For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 09, 2014

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    thirdguy  about 10 years ago

    no argument here,

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    ORMouseworks  about 10 years ago

    Actually, breast-feeding a baby is far better than giving her/him formula… ;)

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    thirdguy  about 10 years ago

    Don’t hate me, but our first slept through the night from her 3rd night home on. Our 2nd was such a pain, she took a whole week.

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    artybee  about 10 years ago

    I was a better baby dad with the first one than the second. We stopped at two for some reason.

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    Spotted Owl  about 10 years ago

    Congratulations, it sounds as though you have a lovely family MayKitten.

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    Aaberon  about 10 years ago

    (Trying not to chuckle too loudly…)

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    Aaberon  about 10 years ago

    You’re right, How! I had a plastic child and was smart enough from day-1 to realize it and appreciate it. Therefore, I did not do a repeat and risk getting a messed up one the second time around.

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    beyondnow777  about 10 years ago

    That’s nothing. My first litter was sextuplets. Then three months later I had septuplets, including one still-born. All before I was two years old.

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    She Mc  about 10 years ago

    Not the husband snoring!!!

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    ladykat  about 10 years ago

    My daughter was very colicky AND she did not want to suckle on either me or a bottle. For feeding, my mother and I made a very dilute mix of formula and baby cereal and dribbled some in her mouth every time she yelled. For the colic, I paced the floor with her for about 6 weeks and averaged 2 hours sleep. First hubby wanted nothing to do with her because she was a girl, just one of the many reasons we split up a few months after she was born.

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    Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member about 10 years ago

    We had five, and from my perspective it’s by far the best…also less stinky poop!!

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    tripwire45  about 10 years ago

    Um..breast pump and bottled breast milk and suddenly Daddy shares in the feeding.

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    gmforde  about 10 years ago

    Just wait until the baby starts teething….

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    platechick  about 10 years ago

    you sound like a huge jerk

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    JanLC  about 10 years ago

    Duck, it sounds like you had a pair of children who were out of the ordinary. Most babies do sleep at least three hours at a time, and usually more. I’m sorry you had such a bad experience, and yes, based on that experience, Jean is very lucky (and so was I).

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    JanLC  about 10 years ago

    Lynn’s Notes:

    In my next life, I’m coming back as a man.

    By the time that happens, they’ll figure out how to make men do all the work.

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    tlr1398  about 10 years ago

    In reading the colicky comments, when our five came along (one at a time, thank goodness), I was advised by my grandmother to warm a hand towel in the microwave and put it on their stomach, then hold them firmly against me. It worked. It loosened their stomach muscles, and the colic lessened dramatically. Rocking them while holding them helped too.

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    potrerokid  about 10 years ago

    Hope you’re saving lots of money for all those weddings!!!!!

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    potrerokid  about 10 years ago

    Why bother??

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    ORMouseworks  about 10 years ago

    My son slept through the night by the time he was one month old. Before that it was every three hours around the clock… Didn’t think I was going to survive that!

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    ORMouseworks  about 10 years ago

    WOW! All those girls!!! And one poor brother having to deal with all his sisters…LOL! ;)

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    ORMouseworks  about 10 years ago

    Re: being free of children (which it sounds like you are)…at least both of you agreed to do so! Sometimes one wants to and the other doesn’t…makes a bit of a nasty mess. Sounds like you enjoy each other! ;)

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    feefers_  11 months ago

    Yup

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