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  • Dadsnet-World Membership?
  • JEngledow
    Free Member

    My god this whole being a dad thing is stressful and I’ve only been doing it a day and a half! Yesterday little Arthur Edward decided to turn up 5weeks early, he weighed a fairly respectable 5lb2.5, but has a chest infection so is in the Special Care Baby Unit. He’s now breathing on his own and is in a cot instead of the incubator, but he and Mum are going to be in the hospital for at least 5days.

    To make things even worse we’re halfway through having the bathroom replaced so the house is a total tip (everything from the loft is in the spare room so the electrician can get up there) and we don’t even have a loo, we didn’t have a bag packed, the dog needed to be sorted both Grandmas live in Lancashire and we’re in Oxford (although their both down this weekend with a couple of Aunties and Great Grandma!) and I was meant to be chairing several meetings yesterday so I’ve been running around like a blue arsed fly trying to get everything sorted!

    Sorry to waffle on, but I’m already really proud of him and still can’t believe how great my gorgeous and surprisingly tough wife is. I’ve just sat down with the dog and a cold beer, and so finally to my point: do I need to apply or am I automatically granted ‘Dadsnet-World’ membership by putting something about the little bugger on here?

    deadlydarcy
    Free Member

    Membership is automatic!

    Congratulations! 😀 Hope he and your missus have a good week and are well looked after.

    johndoh
    Free Member

    Welcome and enjoy.

    Ohh and don’t stress – it’ll all come to you and babies don’t care about mess or lack of sanitaryware.

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    sugdenr
    Free Member

    All that and they are still in hospital. It REALLY kicks off when they come home, full on for the next 18 yrs. +. I loves it.

    beefheart
    Free Member

    You got it buddy!
    The hard work is yet to come! 🙂

    You are there, so chillax.

    JEngledow
    Free Member

    Ah balls, that was what I feared Sugdenr!

    Although the Plumer/tilers etc have been great and will hopefully be finished by Tue so I can get the house sorted(ish) before they come home and the real fun/horror starts!

    The staff at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford have all been really nice and are brilliant at making us feel at ease no matter how scary the situation (although we’ve been lucky as he’s healthy compared to some!).

    cloudnine
    Free Member

    Congratulations.. the arrival of your first child is one crazy day. Perfect a good burping technique asap as it will save hours of trudging round the house at all hours of the day/night with a grumbly baby

    djglover
    Free Member

    Get a good nights sleep. Its the last one you will get for 12 years….

    Congrats!

    juanking
    Full Member

    Congratulations, tis awesomezz!

    Hohum
    Free Member

    Congratulations to you and your wife (and the bairn!)

    The hard work starts now.

    And just when you are thinking you need a break another wee bugger pops up! 😉

    althepal
    Full Member

    Congrats! Get some sleep NOW!!

    user-removed
    Free Member

    Yay! Welcome to the grumpy bastard club (us, not the wee ones)! Membership is complete only after you post a pic.

    daveh
    Free Member

    Whoever said it was a rollercoaster ride wasnt kidding, time to fasten your seatbelt!

    Markie
    Free Member

    Congrats! Welcome to the club!

    yunki
    Free Member

    don’t let the bastards grind you down…

    errr, I mean welcome to the happy happy joy joy world of being a dad!! 😀

    murf
    Free Member

    Congratulations! My 2nd wee boy arrived yesterday, bang in time and with much less stress than the 1st. 8lbs 7 and both he and his mum are doing well. Just heading off to the hospital again now 🙂

    JEngledow
    Free Member

    Thanks all and congratulations murf 🙂

    Membership is complete only after you post a pic.

    Here’s the little monster then:

    Muke
    Free Member

    Congratulations,I have posted this before but will post again, hopefully it will bring a smile to your face but ask any parent and I’m sure they will agree that it is good advice. 😉

    FOLLOW THESE 14 SIMPLE TESTS BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO HAVE CHILDREN.

    Test 1 – Preparation

    Women: To prepare for pregnancy:-

    1. Put on a dressing gown and stick a beanbag down the front.
    2. Leave it there.

    3. After 9 months remove 5% of the beans.

    Men: To prepare for children:-

    1. Go to a local chemist, tip the contents of your wallet onto the
    counter and tell the pharmacist to help himself
    2. Go to the supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to
    their head office.
    3. Go home. Pick up the newspaper and read it for the last time.

    Test 2 – Knowledge

    Find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their
    methods of discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance
    levels and how they have allowed their children to run wild. Suggest
    ways in which
    they might improve their child’s sleeping habits, toilet training, table
    manners and overall behavior.
    Enjoy it. It will be the last time in your life that you will have all
    the answers.

    Test 3 – Nights

    To discover how the nights will feel:

    1. Walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet bag
    weighing approximately 4 – 6kg, with a radio turned to static (or some
    other obnoxious sound) playing loudly.
    2. At 10pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight and go to
    sleep.
    3. Get up at 11pm and walk the bag around the living room until 1am.
    4. Set the alarm for 3am.
    5. As you can’t get back to sleep, get up at 2am and make a cup of tea.
    6. Go to bed at 2.45am.
    7. Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off.
    8. Sing songs in the dark until 4am.
    9. Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up when it goes off.
    10. Make breakfast.

    Keep this up for 5 years. LOOK CHEERFUL.

    Test 4 – Dressing Small Children

    1. Buy a live octopus and a string bag.
    2. Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that no arms hang
    out.
    Time Allowed: 5 minutes.

    Test 5 – Cars

    1. Forget the BMW. Buy a practical 5-door MPV.
    2. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment.
    Leave it there.
    3. Get a coin. Insert it into the CD player.
    4. Take a box of chocolate biscuits; mash them into the back seat.
    5. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.
    Test 6 – Going For a Walk

    Wait
    Go out the front door
    Come back in again
    Go out
    Come back in again
    Go out again
    Walk down the front path
    Walk back up it
    Walk down it again
    Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes.
    Stop, inspect minutely and ask at least 6 questions about every piece of
    used chewing gum, dirty tissue and dead insect along the way.
    Retrace your steps
    Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the neighbours
    come out and stare at you.
    Give up and go back into the house.
    You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.

    Test 7
    Repeat everything you say at least 5 times.

    Test 8 – Grocery Shopping

    1. Go to the local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can
    find to a pre-school child – a fully grown goat is excellent. If you
    intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat.
    2. Buy your weekly groceries without letting the goat(s) out of your
    sight.
    3. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys.

    Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having
    children.

    Test 9 – Feeding a 1 year-old

    1. Hollow out a melon
    2. Make a small hole in the side
    3. Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it side to side
    4. Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to land them into the
    swaying melon while pretending to be an aeroplane.
    5. Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.
    6. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on the
    floor.
    Test 10 – TV

    1. Learn the names of every character from the Wiggles, Barney,
    Teletubbies and Disney.
    2. Watch nothing else on television for at least 5 years.

    Test 11 – Mess

    Can you stand the mess children make? To find out:
    1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains
    2. Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
    3. Stick your fingers in the flowerbeds and then rub them on clean
    walls. Cover the stains with crayon. How does that look?
    4. Empty every drawer/cupboard/storage box in your house onto the floor
    & leave it there.

    Test 12 – Long Trips with Toddlers

    1. Make a recording of someone shouting ‘Mummy’ repeatedly. Important
    Notes: No more than a 4 second delay between each Mummy. Include
    occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet.
    2. Play this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next 4 years.
    You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.

    Test 13 – Conversations
    1. Start talking to an adult of your choice.
    2. Have someone else continually tug on your shirt hem or shirt sleeve
    while playing the Mummy tape listed above.
    You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a
    child in the room.

    Test 14 – Getting ready for work

    1. Pick a day on which you have an important meeting.
    2. Put on your finest work attire.
    3. Take a cup of cream and put 1 cup of lemon juice in it
    4. Stir
    5. Dump half of it on your nice silk shirt
    6. Saturate a towel with the other half of the mixture
    7. Attempt to clean your shirt with the same saturated towel
    8. Do not change (you have no time).
    9. Go directly to work

    You are now ready to have children.
    Good luck and enjoy.

    mrsi
    Free Member

    Your not wrong about it being stressful, I’m 8 weeks in an it is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever done, the learning curve is pretty bloody steep!
    Its all worth it as soon as you get a smile though, all the puke, shouting, exhaustion etc seem like a reasonable trade off. (You may also become an over emotional simpleton overnight, or that may just be me).

    chakaping
    Free Member

    Congrats.

    We had our second premature baby a couple of months ago, he was 3lbs 12oz and 32 weeks, just past the tipping point but still had to spend a few weeks on the ward learning to keep his temperature.

    Yours shouldn’t struggle too much with that so I hope you get him home soon. It became really tough not having him here after a while, especially with wife determined to breastfeed.

    Anyway, it’s much less stressful the second time around – but then it needs to be because there’s sooo much more to do when you already have another little person to look after.

    Enjoy!

    Baby Robin when new…

    And having his first bath…

    Sandwich
    Full Member

    Congratulations. Along with sleep, fit in a bike ride or two before they get home.

    full on for the next 18 yrs.

    It’s been 24 years since our first arrived, it’s still full on!! And they have left our house to live elsewhere!!!

    scaredypants
    Full Member

    chakaping – Member
    Baby Robin

    Good work, sir !

    molgrips
    Free Member

    First day at home for us was a piece of cake.

    Four years later it’s not.

    JEngledow
    Free Member

    He’s been moved/’downgraded’ to the Low Dependancy Nursery today so he’s a step closer to coming home 🙂

    geoffj
    Full Member

    Good news. Junior gj was 8 weeks early – he’s now a strapping bolshy 9 year old.
    Take the advice about getting the sleep!

    chiefgrooveguru
    Full Member

    Expect the unexpected! Our little angel / prima donna is coming up to 12 weeks old and has been sleeping 12 hours straight overnight fairly consistently for a few weeks – which flies in the face of all the “you’ll never get a good night’s sleep wisdom”. Unfortunately on the other hand, although she’s a very bright happy baby personality-wise, from the 5 week mark onwards she’s been suffering with frequent pain/discomfort most days which means she cries a lot of the time (and she really tells the world when she isn’t happy) and struggles to sleep during the day which means she gets more tired and more difficult as the day progresses. And she vomits all the time – she’s not bothered by it, in fact she’s often happier once she has – 10 times in the space of an hour isn’t uncommon, bringing up in total maybe about 1/4-1/3 of a bottle.

    The only thing keeping us (and particularly my wife) just about sane (I get to go to work in a noisy stressful environment for a break during weekdays!) is getting a decent sleep overnight! She’s gaining weight ok so the NHS aren’t really that bothered and its probably a digestive issue that she’ll grow out of as her gut matures. She is adorable and I’m so thankful she’s fundamentally healthy, just wish this phase wasn’t quite so testing. (At this point someone will say “ah, all babies are tiring, you’re lucky she sleeps through the nights” – seriously I’d get up five times a night in exchange for a happy baby that doesn’t scream much of the day and go from happy smile to absolute banshee wail of sadness in the blink of an eye…)

    Enjoy your new addition! 🙂

    jamj1974
    Full Member

    Beautiful babies! Not ashamed to say it brings a tear to this (sober) eye. Congratulations and wishes for tremendously happy days ahead.

    Enjoy the new babies chaps!

    chiefgrooveguru
    Full Member

    Miss X Guru at a couple of hours old:

    Amused but clearly plotting her next scheme… (or vice versa)

    mrblobby
    Free Member

    Congratulations! As has probably already been said, get as much sleep as you can while the missus and jr are in still in hospital, you’re going to need it 🙂 Some amazing times ahead.

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Our little angel / prima donna is coming up to 12 weeks old and has been sleeping 12 hours straight overnight fairly consistently for a few weeks – which flies in the face of all the “you’ll never get a good night’s sleep wisdom”

    🙂

    Just because she’s sleeping through now doesn’t mean she will continue to do so. Babies often settle right down early in their lives, then all hell breaks loose when they are 12 months.. 2.. 3… 4…

    “DADDY! I HAD A BAD DREAM!!!”

    sugdenr
    Free Member

    JEngledow – Member

    One of the joys of being a dad and having a new born is being able to loft them one handed, get a photo of that and get it out again when they are older, they are usually amazed by it.

    Muke – cheers for that, I p****d myself

    daftvader
    Free Member

    congrats its great and gets better 8)
    if it makes you feel any better when mini vader arrived (3 weeks early) we had just moved house, 3 weeks previously. the house needed decorating throughout and that meant some serious work, i was under the impression i would have 6 week….
    the day mini vader arrived we had the carpet fitters in and new bedroom furnature delivered. as i needed help putting the bed togeter and ditching all the rubbish me and mrs vader were on a mattres on the floor that night. of course it had to happen when the house was in a state with crap all over the place, i got the nudge and the “oooo i think we need to go”.
    get home next day and phone a friend to help me sort the house out, put bed togeter, 3 tip runs etc. 5 years later i am almost finished the decorating 😆

    ransos
    Free Member

    Your not wrong about it being stressful, I’m 8 weeks in an it is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever done, the learning curve is pretty bloody steep!

    It does get a bit easier (mine’s coming up 2, and we have another on the way), albeit hard work. But mostly it’s just brilliant.

    ratherbeintobago
    Full Member

    Congrats!

    First six months are an endurance test; after that it gets much easier.

    Miss RBIT Mk II now 9 weeks old, Mk I 2½ and extremely bossy…

    Andy

    mogrim
    Full Member

    Congrats, and these are very wise words:

    Ohh and don’t stress – it’ll all come to you and babies don’t care about mess or lack of sanitaryware.

    petehunjan
    Free Member

    [quoteMuke – Member
    Test 4 – Dressing Small Children

    1. Buy a live octopus and a string bag.
    2. Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that no arms hang
    out.
    Time Allowed: 5 minutes.

    Test 11 – Mess

    Can you stand the mess children make? To find out:
    1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains
    2. Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
    3. Stick your fingers in the flowerbeds and then rub them on clean
    walls. Cover the stains with crayon. How does that look?
    4. Empty every drawer/cupboard/storage box in your house onto the floor
    & leave it there.

    Test 12 – Long Trips with Toddlers

    1. Make a recording of someone shouting ‘Mummy’ repeatedly. Important
    Notes: No more than a 4 second delay between each Mummy. Include
    occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet.
    2. Play this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next 4 years.
    You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.

    Test 13 – Conversations
    1. Start talking to an adult of your choice.
    2. Have someone else continually tug on your shirt hem or shirt sleeve
    while playing the Mummy tape listed above.
    You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a
    child in the room.
    [/quote]

    Above had me PMSL. So true!!

    Congrats and good luck

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