• Home
  • About »
    • for Beginners
    • Disclaimer
  • Links »
    • Educational Resources
    • Parenting Websites
    • for Chicago Parents
    • Mommy Blogroll
  • Archives »
    • by Category
    • by Tags
    • by Date
    • Most Commented
    • Most Read
  • Contact

Practical Mama

Practical wisdom and balanced lifestyle for parents

  • Home
  • Parenting
    • Positive Parenting
    • Parenting Fun
    • Working Mother
    • Community Involvement
  • Baby and Child
    • Pregnancy
    • Delivery/Birth
    • Breastfeeding
    • Kids’ Health
    • Sleep
    • Potty Training
    • Kids’ Safety
  • Play & Learn
    • Arts and Crafts
    • Play
    • Books
    • Education
    • School
    • Birthday Parties
  • Home
    • Home Organization
    • Gardening
    • Sewing
    • Backyard Chickens
    • Product Review
  • Food
    • Recipes
    • Nutrition
    • Practical Cooking
    • Kitchen Tips
    • Menu Plan Monday
  • Health & Fitness
    • Health
    • Fitness
    • Beauty
  • Travel
    • Family Travel Tips
    • Chicago
    • International Destinations
    • US Destinations
  • Blogging
    • News
    • Giveaways
You are here: Home / Parenting / Parenting Fun / Crazy things parents do only with their first child

Parenting Fun

Crazy things parents do only with their first child

By Practical Mama |
This post may contain affiliate links

Pin2
Share
Tweet
2 Shares

With your first child, you aim to be the perfect parent and you do some crazy things that you’d never repeat with your second or latter children.

  1. Read “what to expect” book from cover to cover and every weekly pregnancy newsletter from babycenter.com. You make a list of questions filling up a letter-sized paper before going to your ob-gyn.
  2. Read “First year” book and “my baby this week” babycenter.com newsletter and worry as if a meteor going to hit Earth if your baby has not reached a milestone that you’ve read in the newsletter.
  3. Waste money on fancy, “brand name” infant clothes that your baby will spit up,  pee on and grow out of in 3 days. Don’t even get me started on infant shoes.
  4. Buy a huge bottle sterilizer and sterilize the bottles, nipples and pacifiers after every single use. The long list of “unnecessary baby gadgets you should never waste your money on” continues with “baby wipe warmers”.
  5. Sign up for every gym, music and mom-tot activity in town. Then, get worried if your child is not playing along with the rest of the group and consult your pediatrician if you child has a learning delay.
  6. Make homemade cereal flour from organic whole grains with your food processor and sifter. I must have had a lot of time on my hands.
  7. Run to the bedroom at every whimper or move you hear from the baby monitor when your baby is sleeping.
  8. Wake your baby up to breastfeed, because it’s been 3 hours since you’ve fed him last. What crazy person wakes up a baby? Only a new mom whose hormones are all jacked up.
  9. Ask your nurse to explain you again why you have to wait for 3 days before bringing your baby in the office when you were expecting an urgent appointment for your baby’s 99F fever.
  10. Take a zillion photos and share on every social media possible. But your friends were already expecting this since you started announcing what fruit size your baby is, every week when you were pregnant.

These are the great things that your second child will never enjoy.

Let me know if you have done other crazy things with your first child that you look back and say “what the heck was a thinking?”.

 

Pin it for later:

Crazy things parents do

You might also like:

  • Book Review: When Children Ask About God
    Book Review: When Children Ask About God
  • When baby teeth fall out but permanent teeth don't come in right away
    When baby teeth fall out but permanent teeth don't come in…
  • What we are reading this week
    What we are reading this week
  • Why I love reading parenting books
    Why I love reading parenting books

Thank you!

You have successfully joined our subscriber list.

.
« Previous Post: My life without Facebook

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Get the newsletter

All the latest sent straight to your inbox so you never miss out!

Thank you!

You have successfully joined our subscriber list.

.


I am a mother of two and a type of person who you would call “Jack of all trades, master of none”. As you might guess from categories, I love my children, reading, sewing, gardening, traveling and cooking. I also work full time so I have to be practical to do all the things I want to do in a 24-hr-day. More About Me


More on Practical Mama

How to boost your immune system for winter
How to make your own bone broth
Record your own lullaby
Sandpaper Letters

Trending

  • Massage for ear infection and earache
  • Packing hot school lunches and keeping them warm
  • 20 Thermos school lunch ideas
  • How to prevent knee holes in pants
  • How to turn flat sheets into fitted sheets
  • How to hack a pull up bar to use as gymnastics training bar for kids
  • DIY- How to build a balance beam
  • Arts & Crafts: Glittery Eiffel Tower
  • Organizing LEGO instruction booklets
  • Is it normal for an infant not to poop for days?

Categories

Archives

Copyright ©2023, Practical Mama. All Rights Reserved. Custom design by Pixel Me Designs