Most of it is common sense. Raising a baby. I realized us women/mothers take in as much advice as possible when it comes to their little one. Whether it be true or not.. that statement/comment the other mother/female made is in the back of your head. There is no ';manuel'; or ';instructions'; that come with having a baby... so it is not hard for mothers to be wrong with atleast ONE thing and wonder if they are doing everything right.
I think one of my biggest so far with my 5 month old was bathing. To.. ';You are not supposed to give your newborn a bath everynight!!....and then ';Make sure you give your baby a bath everyday just don't keep them in the water too long!';......';Do NOT put lotion on them all the time! It will dry the skin out';....';Make SURE you keep them all lotioned up..there skin will dry out!!'; lol...
So I was completely wrong. I followed with it is okay to give them a bath just don't keep lotion on them all the time. Why? I have no clue. Just what I fell into. Come to find out.. you CAN give them a bath.. just don't keep them in there too long..and make SURE you put lotion on your baby after the bath...or they will def. get dry skin. And sure enough... my poor little guy developed dry DRY skin. Why in the world do they sell the Johnson %26amp; Johnson bathing products if it is not good for them!? It only smells good the doctors say. And I found out the hard way. So now we have to use Dove body wash and Eucerin lotion.
Anyway... just thought this would be a fun question and wanted to hear others responses to this. What was your mistake that you didn't know you were making at first?FUN QUESTION:The Shocking Truths about raising a baby... What you THOUGHT was true turned out WRONG!?
I as well helped with my little sister by babysitting her and when my brothers had kids I baby sat for them as well. Well when I had my daughter I was not as lost as some of my friends were when they had their kids just breast feeding was not as easy as I thought it would be. But my husband was something else. She started to peel which all babies to well he rushed her to the ER when this happened and he was so upset I did not want to take her that he took her and left me home. I met them at the er and the dr just looked at us and was like first time parents huh. I was so embarrassed. But it did not end there he said the dr did not know crap and took her to two more ers. He had never been around children before we had ours. But let me say this it is funny now but Icould have killed him that night.FUN QUESTION:The Shocking Truths about raising a baby... What you THOUGHT was true turned out WRONG!?
Everyone had something to say about how I should do this and that but I took it all with a grain of salt. Basically, I did what I felt was best and went with my instinct. I'm so happy that I did. When it comes down to it, mommas ALWAYS know what's best for their own baby.
I have never heard your thing about lotion and never put lotion on my own children.
The thing people can't express is what sleep deprivation is like.
After watching my inexperienced sister in law and brother raise my niece, I learned from their mistakes and was able to avoid any major mistakes with my first son.
When I first had my daughter, I tried to be really ';tough'; on her. Like I would let her cry so she wouldn't get her way, or I wouldn't hold her hardly because I didn't want spoil her. But now that she's older, the advice from the doctors really made sense because they honestly don't know how to ask for anything but what they need. If I could go back, I would have held her more and comforted her more when she was a newborn. Although, I do think a person can go too far with it, you just have to use your best judgment.
One of my friends told me that she shouldn't eat over 3 oz. per 4 hours and my baby would just scream and scream in the afternoons. I finally realized after she got a little older that she gets hungrier in the afternoons. She was just hungry! I let me and her go through all that because people kept telling me she was eating too much. It was ridiculous! Now I wish I would've listened to my instincts and done what I thought was right.
After all, if you do something that you don't exactly agree with, and it turns out what you thought was right might have been better, you get stuck with feeling like you should have followed your instincts, so you might as well go ahead and do it anyway.
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