Thursday, April 28, 2011

New parents and crazy ideas

Mama’s Losin’ It

3. What is going on in the bedroom? Describe a memorable sleeper.

When Elliot, our first son, was born we were soooooooo new and NERVOUS. It's true what they say, those feelings that come when you walk (or ride in a cool wheelchair) out the hospital door realizing there is no nurse waiting for you at home, realizing that this is your baby, yours, ALL yours. Those feelings of "oh crap. what am I going to do with this baby? how will I know what he wants when he cries? how do I keep him safe and healthy?" etc etc etc. We had all of those feelings, plus some. 

Elliot slept in his crib, directly across the hall from us. Seriously, no more than 12 steps away. We had a cat and a dog at home and we were mortified of them getting in the crib with Elliot (I mean, of course a welsh corgi with stumpy little legs could jump up into a crib with high rails, right?) So what did we do to ensure we could keep Elliot's bedroom door open and keep the animals out of the room?
We stacked child gates in the hallway. Vertically people. We stacked child gates vertically in the hall way. That's right, one on top of the other. Building a nice, tall, wall of child gates. No stumpy leg welsh corgi was going to invade Elliot's room in the middle of the night. No extremely cuddly fat cat was going to jump in his crib. It wasn't happening.

We did this for at least a couple weeks. Until we realized the animals could care less about Elliot and his crib. We talk about this now and laugh. Good, hard, laughter comes from this memory. I mean, really? Stacking child gates? What kind of paranoid crazy new parents do that?

We do =)



20 comments:

  1. That is too funny! Thanks for the laugh! I did all sorts of crazy things the "first time around' too!

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  2. We had that same fear with our cats and were surprised to also learn that Norman and Vera could care less about this baby thing. We talked for months about what we were going to do and how we would handle the situation. And then she came home and the cats were like...you've been gone forever where's our food?
    Found you at Mama Kat's!

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  3. How funny. I would have been too lazy to put up and take down the crates.

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  4. I remember that feeling of "what am I doing with this baby" like it was yesterday and my oldest has 2 children of her own now.

    Thanks for coming by Grams Made It. Stopping in from Mama Kat's.

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  5. hahaha!!! That's hilarious! All first timers do some crazy (I mean doting) things. you should have taken a picture, though!!

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  6. heh. The things we do for our firstborns:)

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  7. the first one ALWAYS freaks you out and makes you the dumbest things :)

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  8. My cats actually slept next to Spencer after he was brought home. But yes we do things a little different the second time around and even more different the third time.

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  9. we do strange things whenw e are sleep deprived, and especially when we need baby to sleep and animals are trying to disrupt!!

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  10. i hope you got a pic of that, because that is just funny!

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  11. oh course I wasn't in my right mind to take a picture, I was sleep deprived from worrying about the animals =)

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  12. I bet the 3rd time around is way go with the flow yah?

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  13. crazy and doting are the same things when it comes to babies aren't they? =)

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  14. Oh, so was I, I made my husband do it hahahaha

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  15. Cat's are so silly that way!! Such supreme beings =)

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  16. you're welcome for the laugh! thanks for stopping by!

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