14 things you did for your 1st child but won’t do again for the 2nd (and even less for the 3rd)

The “unnecessary” things you won’t do for your 2nd child …

1. Use a nasal aspirator

Frankly, this instrument of torture is useless. What’s more, it hasn’t stopped your child from having billions of colds last winter.

2. And a baby monitor …

For your first child, you even invested in a video baby monitor to scrutinize his every move. Looking back, you realized that this object was not really very useful, especially given the geographical distance between your room and that of your children.

3. Take your Baby cook on vacation

Especially if the vacation only lasts a few days. Why waste time transporting the baby robot, then making purees, when you can find very good little jars in supermarkets.

4. Run to the doctor as soon as he or she has 38 ° C fever

And to hear this eternal sentence: “It is surely a virus, madam, it is necessary to wait a few days. Am I prescribing Doliprane? “. Grrrh, now we’re actually waiting a few days.

5. Get out of the park

Knowing that no child wants to stay there more than 5 minutes (at least not those I know). And what’s more, when it comes to living room decor, we’re doing better. 

6. Wash bottles by hand

Come to think of it, what a funny idea. What is the dishwasher for?

7. Use a bottle warmer

It’s best to use it of course, but sometimes it’s so much quicker and more convenient to put the bottle in the microwave. Be careful, however, of burns.

8. Systematically change the diaper after the bottle or the night’s feed

The gesture that has the gift of waking you out of sleep for good if you weren’t already. Either way, your child will wake up again in 4 hours to eat. So, except in the event of a big commission, or a really very heavy layer, is it really useful to change it? Come on… yes!

9. Brush your teeth as soon as the first quenotte appears

“As soon as a baby has a tooth, it needs to be brushed,” your doctor told you. So you obediently complied, sometimes wondering if you were not ridiculous polishing that tiny quenotte. For Baby 2, you will wait …

10. Prohibit television before 3 years

Allow television for your 4 and a half year old elder and prohibit it for your 2 year old… it’s just impossible! Unless you decide to lock one in the bedroom and the other in the living room. A not very nice option.

11. Take a nap at the same time as him

When you have only one child, you can sometimes consider taking a nap at the same time as him or her. With two toddlers, not always set to the same pace, it turns out to be more complicated.

12. Wash it necessarily every day

While honestly, skipping a bath once in a while never killed anyone.

13. Be adamant about vegetables

During their first two years, your first child ate only fresh vegetables. The day he discovered fries, you told yourself that you shouldn’t have waited so long …

14. Weigh meat and fish

No more than 10 grams the first year, is it written in the health book. So you carefully weighed meat and fish. For your second baby, you’ve thrown in the scales. Phew!

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