jelous pets?

Hi Anthea, sorry I don't have any experience, but have you spoken with your local vet?

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Good point Dana! One thing we did was we lay JJ down on a clean blanket on the floor when we came home and just let our dog sniff him all over. We were right there in case we needed to be, and a bit of dog slobber won't hurt bubs

We have made sure that our dog is kept away from dirty nappies because apparently they like to take off with them wouldn't surprise me given how much they like to roll in cow manure!

Grossest moment here was when I was changing JJ on the floor, and had left Beans on his bed near where I was changing him. I got up to put the wet nappy in the nappy bucket so left the baby for maybe 5 seconds, and when I turned around the dog was licking the baby's balls! Apparently that's a good sign, just means that Beans thinks of JJ as a puppy, because that's what they do with their puppies, but still, ewwww. Beans gets put outside during nappy free time now!

LOL! They can be little grot bags at times :) At least he would have been clean   

Yep, most dogs are nappy bandits. It's just they way they are and there's no point getting up tight about it like i've seen some people. They yell at the dog for taking them but hey, it's a DOG! If people expect them to think like humans than they'll be sorely disappointed! Dogs clean up after kittens and cats too.

Our dog is very much involved in our house and will continue to be. You are so right, dog slobber isn't going to hurt them and it's best they get used to it young lol.

I confess, I thought it was going to be a while before I had a child so I'm very close with my fur-baby. He's a border collie x ?? and has always been with me since i got him at 4weeks old (they were going to put him down!) when i discovered I was pregnant i started encouraging him to sleep on the floor rather then on the chair or bed, I let him put his ear to my belly when ever he wanted (weird but he often would come and lay his head on my lap to listen to the movements), everytime i got something for baby I'd let him have a sniff before I put it away in the nursery. I made sure my partner fed him more often so he got used to taking food from somebody else. When baby arrived home, we stopped on the doorstep and let him have a sniff, and everytime we went anywhere I'd let him have a sniff and lick her feet on my way past. I also only let him in the lounge if the baby is in there so he associates her with good stuff, I'll feed him with her on my hip, she laughs at him and he adores her. As long as you treat the dog like baby has already arrived (time and space wise) then nothing will change when baby does finally get there.

we have 2 fur babies, who really were our babies until the real baby came along.   1 pitbull and a bullmastiff x pit, so they arent the smallest dogs in the world.

But we just spent heaps of time getting them used to the new things that kept popping up, and DP took home a blanket while i was up at hospital.
Also made them sleep on their couch everynight, where as before sometimes (most nights ) they would sneak on to our bed. I was a little sad secretly, they love the couch now.

So far they havent really given a stuff about bren, they gave him a sniff and then walked off. Im just making sure they arent inside when they have a hypo fit and zoom around.

sorry i admit I have skipped most of the replies..

I have heard of the bringing a blanket home that baby has been sleeping in home bfore baby so they can get the smell. We didn't do this though.. we already had kids so didn't think it would be too much of an issue... what we did do is when we got home we didn't tell out dog to go away etc... (hes a boxer and can get rather excited) and let him sniff Rhyley alot (but making sure he was gentle sstill) and for ages he actually left Rhyley alone and was not interested in him (until Rhylz started walking in fact)

You might be supprised - although even though I totally trusted our dog there was this part of me who still kept a side eye on him...just incase.