Male and Female Imponderables--Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane

POSTED BY: Tristan
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 2, 2006 20:49
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FUTUREMRSFILLION

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 6:44 PM

Tristan - Everyone needs a little dancing pickle once in awhile!

Phoenix-SHE WHO SHOULD BE IN BED - excellent! Beware or someone might steal it!

one of the Forsaken TM

PHOENIXROSE

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 6:45 PM

Steal away!

Going to bed now...

TRISTAN

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 6:53 PM

Thank you, Penguin...I was a bit slow on the uptake on that.

FMF. Ok, I see your point. Naked dancing pickles are sometimes a necessity.

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MSG

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 7:04 PM

WHOA!! Just finished tutoring( babysitting) and boy we had a nasty flash flood level thunderstorm. Uprooted trees ( big old pine trees) etc... Power just came back on. My cold is clearing up..AND My husband has just made me the happiest person on earth. Even though he's not too pro on kids, he's agreed to try and we're going to have a baby!!!!!!!!! Happy dance of joy and rapture I truly have the best and most wonderful husband ever! sorry had to do that as I am about to pop...oh and my baby sis Margi is pregnant :)

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

BLACKSHAMROCK5

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 7:14 PM

Congrats! have fun baby makin'

Shamrock

GRRRARG

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 7:14 PM

There is no single event which has more profoundly and deeply changed me than the time I've had with my son.
Heres what your husband should expect -
Pregancy isnt nearly as bad for the husband as the wife, however...
If complications should arise, he's johnnie on the spot - as happened a month before my son was born and my wife developed a severe case of preeclampsia - one of the few things that still kills women in childbirth. I was the guy making the medical decisions at that point.
The first 3 months of the kids life are hard on parents, because the child doesnt give anything back - he eats, sleeps (rarely), poops, and howls. For three months.
My boy laughed at me for the first time at the end of 3 months, and I was lost.
Teething - get a book called "The Happiest Baby on the Block". This will alow you and the baby to sleep. This is the greatest single book ever writen.
Get used to unpleasant biological things getting on pretty much every square cm of your body.
Remember that every little thing, from rolling over to talking, is a first, and should be treated as the triumph it is.
My kid is amazingly sweet tempered and kind - for a 3 year old - and the key to success:
A lot of carrot and a little stick. Praise often, punish occationally - time-outs work well for my boy. Lead by example - you want your child to say please and thank you - you gotta say it too. The rules apply to everyone; heres the logic behind no spanking - you cant tell your child "no hitting other people" and then spank him for it. And if daddy does something against the rules, he gets a time-out too.

Fatherhood is the single best thing thats ever happened to me. I love that boy more than my own life.

"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes." -Terry Pratchett "Night Watch"