- We only have two swaddle blankets with the velcro by that company I cannot pronounce or spell (Kiddopapatourous?). One was dirty, dirty.... the other Austin was swaddled in but had spit up all over the front and around the neck at 2am (of course). Faced with the decision of "a little sleep" or "NO SLEEP AT ALL THAT NIGHT" - I chose "a little sleep" and rinsed off the spit up quickly, tossed in the dryer for as long as possible then re-swaddled him right after Neil was done feeding him. Then put him back in the crib.
- Sometimes I don't have a burp cloth downstairs and I have to feed Austin before he bites off my pinky finger so then I resort to using one of his extra onesies we have down there to wipe off any spit up.
- I don't own a bottle sanitizer. I was under the impression that's what husbands were for.
- When Austin is bright and wide awake at 6:30am, we sometimes just bring him to bed with us and pray to the Sleep Gods that, maybe, perhaps he'll fall back asleep with us, maybe? Never happens. Coffee.
- I don't brush his hair, therefore it looks like he has a mohawk at the age of 3 months.
- We've used Target brand diapers (which work better than Pampers btw!). We will try using cloth diapers during the day because it will help the environment, a little.
- I've tried eating lunch while feeding Austin at the same time. Didn't work and only resulted in him having salsa dripped all over his onesie.
May 11, 2009
Does the following make me a bad parent? The kind that CPS goes after?!
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Too funny! And no, those things don't make you a bad parent...it makes you a normal parent! I've cleaned a spit-up on swaddle-me in the middle of the night and dried it with a hair dryer, used inappropriate items for spit-up rags and Griffin has CRAZY hair - a brush wouldn't change that. Oh, and just this morning Griff woke up at 6:30 and we cuddled in bed until 6:50. We did santize all bottles until a year, but only because we lived in a house with lead pipes and I questioned the cleanliness of the water coming out of them, and we are addicted to Pampers...can't help it! :)
That is hilarious, Marisa!
At least you dry the swaddle me! I just wipe it down as best I can and put him back to bed hoping that he's warm everywhere else!
Oh...and bathing Ryland? He's lucky to get one! I'll just put baby lotion on him so that he smells good and it masks his nasty, soured-milk in-the-neck smell.
Wiping up spit up? I've used diapers as burp rags---and not the cloth ones!
Done the "dripped food on my baby's head" while eating thing, too!
Wanna know my ultimate bad parent thing? I ran his bath water, got distracted and forgot to check the temperature before I put him in.....he screamed!!! It was too hot---not 2nd degree burn hot, but hot. I felt HORRIBLE! So...until you've burned your child, you're doing great!
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