From when you PG to when you actually had your baby did how you handle situations differ regarding yoru baby?

For me it did. When I was PG I always said the baby wouldnt sleep in my room at all and we would definitly not co-sleep at all. Well the minute he came home he was in a bassinet for 3 months in our room and a few times the past 2 months he has slept with us because it was the only way to get him back to sleep because he teeth were bothering so bad. People did tell me that it will all change once I had him but I didnt believe it. Sometimes I want to give advise on how it might change but then I dont want to seem negative because the people I know who are pg are with their first and I dont want to ruin it for them. Anyone else feel like this?

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Oh please, I thought I knew it all before having Ava! And the best part is, that I would tell myself that I didn't know it all, but looking back, I guess I really did think I knew it all. Did that make sense? I think, in general, I was just so silly to think that if I wanted things to be one way that they would actually go as planned!

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Plenty of things. I, too, refrain from trying to tell new parents to be how "it will be" because I hardly know everything and I dislike when people think they should dispense advice just because they've done it before me. But many many things - and the list continues as the kids get older

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I was the biggest "Never let your children sleep in your bed person" before I became a Mom. Fast forward three years and we are still a co-sleeping family. What works for some, doesn't work for others. Co-sleeping works wonderful for us.

I don't think there is a woman out there that didn't change her mind about certain things once motherhood became a reality

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I think parenthood was the biggest eye opener to how flexible those pre-baby plans I set in stone were.

Re: From when you PG to when you actually had your baby did how you handle situations differ regarding yoru baby?

The only thing that I can think of that changed was that she had a binkie for the first 3 months (she weaned herself) and that I wasn't able to breastfeed and I really wanted too. Past that I can't think of too much. My DH was admant about not co-sleeping and we never did. We said we wouldn't spank and we haven't. I am not sure.