“Forgot baby at home”
Honest stories from the puerperium
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The first time with the baby – an exciting and at the same time nerve-wracking phase. Here women honestly report their craziest experiences.
After the first few days with the baby, probably every mom thinks: Wow, nobody told me that before !. The first time in the puerperium is an exciting getting to know each other, but it is also accompanied by many surprises. The users who were in the Urbia forum Honestly shared about the crazy things that happened to them in their puerperium.
Childbirth stories
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Put it in your mouth!
“My daughter was just a few weeks old and was breastfed. Since she always drank way too much, half of it always came out upstairs. You could move them 5 times a day. My brother then came to visit in the afternoon. He rocked and threw the bag in the air, as he always did. Every time I said to him: Better leave it, she just ate. Well, he didn’t hear and said, everything is fine. Then he held her up. She liked He held her directly over his head, she laughed, he laughed and in the next moment she really spat. Stupidly, my brother had his mouth open … In the future he was much more cautious. “
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Be careful when brushing your teeth!
“I’ve already got toothpaste on his head. Brushing his teeth while the child sleeps in the stretcher is not that easy.”
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Oops, forget something!
“When our second son was 3 weeks old, I wanted to go in the afternoon to go to Grandma’s. Ok, packed diaper bag, shouted to big brother that he should put on shoes, quickly turned off the dryer and went to the toilet again … ok ready. Big man comes crashing down the stairs, runs up again because he has forgotten something. Meanwhile, I catch the dog who wanted to smuggle himself into the car again. Put the little man in the Maxi-Cosi and briefly on the Couch parked. Quick out again in the yard, because the dog was already back in the car. Big son is sitting in the car and waiting. I put the dog in, the door closed and in the car … Before I drove off, take a deep breath and uuuuaahhh the baby is still inside. I went in, there he lay slumbering and very relaxed in the Maxi-Cosi. That’ll never happen to me again! “
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A bathroom for two
“The child, just four weeks old, has pooped in completely. My husband unpacks it from the body and carries it into the bathroom, holding it far from him. I trot after him while he taps on how it is,” in the shit ..to sit, ”and gives the child new nicknames, all of which contain the word“ poop. ”I giggle and choke between two nicknames:“ Stop it, otherwise I’ll have to pee. ”He laughs, doesn’t take me seriously and 10 seconds later I’m standing in front of him in soaking wet pants, urine running down my legs and a puddle forming at my feet while I’m still giggling but crying at the same time. The child and I then bathed together after I did had dried my tears. And that was kind of nice in the end. “
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Cuddle with surprise
“Cuddle your baby skin to skin, they said. Put it on your chest wearing only a diaper, they said. What nobody told you? Don’t do that with a Speikind right after breastfeeding. Because then it can happen that you both shower in fresh and partially digested milk. If you then pour the bottle of breastfeeding tea over the sofa in the hustle and bustle and only notice it when you are back after cleaning the child … Then the chaos of the puerperium is perfect. “
Most of you know that
Hands up, who of you had to smile at these stories? Maybe something like this has happened to you before or you know a mother who felt the same way !?
Nobody is perfect – not even mom!
The mothers who just can’t stop raving about the first time with the baby? Breastfeeding goes smoothly, they always get enough sleep at night to be fit in the morning, and the baby hardly ever cries. It goes without saying that you quickly fall into the trap of envy. It is important to look behind the facade when making statements like this. Perfectionists can hardly stand it when their life seems like a mess. All the more they gloss over the first time with the offspring. The truth usually looks very different too. Sure, there are babies who are less strenuous than others. And some women may also find motherhood a little easier than their friends. But a stress-free postpartum period is more than utopian. We therefore applaud the women who talked Tacheles here. So that it becomes clear to us mothers once more: We are not alone with our problems!
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