things nobody tells you when you have a baby, but should

here are a few things I’ve discovered because of my little one, that I didn’t understand before. some of them probably make sense, and some of them you’ve probably heard before, but you don’t really understand them until you have a baby yourself.

  1. giving birth is traumatic for everybody (especially the father, and orders of magnitude more so if it’s your first one (or so it seems))
  2. always put a clean diaper underneath the dirty one BEFORE you open it
  3. immobile babies are WAAAAY better easier than mobile ones
  4. teething sucks
  5. shot day sucks
  6. constipation sucks
  7. vacuums suck, and are a necessity (sorry, had to do it =) )
  8. nothing smells worse than day old formula… except for maybe day old diapers.
  9. there is no mute button Continue reading “things nobody tells you when you have a baby, but should”