What Sort of Mum ...

[summerluven]

I didn't have any pre-conceived notions really, so I guess there was nothing to live up to. I knew about the sleep deprivation etc because I read it everywhere and plenty of friends had babies before me, so I had heard a fair bit about the not-so-fun side of motherhood.

I am a fairly easy-going, almost lazy person, and I think that my parenting style is the same. Not to the detriment of the child of course, but if he wakes up and is being hard to resettle, I just get him out of bed. I curse myself for doing it, but I am not surprised that I am doing because I don't have much patience for 'standards' and people telling me 'babies should do this at x age and this at y age".

[Rach75]

I am finding it a lot easy than I thought, gathered ( dont shoot me) I have a very relaxed easy going child (most of the time) I do find myself being a bit of a food nazi etc but every mother does that I suppose

the one thing I find very surprising but something I am very proud of is, I now stand up for myself when it comes to matters concerning Jack I have made it to 13 1/2 mths with only Jase and I giving him a bottle, made it to 12 mths with only us bathing him or giving him any solids, these were important to me, I couldn't b/f so only jase and I feeding him a bottle was and still is a big thing for me, so I am extremely proud to say I have stuck to my guns even with the -- comments onthis issue

all in all I am happy with hwo I become and my parenting style