There are lots of things about being pregnant that people don’t warn you about.
You hear about all the usual symptoms – extreme fatigue, all day sickness, food aversions and weird cravings.
But while people constantly tell you to “sleep now, while you can” and to “enjoy binge watching TV while it lasts,” they forget to tell you about the long and painful stretch that is between 13 weeks and 20 weeks.
The time when you (most likely) can’t feel your baby move, no one stands for you on public transport because you look bloated rather than pregnant and worst of all, the scans dry up. It can leave you wondering, “Is this actually happening?”
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So in order to distract myself I decided to start reading up on baby products, to look forward to what I might need, and utilise this time that I’m apparently meant to enjoy – the second trimester!
It took about five minutes for me to learn it’s a jungle out there. Between the prams that cost as much as my first car, to breast pumps, cots, clothes, snot apparatuses (yes apparently they’re a thing) it’s enough to make your head spin.
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I have a lazy boy recliner/ rocking chair in my sons bedroom. I didn’t use it for feeding but it was a lifesaver for the nights our son wouldn’t sleep on his. If we sit in the chair and rock most of the time he would sleep... for the really bad nights we couldn’t put him down we could recline and sleep there too.
We also have a riff raff toy 💜💜💜
I'm a dad, not a mum - but I can tell you that oh my GOD BUY THE BEST THERMOMETER YOU CAN AFFORD. The type they use in clinics with just a few seconds in the outer ear are just over a hundred dollars and they are a worthwhile investment; especially in the earlier, squirmy years. Even now when we take our teenaged children to the doctor we get asked if they've been running fevers, what their temperature has been the last few days etc.
It may seem like a lot of money when you can pick up electronic thermometers for as little as $20 but those don't last and you try keeping one under the tongue of an infant for the requisite 60 seconds. I stumped up for a decent one after multiple broken cheapies and haven't looked back.
You're 100% right with this, no one (especially little ones) want to wait with a thermometer under arm/tongue especially when you're feeling crap!