of dropping them off at an orphanage.
Good luck with it mate. Enjoy your sleep while you can!About a month away from the first being due. Having a boy. Currently looking like a C section because the little bugger is still upright. Wife is actually stoked because she is super routine and I doubt would handle sitting around waiting for labour very well.
She works for a small family business and pretty much runs the entire show, so i'll be staying home with bub for the first 8 weeks. Luckily my company offers full parental leave to mothers OR fathers (just need to tick that you are the primary caregiver and you're good to go).
We are 30, own a house and have travelled, so the timing feels right to start a family. Feel as ready as anybody can be.
Will return in 6 months and edit this post to add in how difficult everything has been and how naive I was about everything .
Bub was born on the 13th. Been just as incredible as I had anticipated.
C section went as routinely as one can go, aside from a drop in the wife's bloody pressure meaning they didn't get to 'drop the sheet' to show us our son right after he came out.
Main stress so far has been a drop in weight but we are back on top of it now with formula to top up his intakes. Gained 130g in a day which is great.
We managed to attend a friends 30th last night and stayed for 3 hours. We had most people mention how calm we looked and how amazing it was that we managed to make it let alone stay as long as we did. What has really helped has been trying to divide up everything 50/50 where possible. The mrs will also do a bit more due to the breast feeding and expressing, but we are taking the loads off one another and not letting it become overwhelming.
It also helps that he currently sleeps 3 hours at a time, wakes for a feed and then nods off again. Cycle repeat during the night. Getting some decent sleep and both have a god stretch of time off work to really sink our teeth into newborn parenting.
We also have a great support network of family and friends who wanted to be involved. A luxury not everyone has afforded to the and one we aren't taking for granted.
Awesome man. Lots of great moments ahead. Ours is 3 months and he’s just beginning to laugh. So funny putting him in front of a mirror and watching him crack up while you pull faces. All the best with it.
Yep I feel the same way. I'm not a bad person, but I get frustrated quite easily with certain things. I don't want to lose my temper at a kid because my patience is shortI was a full time step parent to two kids at 26. Genuinely changed my life; made me understand that I'm not the type that should ever have a child. I do not like that life. I think a lot of people would be in the same situation but they just don't understand it yet. Please, guys. DON'T rush into parenthood. Really think about your priorities.
Because TRUST ME. It can turn you into a bad person, regardless of how good you think you are. Children can change so much; not only can your life change - you may change. You may not always like who you become.
Yep I feel the same way. I'm not a bad person, but I get frustrated quite easily with certain things. I don't want to lose my temper at a kid because my patience is short
Amen to that brother. Nothing made me feel like a bigger piece of s**t than getting angry at a kid for a small annoying habit.
To the married couples who flat out refuse to have a kid, what would happen if the condom snapped or the pill was actually proven to be ineffective? Just curious?
You can pretty much blank other school parents if you want to. Just cos your kid has a play date or a party, doesn't mean you have to be there. School pick up drop off, ditto.My boys are now 4 & 2. I didn't really care if I had kids or not, to be fair in my early thirties I was happy not to have them, my wife and I had been together for years and married for about 4 years. But my wife wanted them and we agreed on 1, then she pressed me for 2. To be fair now with two kids I would be the one of us who would be more inclined to have a third
Each to their own but I wouldn't change not having kids and having them has made me a better person imo. Having them has made me less self centred and probably more ambitious as now I more worried about providing for them rather than just myself (to be fair I had a pretty good career before them). To me being responsible for someone other than myself has been a good experience.
I remember when my wife was pregnant with our first I just kept on thinking how much I am going to get them babysat so we could go out ext. Then by the time the first cam along my thoughts totally changed.
The one thing I'm not looking forward to is getting to the school age when I have to deal with other parents, I have zero ******* interest in meeting new people ext
Yeah that is the plan.You can pretty much blank other school parents if you want to. Just cos your kid has a play date or a party, doesn't mean you have to be there. School pick up drop off, ditto.
i am sick of people telling me to have kids, first off I've been single 6 years, second huge mental health problems in our family depression, schizophrenia, dementia, bipolar among others
another problem is the financial burden, the sleep burden and the burden on my free time
I'm still doing my CPA which is a financially burden
Kids aren't a necessity I get as much love from my dogs as you would a kid
CPA a financial burdon?I'm still doing my CPA which is a financially burden