after the birth?..

I'm in Sydney and it's going to be 27 degrees here today, hot and sunny. YAY!

Angie was a horrific sleeper, in getting her to sleep, but once she was down we could vacuum in her room and she wouldn't move. Think mum2paris is right, just start as you mean to go on. I stayed with mum for a bit after Angie was born so there was me, mum, her husband, my little sister plus my big sister coming over most nights after work as well as my husband coming when he wasn't working. She never had it quiet but is great now as the lawnmower man ALWAYS comes when she is asleep!

yeah you cant always have everything easy with babies, i think that the hard things really give a speical bond later on in life with your baby. althoguh i would mind having a sleeping beauty princess.

I know exactly what you mean, mike actually really surprised me the other night, we watched that film "a beautiful mind" and there was a scene where the baby nearly could have drowned. it upset him heaps, he said he all of a sudden just thought "what if that was my child?" when you're a parent i think alot of things really hit you alot more than maybe they used to. before i had paris i thought i would like to work in paediatrics.. but now, no way.. i couldn't handle dealing with little babies and children when they were that sick.

Bummer, I usually tape it and forgot last night. Grr i knew there was something i was ment to do.

parenthood certainly makes you think differently. for instance... how many hubbies and boyfriends out there perve at nice looking girlies when you drive or walk past them? these days, girls are dressing up so much older, and acting so much older than they actually are.   I brought mike down to earth soon after Paris was born. i noticed him admiring a couple of girls, who would have been about 17.. which fair enough, was only 3 or 4 years younger than us. but, i said to him "just think, in 15 years time, that will probably be your daughter.." it made him really think, and now he is so concious of it. he's absolutely disgusted.. as i'm sure most people are, when he sees a child, of maybe no more than 9 or 10 years old, dressed in a tiny tank top, skirt so short it's a belt, and face plastered with make-up.. acting out and flirting with boys.   fair enough, maybe when we were younger people maybe looked at some of the things we did and didn't agree with them.. but it really worries me. if this is what our girls are being encouraged to look and act like now..... what will it be like when MY daughter gets there.. and how can i be a fair parent yet still keep her decency and morals intact?

some of the way the kids dress is really disgusting. I'm 26 and I feel so old saying "in my day...."!! But the way some of the kids dress really is appalling. In japan, some of the mothers dye their kids hair...at 3 or 4 years old! And dress them up like dolls with designer gear. Don't get me started on hipster jeans!!!!

yep - one day you just look around, and you have all these responsibilities all of a sudden, a job, the rent the bills.. and you think "I'm too little for this!"   I'm the same as you lizzle.. i hate saying "in my day" but i definately think that childhood should be an innocent time, not having to worry what you wear, if you look right, if you have the next "in" toy.   I still love elastics, knuckle bones, hula hoops and board games.. and so do my neices.. because i have brought them for them. and the best thing is they are so much cheaper than the latest craze... and they are played with for much longer too.

I'm definitely not old fashioned, but I totally agree.
Sometimes I think I sound like my mother...

exactly. and Emma, i know what you mean. wait till you get find yourself saying something to maya that your mum maybe said to you..

my mum always used to tell my sister (who was a complete terror when she was little) that one day she would grow up and have a child just a much of a handful as her, and then she would understand why mum did the things she did. my sister found herself saying that to her daughter one day and thought "i sound like mum, and now i really do know just how she felt" its a bit of a giggle