Recently I saw Sainsbury’s commercial about new parents. I
think it’s brilliant! I could recognize myself in many situations. The point of
the commercial is that new parents tend to be over protected, buy a lot of
unnecessary baby related stuff and seem don’t know what the baby really needs.
The commercial world is making money buy selling products, so there is huge
amount of baby products some are really useful other really just a junk to get
money from you.
When I was pregnant with my first baby, I was reading a lot
of baby related forums and website. A lot of different advice was given. I can
tell you one thing, I’m so glad that I was reading ahead and was a bit prepared
for the baby. Too much reading can be too much as well. I have been reading an
excellent book about pregnancy by an American author. That book about pregnancy
was awesome, so I read her next book about actually having baby and the first
few months. She wrote about her experience and her friend’s experiences, the
things she told in her book were not true for me (thank GOD for that!). The
life she described after having a child is most likely a horror. It’s really
not that bad.
What you really need to know is that it’s crucial to have
all necessary stuff for your baby for the first few months. Believe me, after
you give birth to your child you will not be in the mood neither in state to go
and shop around. If you are amazingly in shape to do so, why should you? All
the stress, looking for the “right” stuff and running up and down with newborn
baby is really unnecessary. All that hassle can be avoided; I was so enormously
happy that I had bought most of the essential things. I was missing a few
things, and had to rush to the store. The way I felt, I cant describe it. The
first few months with the baby you basically don’t sleep at all (there seem to
be some amazing magically babies that do sleep the whole night, I heard a lot
about them but haven’t seen one yet). Babies wake up every 2.5-3 hours to eat,
they have small stomach so can’t have too much food and therefore they have to eat
frequently. So can you imagine me going outside for the first time in days,
after no sleeping at all? I felt so dizzy and weak.
Be patient with your precious baby, they just arrived to
this world and have no experience at all. They do everything for the first time
and even eating costs a lot of their energy and skills. When you understand why
babies to what they do, I found it easier to cope with. For example, if you
know that your baby is crying because he has tooth growing you know the reason
it’s a lot more reassuring that don’t know why our baby is refusing to eat, is
unsettled, cant sleep in the night and cries all the time.
Like I said be patient with you little baby, they grow up so fast! Believe me they do, the first 3-6 months are the hardest then it's getting easier and easier.
