Mating Season Over - or on going

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Slava

I didn't feel useless, but obviously I didn't really do anything except watch (from the head end would be my strong suggestion!). For us, things went totally fine and I just tried to relax and take it all in. Then when it was time I just cut the cord, which was pretty cool.

The weirdest part or the part where it really hit home that I was a father is when we were driving home for the first time. It was kind of like "oh my god, I am taking my child home with me" or something like that. Just really hit me at that point I guess. Like suddenly you're driving home as a family where in the hospital it was different because you were out of your element anyway, so there was kind of no impact if that makes any sense.

When it hit me was when it was time to leave the hospital. We were waiting in the room for permission to leave with the baby for like an hour after being discharged. Then it donned on us that it was our baby and we could just take it whenever we wanted. Up until that point, it kind of felt like it was the hospital's baby.

[MRCboicgy]

Could we please keep the thread on its original topic discussion....

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

Could we please keep the thread on its original topic discussion....

Isn't it?

[FireFly]

I would like to have a boy but not necessarily as an heir for my husband. I would in fact like at least one of each. Husband already has one daughter and I strongly suspect this one is a girl so undoubtedly, we will be having another at some point although it's a bit too early to say that decisively.

I think my husband is actually terrified of the prospect of having a mini-him. He was not the most well-behaved child and no matter what I tell him about us being different parents than his parents were, he still believes that we will have a ginger version of him and it will be hell for both of us.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by FireFly

I would like to have a boy but not necessarily as an heir for my husband. I would in fact like at least one of each. Husband already has one daughter and I strongly suspect this one is a girl so undoubtedly, we will be having another at some point although it's a bit too early to say that decisively.

I think my husband is actually terrified of the prospect of having a mini-him. He was not the most well-behaved child and no matter what I tell him about us being different parents than his parents were, he still believes that we will have a ginger version of him and it will be hell for both of us.

I don't have kids yet. as mentioned, but I find girls a lot easier to hang out with. My sister has 2 girls and when I look after them, it usually involves an afternoon of being a Brony, making snacks, doing art, organizing rock collections, and sweet stuff like that. My wife's sister has 4 boys, and an afternoon with them usually involves getting shot point blank with toy guns, cleaning up spills, making lists of things that I will need to fix after they leave, cleaning pee from around the toilet. Don't get me wrong, I know that I would love either just the same, but having a boy scares me a little. Of course, having a teen girl even scares me more...lol.

I hate to admit it though, but I do find myself somewhat indoctrinated with the idea that I should produce a male child to carry on the family name. Not that I necessarily want a boy more than a girl, but I almost feel obligated being the last one in our family able to do it. If we have a girl, I will just have to get her to break that archaic tradition I guess!

[V]

Originally Posted by FireFly

I think my husband is actually terrified of the prospect of having a mini-him. He was not the most well-behaved child and no matter what I tell him about us being different parents than his parents were, he still believes that we will have a ginger version of him and it will be hell for both of us.

I am told that the son who drives me the most crazy by far is the one that takes after me the most. My other two boys are more like their mother, so I deal with them easier.

[troutman]

Amy Poehler has a funny and touching story about giving birth in Yes Please. She gave birth the same night she was supposed to be on SNL. Her baby doctor died that week too.

[Tron_fdc]

When did everyone move their kids out of cribs? I'm curious.

My daughter has jumped a few times, and she's 16 months.

Crazy how toddlers spend their day coming up with new and exciting ways to kill/maim themselves.

[Drury18]

My kid was out at 13 months. Climbing out of the crib was a nightly thing and I couldn't sleep worried about safety. We had a temporary in between before getting her a toddler bed at probably 15 or 16 months and then putting up bed rails like this: http://www.toysrus.ca/product/index....uctId=15449856 Kept her in the bed and safe. Ended up using those rails until about 6 years old as she is a VERY active sleeper and would roll out of bed. Probably one of the few "baby things" that actually lasted any length of time.

There really isn't a one size fits all answer for moving out of the crib. I felt that if they could climb out and it was becoming regular and not just "hey look what I can do" occasionally, it was time to be out. Yes, she didn't stay in bed initially because hey, it's freedom, but she quickly learned quiet play and you could hear her playing a little with her stuffies and then going to sleep much like she did in the crib.

[Slava]

I can't recall when exactly, but really when the kid is climbing out every night, whats the point of keeping them in there? I put a hook and eye latch on the door and just made sure the room was safe. I just figured that was safer and really their room ought to be safe for them anyway.

[ToraToraTora]

Baby Watch at the ToraToraTora household continues. Kind of thought this weekend, but no dice.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by ToraToraTora

Baby Watch at the ToraToraTora household continues. Kind of thought this weekend, but no dice.

Best thing about waiting for labour is working to induce labour.......enjoy.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Best thing about waiting for labour is working to induce labour.......enjoy.

By going for walks and drinking raspberry tea? I can think of a million things I'd rather be doing...

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Slava

By going for walks and drinking raspberry tea? I can think of a million things I'd rather be doing...

you are doing it wrong.

[tete]

kermitology, is your wife on the Calgary AP facebook group? A Posey was born a couple of weeks ago to a mama on the group, thought it was a unique and cute name.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Do (or did) any of the males here ever feel pressure (societal or biological) to have a male "heir" to carry on the family line?

I saw it a little bit after the fact, in terms on my Surnames Lineage.

My Great Grandpa had 2 sons.
My Great uncle only had Daughters.
My Grandpa had 2 sons
My Dad and his brother combined for 3 sons.
Between the 3 of us I was the first to have a son.

And after the realization that my son was the first of 16 grandchildren that would carry on the surname My Grandpa was pretty happy about it.

[bc-chris]

Originally Posted by ToraToraTora

Baby Watch at the ToraToraTora household continues. Kind of thought this weekend, but no dice.

make the trip to kelowna for a stuffed burger at my place

my burgers are 2 for 2 with inducing labour in under 24 hours after consumption

[ToraToraTora]

Originally Posted by bc-chris

make the trip to kelowna for a stuffed burger at my place

my burgers are 2 for 2 with inducing labour in under 24 hours after consumption

I kind of want one too though, and I don't want to go into labour...

[troutman]

Carrying on the family name - how common now is that children have hyphenated last names?

Ex. Nugent-Hopkins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-barrelled_name

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/fa...anted=all&_r=0

The problem, of course, is that this naming practice is unsustainable. (Growing up, I constantly fielded the question, “What will you do if you marry someone else with two last names? Will your kids have four names?”) Like many of the baby boomers’ utopian impulses, it eventually had to run up against practical constraints.

http://www.todaysparent.com/pregnanc...lds-last-name/

According to data collected by the Vital Statistics offices in British Columbia, Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Nova Scotia (the other provinces and territories were unable to provide this info), the trend to give children their father’s surname is still strong. With the exception of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, where only 59 percent and 35 percent of children, respectively, are given their father’s surname, a whopping majority of kids (more than 80 percent) in British Columbia, Alberta and Nova Scotia are still named after dad.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by troutman

Carrying on the family name - how common now is that children have hyphenated last names?

Ex. Nugent-Hopkins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-barrelled_name

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/fa...anted=all&_r=0

The problem, of course, is that this naming practice is unsustainable. (Growing up, I constantly fielded the question, “What will you do if you marry someone else with two last names? Will your kids have four names?”) Like many of the baby boomers’ utopian impulses, it eventually had to run up against practical constraints.

http://www.todaysparent.com/pregnanc...lds-last-name/

According to data collected by the Vital Statistics offices in British Columbia, Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Nova Scotia (the other provinces and territories were unable to provide this info), the trend to give children their father’s surname is still strong. With the exception of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, where only 59 percent and 35 percent of children, respectively, are given their father’s surname, a whopping majority of kids (more than 80 percent) in British Columbia, Alberta and Nova Scotia are still named after dad.

These are statistics that might be skewed by cultural differences. I'd like to see the data with cases where the mother and father have the same last name (presumably by the mother taking the father's last name in marriage) removed. Of course, that would still have it's flaws. it just seems like places where higher percentages of children are born into marriages would affect the statistics.