Some of the things making our lives easier

When we told people we were expecting a baby, the amount of people that congratulated us was huge, however soon enough congratulations turn into opinions and people’s own experiences, which as some fathers will know becomes rather tiring, fairly quickly. This being said no doubt we will begin giving our opinions and our thoughts when our friends tell us they are pregnant and no doubt they will become tired of our opinions fairly quickly. We may have got annoyed from time to time but in all honesty everyone meant well and were just giving us helpful advice, which we appreciated, even if we did ignore most of it.

Advice from parents who’s children had already grown up, moved out and started a family of their own was the least helpful to say the least, but that was due to the age that we are living in. Things that were the norm for them had now changed and things that were frowned upon in their day is hailed as the best thing in today’s society. In a couple of years the things we have been told will no doubt be wrong and will have changed or reverted back to the old days.

I wanted to share some of things that we had bought or been given that had helped us with the pregnancy, preparing for the arrival of the little one and things we are using on a day to day basis that is making our lives easier. These are our opinions so please do not feel that I am forcing them on you, I just wanted to let people know what these products were like.

Some things I’ve picked up that wasn’t my daughter.

I’ve always been a visual person when it comes to learning, picking up things quicker if there is an element of physical activity. Reading to learn or remember something always was hardest for me, unless it was a book that actually interested me then it rarely stuck in my head. So for me learning was more about doing than studying, and fatherhood is definitely a learn as you go full time job.

You can read all the books you like on how to raise a baby, you can watch all the YouTube videos you want and you can listen to the parents down at the nursery till they are blue in the face, but it doesn’t change the fact that all this raising a small being is a learning curve we must handle head on with both hands and possible feet as well.

So even though she is only two weeks old, here are a few things I have learned over these fourteen days.