Welcome to this week's episode, guys. time Zoe is turning six months, that's right, her half birthday. Very exciting. We're also going to be covering feeding challenges, adjusting to the work home routines, physical and emotional strains that just life of parents, I suppose. please stay tuned.

okay, episode 25.

25. Mmm. Oh, baby is officially. six months. as of

of

Yesterday. Two No.

No, yeah,

yesterday. Eleven minutes past two in the morning.

She's currently feeding she's a bit hyper. We keep trying to tire her out, but she's not having it. She's decided, uh,

sleep when you were having Lyon today. And then she slept for an hour on the way, on the way to the National Trust and on the way back. Oh, she keeps tugging on my nipple today. Like, she's always done a bit of tugging, but she's now really like, she proper clamps down, like, Mmm, and like,

and roll.

and sort of like, stretches it. And it's just like, oh, pretty sharp pain. Right, can we just, let's see. Come on, sleepy, sleepy time. I'll do some rocking like a crazy person. Alright, so might be a little bit patchy, Yeah a very patchy episode we're trying to do it quickly. Why are try to do it quickly? Because itate and we've got a macaroni and cheese in the oven. Yeah, it's already half six. It's late for us. And we've got haggis mac and cheese. which is what your request was for Sunday lunch this weekend. Any of your faves?

Yep.

And then you've got caramel peanut pudding, definitely. more yours than mine I think, because it's very

So talk to me about the Mac cheese.

So, creamy creamy macaroni cheese, classic, you know. But I went for a rogue new ingredient, I've put some processed cheese in this time. Because it in American, it's meant to improve the texture, because it never really gets hard like a regular. cheese would when it sets up. So it should stay like a creamier texture.

text.

Because of the good processed nature of So we'll see. And then on top. delicious haggis. Which goes really nice and crisp in the oven, doesn't it? It's really nice. And a little crumble of, because we had some left over, They're very nice though. Because normally I don't like flavoured crisps. I'm quite boring. I like really salted.

I don't

Because I don't know if there's any sort of sweetness in them, but these are, those are completely savory, which is why I quite like them.

As Mate said about his partner, the most white girl thing, she doesn't like flavoured crisps.

crisps. She doesn't

white girl thing. But her partner doesn't like flavoured crisps. Because I went round to his, and he had those, you know those Doritos lightly salted. And I was like, what the fuck

but actual Doritos? Just buy basic tortilla

I get that, but anyway, what's the point of them? Doesn't, they are so lightly salted, it's

Yeah, I like it heavily salted. That's what I want. I want a heavily salted tortilla chip. That's what I want. Because then it's for dipping. I do like a plain crisp, or a chip, if we have an American audience, like we have that viewing audience. Yeah, but anyway, you think I'm weird for liking really salty crisps the most, but there we go.

think it's weird that that's your main flavour, I feel

don't really,

like vanilla with

I'm just not a crisp person, darling. I'm not really a crispy person. But I love salt, so if I'm I'm salty. So I don't mind other flavours, They're A little bit sweet, there's a lot of sweet edges and I'm like, I've got no time for that. It's completely savoury, I'm all up for it. it's like a cheese flavour, I quite

You don't like. cheese and onion that much.

No, because they put sugar in it.

it. Sour cream and onion?

put sugar in it. I like all these. but if they put sugar in them, I'm like, ugh, I can taste It

Just try the bouncer thing straight off Yeah, she

is not having it, can you grab her from me. Yeah,

at you bounce! Okay, so we're back on. We've moved the baby girl to one of those springy door things. I know you're not really meant to use them, but here we are. Here we are, eh?

If she gets hip dysplasia, be like, I can get to hydrotherapy.

are we finished discussing the mac and cheese and the food?

can talk you through the caramel pudding if you

Oh yeah, talk to us about the leaky tit on the loose.

a, just a touch of dribble. That's fine. So you've got these little caramel peanut cookies, which are a bit kind of like a Florentine. Yeah, so they're a crunchy caramel peanut cookie, and then I made it like a sort of mousse with peanut butter, caramel, cream, and I just layered them up. kind of a winner for you, really. Mm hmm.

do love that. Um,

be a good one for you. Um, whatever you don't the freezer. Ooh, frozen dessert. A moment so you don't eat it all. Okay,

been your second week off. Yeah, and getting into rhythm. Most definitely.

this week has been your second week off. second week full week, I guess. First full week at work. Yeah. I think we're still getting to the rhythm. Most

definitely

maybe this week is the week where we find our rhythm. We can hope. I think I found it more of a struggle this week.

I definitely did, yeah.

Just feeling like we're trying to balance everything, Felt a lot harder this week, I think. I don't know, yeah, I think because my work is quite busy. I've got A lot of projects that are coming to an end and starting, and stuff, so it's just quite a lot of work. And So I'm struggling to finish like on time.

Yeah.

Which then it bleeds into our evenings, which means that I've not been as much of a support to you in the evenings as I want to be. Or I've not been able to do the things at the gym that I want to do.

do. Yeah.

So therefore like, yeah, my self care the care of, My care of looking after You I don't know if I said that in English, but you know what I

care. Hasn't

My couple care. Hasn't been good either. Which I think hasn't added which has added to the fact that you have felt Okay, It's been a massive change for you, isn't it?

you've gone

Because you've gone from someone who sort of does work, and then because combination of me being off. and also me breastfeeding, And I'm someone who normally does the housework and away. and cooking to suddenly So actually, you weren't actually having to do much other than work. I'm not saying, I'm not

I'm not disagreeing. Um, but you know, being doing work,

like you've gone from, yeah, being doing work, and then very little. housework. never having to cook. Having to look after Bubs probably max an hour, most days. Maybe an hour and a half.

having to look after the

Weekends, absolutely more, but on a weekday. So then suddenly you're having to look after her. You know, for the majority of the time.

the majority of the day, and I'm doing most of the sort of daily cleaning,

you're doing dinner which is very new for you.

And that's where I really struggle in those evenings. Where by your work bleeds later because it's then, well, when am I making dinner? You still working?

Yeah. So this week I'm gonna be, I'm gonna try and be much firmer with this. might start setting myself an alarm half an hour before I want to finish. So I can start sort of, start curtailing my day. Because I think if I suddenly realise, oh Shit. It's five to four. I want to try and finish by four.

Yeah.

But I'm still like, in a part of the project where I can't really just stop right now. So, Then, obviously, then I go, Okay, well now I am, like, bleeding, like, sort of winding down. But by the time I finish it's half or quarter to five.

project. Yeah. What's up, baby

And then we're getting into sort of dinner time. and she's, and she gets tetchy at that time of day. So that's when

case now. So, she tends

time, as is right now. So she tends to want me because she wants a few feeds and then for a sleep.

Do you her on the boob one

Is this going to work, or do we just stop it? Yeah sure, let's try it one more time, it's fine.

Ok, let's see how long this lasts then. As she yanks at tit.

Yeah. But Yeah, so this week I definitely want to be better at finishing on time, both So I can help out more, like, help support you more in the evenings, because obviously that's when, obviously you've had a full day, but at that point you're kind of like, done, which is absolutely Fair enough. She's tetchy. And obviously like I would like, to, maybe this isn't working, I would like to get my sort of workouts in as well. So yeah, that's sort of what I'm going to try and do this week.

I mean that's going to be problematic anyway because of the way it's scheduled in terms of like you say, you're, I'm going to finish a full day of it and she's going to be in touch with it where she wants breastfeeding but you're going to want to go to the gym. I mean how's that going to work anyway?

I guess I'll just go back to the gym in the mornings.

Or go to the gym once she's gone to bed. I went

I won't sleep though. I'm not really gonna

going to the gym at 8.

No, I

you said previously. You were like, oh, I quite like going at 8. I

I do not want to have to be like, sleeping, in good times. That moment is important because our sleep is disrupted. I wasn't going to bed till ten, maybe so. Ooh! She's real tuggy. So yeah, I guess it's like, wherever you like, do I do it? First thing in the morning. or try and do it at the day. Who knows? Try and figure that out this week. And then you need to try and get your stuff in as well this week, don't you? No,

Yeah, I'm just trying to work out whenever I start talking about it. We can cut it off and then talk about my week and start again.

Yeah, she's not settling

Okay,

was actually quite

We are off ski for take two, the following day, Okay, so i talked about how my week went and how i want to make it better. Your turn. Yeah, well, I guess we were discussing kind of how our last week was actually quite hard and how it didn't kind of go as planned. I think, yeah, it definitely felt like quite a struggle last week. Because I guess this is take two, because we've had to do it the following day, so it's now Monday, so I'm referring to it as last week. Because on the Sunday, I'd done loads and loads of DIY.

DIY.

Well not loads of DIY, but I was gardening, cutting down trees and

of gardening coming down

Sorry, was it? Oh, well, either way. So I was pretty pooped, physically, pretty knackered, and then she, on Monday, really kind of demanded quite a lot of attention, and so I was like, I'll walk her around loads, carry her about, and didn't really think about, like, the toll that would take on my already tired body.

So

So kind of by Tuesday, I was a bit like, Pretty,

already. Pretty tired

pretty done in already on Tuesday.

And

then yeah, Wednesday it was all right, came back around on

Wednesday. We were in my office on Wednesday, weren't we?

she was actually really well behaved in the office. We'll get to that in a bit. And then on Thursday, Yvonne was around and she didn't really sleep very well. She was a bit, she didn't have her afternoon sleep. Story of the, story of the season really. And Yeah, the rest of the time it was alright, but it was, it, it did, it did just feel like quite a lot,

but it was a big step up.

Yeah, so, you know, like you say.

say, I don't,

I won't lie, I don't really do that much around there. Every so often I do the dishwasher and, well, I, I meant to do all the dishwashers and I do most of the dishwashers, but that's about it. Okay, fine. Equal dishwashers?

say, yeah. Okay,

Okay, well now, up until, I definitely have done more, most of them

Yeah.

And so it's, it's quite an adjustment because it's kind of, like you say, I didn't really ever, I have that much time where I'd just look after her. It would only be on the odd occasion when you'd be going and doing something, or whatever, where I'd have extended periods looking after her. And so I'm, I'm struggling with the fact that she, me and her haven't quite got into a routine and got to some sort of balance that we know. And so, Well, my friend came around on, on the Saturday and was like, came around for French toast. I was, I'm incredibly grateful that you did it and I really loved it, but if you could tell I was really wanting to get the fuck out of the house by the end of, after we'd had it. Cause I was just like, spent my whole fucking week here. I don't want to be here anymore. I just want to be out of the house doing something else. And, so I was just pulling him out of the house, and he was like, Let me see your birthday, and I was like, Fuck, I don't care.

I that

enough, I wanna go!

I

And I just got a bit stir crazy with it all, because it is incredibly, like, isolating, in terms of, you just kind of, wake up, pander to your baby all day, go to bed. And then kind of rinse and repeat and the only person I see really is you and I don't mean that in a bad way But like when I'm working I have interaction at least with other people other than you

Yeah.

otherwise it kind of just feels like I spend a lot of time just Kind of having to be like what should be next? What should be next? What should be next? quite exhausting and doesn't really, not really I don't know, stimulating, or, I don't know, it doesn't really create any connection, as it were. You, you don't, that, that sort of social element isn't ticked, that makes sense.

it

And, I'm not really, and blokes just don't get it at all, like, he said, he went, Oh, so, you know, what have you been doing with your time off? You've been hitting the gym, you've been, and I'm like, mate, you just don't understand. It's not, it's not, it's not time off. It's like, from, from when you start work at, like, seven, till when you finish work, you just kind of end up being like, what should I do next? What do I do now? What do I do? And I know, and I know that you completely get it, because you obviously did it, but it's just kind of, People just always have, and I think blokes more, because women are a bit more clued up in general. Probably

not many men tend to do what you're doing. So actually most men, will just be doing what you were doing previously, whereas actually, you know, you're actually like time there involved is like the sole person, there's very little actually.

Yeah, and so, yeah, like, people ask me kind of, what am I doing my time off? And I'm like, mate, I don't get that much time where I can be like, This is what I'm good at. I'm, I'm trying so hard to build in some sort of sleep routine so I can have pockets around the place to just do minimal things. But yeah, it's not. So there's always this kind of expectation of you've just kind of got time off and that's not really, it's not really how it works. Yeah, Tilly's looking because we've got the baby on the monitor and she might be staring.

be staring. She looks pretty, pretty awake. And she

We're to pause and return.

duvet sneaking that mum is there. She's really thrashing. I think we're going to come I guess

Yeah. So I guess to round up before we move on to the next bit is I think the bit that I struggled a bit with, and I struggled with today as well. Is that I kind of wake up in the middle of the morning and I gear myself up in the morning to kind of try and stimulate her in the morning. Come back of lunch and then her have a nap and then it comes to lunch time and she just doesn't want to sleep. And then she's then just tetchy all afternoon and I'm also just kind of a bit dumb of it because I'm like, I've kind of tried to stimulate you all morning with the hope that you sleep and she's like, I don't really want to sleep. But she's tired. So she's in a tetchy in my kind of like, yeah, over it phase.

Also,

And so all I think is like just 17 and a half more years and she's at uni. Yeah,

I also think, as part of you, I think your temperament in a way, you're someone who quite quickly I don't know if it's sort of done with things, or you can at least, you can quite quickly, or like, maybe not quickly, but once you're done with something, you're done with it.

I'm trying to be a lot better at that.

and then you, I think often you can quite easily slip into sort of resentfulness.

wouldn't say resentful, uh, like currently. I get what you mean, but I wouldn't say that.

I can see, like sort of the way you're getting, like, in the evenings and things, you're just like, I think, how do I describe it, how do I best word it, I'm not trying not to offend you, because I'm not worried I don't think you're obviously offended, but yeah, no, I like that sort of

It's almost like you shouldn't record a podcast 15 minutes before you go to bed.

You're someone, and this is just in general, but this is obviously exemplified when you're tired and you have been doing a lot of stuff, but if you think someone is just like, things aren't quite fair, or you've done a bit too much, or,

I have to tell myself to get in my lane.

Then yeah, you kind of forget a bit like, why would I have to do this, you know. Um,

Yeah. I have to tell my ego to shut the fuck up.

think that's what's going to be hard for you. Because obviously you've actually gone most of our relationship, with arrived and, I've looked after you quite a lot.

Yeah.

You've felt pretty good,

Yeah.

you know, cooked your food, done the housework, washing, just generally quite cared for you. Because that's the, that's just, that's the, that's the thing. part of my character, not saying this because any flaw of yours and so I think that's, it's a massive adjustment to someone who's putting on sort of, not like weight on you, but like, you're fairly doted upon. Definitely

department. It's not that I can't do these things. Like I used to do them for me, but I haven't had to do long time. And so no, it's Yeah, that's the hard

And, you're having to do them to, Closer to my standards rather than your standards.

It's like,

Because you'd have to be living in a mess for quite a long time.

I'd like cleaner services once a month.

I'd be like,

You're like, I want them sprayed every day. I'm like, spray? What the fuck is spray? They're just gonna throw water around and whip a cloth about the place.

I don't even mind you doing that. But you still need to leave the sides really soggy. Like if we did it in a way that sort of dried it up. I honestly, I'm not, I'm not that GM of a paper that I would mind. As long as it looks clean, I'm like, fine. I don't really care about the germs. but I just go in there and there's like dripping surfaces, and you're like,

it'll evaporate, it's fine.

UK, not Africa.

Uh, so another factor actually I was

trying to

to settle her to go to sleep normal now, so we're recording this now, sans bebe, which is rare, usually with a baby attached to us. And so she's currently trying to sleep downstairs and so our intermission was trying to get her back to sleep.

she's Because we've co slept with her until now, really. Like, she's been

But we still can't go to sleep.

No, no, we do, that's what I'm saying. Like. Like, we have been trying to like, we have been transitioning her more into the next to me. So she'll often spend like, the first half of the night in the next to me, and then the second half's a bit of touch and go.

Yeah.

Whereas now we're sort of, we'd always go to bed together. So she might be the next to me, but we'd all go up together, to go to bed together, go To

To bed a tha. To bed a tha. To bed a bed a

said it too many times now.

Bed together.

Thank you. Whereas now we're putting her down, and then we're having like, we're attempting to have a bit of evening to ourselves. Basically it's, you know, it's very broken up because we keep having to get up and put, re putting her down, but. Sign that process and then tomorrow you're buying her a mattress. Pick her a mattress.

Yeah, we're just whacking her straight into a cot bed. We're not fanning about with all the different There's like seven different sizes that you can Well, there's not, there's four.

We just got the one that my sister gave us,

mood. Yeah, I know. Yep, that's because it's a cot bed. They stay in it till like three. Well, some say four, but looking at the length of Zoe, it's

Pops it up. It's fine. She'll be kicked out of her sibling anyway.

Yeah she's got that bed up in the loft that she can have.

is it actually full bed or just part of the bed? I'm Well, if not a dad can build a ward. So

So yeah, that's, that's being nice though. When, like, what tends to happen, is we put her down. Fifty minutes later she kind of wakes up and cries. You go back up, you settle her again, you put her down, and then she's kind of down.

Yeah,

So,

and then she tends to disturb once we go to bed, which makes me think I'm over the past week I've realized more and more that I think we're waking her up more than I think she'd actually sleep better without us once she was down

you'd still have those two breaks, but yeah,

Because I think like when we go to bed, or you know, we're rolling over or you're snoring or

yeah, I can't wait to be able to snore again.

I mean, I'm still there.

Ugh, get rid of you as well then.

You can go sleep in the cot. Me and Zoe will just stay in the bed.

bedroom house? I've got my baby in one bedroom, me in another bedroom, my wife in the other.

Yep. So I do think she will actually sleep quite well. Separate from us. Like, once we get her better at settling I think we should try putting her in a little sleep sack again.

I don't know if, she might be too long for it, but we can give it a go.

Also, we might be able to get a summer one soon. Like, you know, the other ones without the arms are just like a little wife beater sleeping bag.

The dream.

I think she'll like that because she obviously likes flailing her arms around quite a lot.

Yeah.

She's quite a blailer.

But like, the whole benefit is with their arms back there, they the large benefits. But you can get them when you zip on and off the arms, so we can give that a go.

Yeah. But otherwise for

But otherwise anything else you got to discuss for the week just go on.

work, didn't we, on Wednesday?

yeah, yeah, so, I think, I think in terms of highs, lows, funnies, that was, that was my high. I think it was very nice just to be able to, she, she was absolutely great the whole of Wednesday. Yeah, I know, but I don't know many people.

To start, it's been like, driving out to see your mum for a morning, or My

My mum's incredibly busy.

I mean? Like that sort of thing.

Speaking of which, Will's mum did say, Oh, you can just come round whenever you want. So I'll just start going round to

her, go see, go see Margaret. Yeah.

Yeah? I might just start doing that, yeah. How come your car's clocked up so much miles given that you're always working from home most of the time? Well, she's constantly on a baby tour.

she's off

Going round to other people's houses.

You can go see her and Lil. Jess is off on a Tuesday. You can go see Jess on Tuesdays. it's

A little tour. A little solar tour every week.

My dad's always free. Yeah.

The solar circus.

But it's quite a risk, and my granny, you can just see my dad and my granny in Rwanda.

yeah, so she was actually really great there. Do you have a high? Um,

yeah, I think my high was on Saturday, it was really nice weather. And when you were out with Will having some family free time.

so.

Me and Zoe. Had a nice time in the garden, sort of. I was like, we're trying to clear out our garden. No, we're not really doing it properly, are we? We're just trying to make it more usable, because currently it's just been a bit of a wasteland.

Yeah.

And we'd like Zoe to like, you know, play around in the grass and stuff in the summer. So we're sort of on a quick mini refurb, refresh of the garden. And so I was pulling loads of weeds and whatnot and clearing the edges down. She just sat there in her little sort of bouncer. That was really sweet because she'd never really, she's never felt grass before. And so she just has, you know, there's quite long grass. And so she had her feet in it. She's sort of swishing her feet in it, hanging out. And then sort of like, it's a completely new sensation for her. And then reaching down, trying to grab the grass as well. So that was really nice. That's quite sweet. She was having a whale of a time in her little cute little sun hat. And then, I bought a little rug, so I sat on the rug next to her. And I had a lolly while she sucked on a carrot. Yeah, it's just a nice little bit of time in the sunshine outdoors. She's always happy we're outdoors.

Yeah, way happier. Hence why, hence why so far I think my average steps has gone up about 200 percent since looking Because I'm just constantly like, okay, fuck this, out we go. Even though I didn't

the week. So your high was my, work day, on the Saturday. Yeah,

that much. My happiness.

I swear the woman told me it was Wednesday. Why? Well, if someone told me, I'm not going to bother looking it up as well. I much. I do care that you don't care for my my my happiness that much I do care about your happiness that much. My 'hahhinesss'.

We'll just have to go cinema and watch it together. I I think it's already stopped showing. I think it comes out in the sky anyway in like four weeks, three weeks time. I'll just make us some popcorn. You'll be fucking making more than that after that? Spooky. Yeah, and um, we

think you finally got a pretty nice breakfast and, slap up lunch.

our dessert, didn't we?

Oh yeah, from the weekend.

Yeah.

Yep, yep,

It was very tasty. Very tasty. The caramel peanut crunch. And my My low, I think, was that Monday that we discussed,

Yeah,

when just being pretty, pretty knackered and having to kind of,

I think Saturday night was quite low for you as well. I felt like you were pretty low Saturday night. After

What, after all the gardening, like a putz o'd,

Yeah, you're pretty, yeah,

yeah, I was pretty

pretty grumpy pants,

Yeah, a little bit.

I was like, you weren't even, you weren't awkward at all, you were nice and jolly in the morning, and you're still grumpy pants.

I didn't get to do all the basketball that I wanted to do, well, because there was so many fucking kids who were like, oh, can I play with you?

you went to posh one, you gotta

Yeah, I know. Well, we haven't tried out the Henley Court. You can't just tell rich middle class Henley kids, Fuck off, you cunt, I wanna play basketball. Especially when there's only one hoop. Whereas here, there's like, two to four hoops. So you can just be like, no, this is my one. Whereas there's only one hoop in the whole of Henley.

even two, like one at each end of a

Nope. There's just one hoop in the middle of a fucking field.

don't

It's nearly as Lambo one. The only difference is there's asphalt up to the hoop. So the Lambo one is just fucking grass. That's atrocious. But the, but yeah, you miss it. It rolls down the hill in the field and you've got to like, chase after your ball before it ends up fucking in the Thames or some shit. Surreal. So I won't be playing there again. Wasted time. Yeah. Yeah. And don't forget the Rambo knife I found. Yeah.

broken chairs.

Broken chairs, yeah, yeah, and beer bottles and glass, just general, you know, remnants. so yeah, I was a bit annoyed about that. I was I wanted to play basketball and do this stuff, and then it's a really good plan, and then came back, and I was, I was, I was more in the mood to do our national trust. But then I saw the time, and I was like, there's no point driving an hour, it being like the end of Easter, and so it'd be rammed, because National

be random discussions. You'd think

you'd think we should have. I just tend to find that if you don't get there early, it seems to be full. No?

since we've had 11

Oh yeah, I guess, but it seems to be kind of, 11 till 1 is the, probably more like half 10 till. Half two is the really busy time. Yeah, yeah, I think in hindsight you're right. I just assumed it'd just be absolutely packed, so I just couldn't be bothered with screaming kids at the end of Easter and parents just trying to

mean there's never that many kids at a National Trust.

I think Easter, surely not, maybe not.

No.

Anyway, so we did the National Trust on Sunday instead and did all the gardening on Saturday and I just wasn't Yeah, I wasn't really ready to do all the gardening, but I just tried to crack on and do it anyway. But then it meant that I was pretty checked out by the evening.

Mm hmm.

by the evening. And,

And then you asked me to dinner because Pops was on me.

you were telling me that the pork was gonna die. Well, it was already dead. That it was gonna go off.

didn't. I said, I said it is a day past its, a day past its Elbow Day, which is true. I thought it was meant

No, that's not true.

was the 30th, Saturday the

No, I then told you that after I cooked

But I,

cooked it on the day of it, side by day.

before that, before you said that, I was like, you could put it in the freezer if you want, you can't bother it, and you went, no, no, I'm going to cook it.

Yeah, I'm glad I did. It's really nice, I just didn't fucking wanna kick it that evening.

Okay, so it was on you, I gave you a get out of jail free card, and you chose still to do So I ain't taking any of your little bitching.

ha, ha. Uh, Okay, Bye. I'll just take my bitch and elsewhere. Someone who's more receptive.

Oh my god, it's past nine o'clock.

Yeah, well let's wrap this up. Okay, what was your Do you have a low? Have done your low?

I think in general, I just worked too long like I said earlier in the evenings last week and so just generally the collectiveness of just not feeling like we had much evening and it was a bit

So my funny was on Friday. This was You didn't, if you remember, I took her out for a bath after we did the weaning.

And

Now this was, no, did it, was it before? No, it was after,

was before,

it was after the sun cream, because we covered her in sun cream for me to get by her sun hat, and are you right there?

my nose. Ha

Okay.

ha ha ha ha

And so we then decided that we had to wash her off because we like rubbed it in her hair, because her hair is pretty thin. And she didn't have any, anything to go over her head. That was what we were doing, going to buy a sun hat. And so when I came back to wash her, and then put her in the bathtub, and, you know, I called you up, but before that, so, I had, I was trying to put her in the bucket thing. Well, first she was in the seat, in the bucket, but, but the seats, The bucket's too small for the

It isn't.

Yeah, so I took her out and I kind of worked out that I could put my hand underneath her bottom And that way she could sit in the tub because the problem is more that she like falls this way or falls that way But if you've got your hand there, you can kind of keep keep her roughly stable But then she let out this absolutely massive fart all over my hand I was like, oh no,

she

as she sharted on my hand, so I pulled my hand out to check and then she just went, splat, straight in the water. So there wasn't any poo on my hand and I had to quickly write her and she just came up like really startled, eyes flickering everywhere. I was like, well that, phew, I didn't get shit on my hand and she, she, sometimes that she really kicks off from it, but she just kind of looked a bit worried and then went back on playing with her toys.

played with

Definitely helps to have toys in a bath.

the most funny

So yeah, that was my funny, her, well, me thinking she'd shouted on my hand, pulling my hand away and then finding out that she, and then her just sploshing her face in the water. top

I think I generally just find it, really funny that, when she's, she's obviously figured out. my boobs are here, and even when it's closed over them, my boobs are still there. starts to start clawing at my top, she's like, she pulls my top down, sort of pulls down, sort of looks, tries to look down, sort of looks down at my boobs like that. Which is quite funny now, so she's like a little bit of a perv which is sometimes she's, I'm sure she's not, but sometimes it looks like she's trying to fiddle with like the clippy bit of my maternity bra, she's like sort of clamping at it. Yeah, and she does like real like She sort of semi milks my boob now, doesn't she Yeah. Sometimes she does a double hander. She sort of pulls it into her, like, pulls it into her mouth. Sometimes

And sometimes you can see her like Clamping on, basically milking it. She'll just grab some of your, your boob, And then squeeze it

just really gently strokes my boob, sort of. She brushes it like this,

foreplay before the clamping

down. Get

Yeah, get, get it warmed up. Get it ready for the clamping.

And then grab the nipple! Get the nipple

Give me more! Let down! Let down! Alrighty, do you want

So yeah, this one was painful, quite That's me done

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Okay, here we go. The shitty work day. This Oh, wait, no

shitty

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the shitty work day by Erin T, mum of three, on Honest. com. Probably the worst was when my baby had a massive blowout right before I was leaving for work. Poop all up his back, into his hair, leaking out the sides of the diaper, so he needed a bath and I needed to change my shirt. I realise till halfway through my work day that I had a stream of poop down my pant leg that I had missed in all the madness.

all ha

Oh, that'd be rough. Okay. So Jessica T, mum of two.

number two. Yeah, you

Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to be outnumbered. Anyway, you never forget your first. When I was a first time mum, I was on my way back to a mummy and me class, which was already daunting since getting out of the house was hard enough. When I finally get to class and go to bed, Pull the baby out of the car seat. She had not only blown out of her diaper, but it was all over the car. The mummy and me instructor looked at me in shock and asked how she could help. I could already see it in her eyes, but she told me it was the worst blow she'd ever seen. The poop was everywhere. It was up her front, up her back, and all over the car seat. I wouldn't be surprised if there was even some on the roof of the car. I was so embarrassed and sad. And felt like an unsuccessful first time up. But was thankful for the group around me gathering together to clean up my baby girl and her surroundings. Nothing bonds a group of mums like a bad blowout. Okay, you Is that fast enough you? Now, if you could try not to yawn in these, that'd be great.

No, I've got one coming, I can feel it rising. I can feel one coming. When we had our first son, my wife and I were totally clueless. We spent 30 minutes pondering whether or not we had him in a car seat properly at the hospital.

going to read the title of the person, I'm

G Wiz, it's

Alright, so what's on again?

just read it.

fine.

For the first couple of months, he kept having pee leaks around his stomach. It wasn't all

Pee leaks around his stomach? Is that me?

coming out of his stomach.

Oh, I see,

think it's just like pee coming out of his stomach,

Oh, yeah, it's like,

It wasn't all the time, but enough that we were wondering why. We brought it up to the pediatrician. She asked if we'd point it out. I know.

on? you too tired to

We bought it up at the pediatrician and she asked if we'd point it down. We both looked at each other wondering what she meant when suddenly it clicked, for me at least, to point my little guy's little guy down. Seen such an obvious conclusion after we were told and since babies, or diapers that matter, don't come with those types of instruction manuals I always tell first time parents of boys to point that thing down. They get Michael G, dad of two.

fucking obvious, especially from a dad.

I just don't think it's what you think about, I think you're just beautiful enough, you wouldn't need to fold down The willy then, don't do it. I'm

old rules. the head of the boy, right out of the then see what boy he is. And

a boy

course, see what other changes that, that lead you to

can be a danger zone if you are quick. Each boy had multiple to two diapers. I said multiple times, especially when it's cold, when the little guys would know exactly when the diaper wasn't there, and close and choose that specific moment to begin releasing.

these.

It must be some kind of prank to them. They would always giggle as pee splattered everywhere.

as

But As a parent, you know that you need to leave the house ten minutes ago and have no time to clean, and do a wardrobe change, That already took you 15 minutes to find that matching sock the first time. Who's a show up matching socks? Not me. I learned early on that rushing the preparation of the diaper change is a foolish mistake. Always have the next diaper undone and ready to put on the little one. As soon as that sole diaper is off, you better have the new diaper or wipe ready to cover up. Also, as time goes on, you will know the face of the baby mate right before they release. Study this face. You have a split second of what could be a matter of life or death, alright? Chill out, it's a bit of a

this going? Okay, this is

Oh, oh,

funny.

no, we're done now.

No, no, come on, those were rubbish. Okay, last one. If it's shit, it's shit. Try and read a bit ahead and don't fall asleep

That's just the instructions.

it. Okay.

That's done now. We're done.

Okay, fine. Well guys, we resign. We forfeit.

Yeah.

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