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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 729885" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>Before I had my first child at 31, I had held an infant twice for about one minute each time, had never changed a diaper, fed or burped a baby. I had one sibling, 2 years younger, and never babysat for kids that weren't potty trained.</p><p></p><p>I was very nervous with my first. He was a few weeks earlier and SO tiny. I was afraid I would break him. I was too nervous to even cut his nails. In fact, H handled nail cutting and temperature taking for all 5 kids as those were things I just could not bring myself to do. I did get better at changing, dressing, burping, feeding etc but I never got the hang of nail cutting. I remember my mother in law wanted to take oldest boy's temperature rectally once and I threatened to call the police! He was too young for an oral thermometer and the underarm, forehead and digital ones didn't exist yet. I locked myself and the baby in the bathroom until H got home. I didn't think the thermometer was necessary - it was obvious to me the baby had a fever. H disagreed and he took the temperature, rectally, while I cried. I think I was the first person to buy the ear thermometer when it came out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 729885, member: 3493"] Before I had my first child at 31, I had held an infant twice for about one minute each time, had never changed a diaper, fed or burped a baby. I had one sibling, 2 years younger, and never babysat for kids that weren't potty trained. I was very nervous with my first. He was a few weeks earlier and SO tiny. I was afraid I would break him. I was too nervous to even cut his nails. In fact, H handled nail cutting and temperature taking for all 5 kids as those were things I just could not bring myself to do. I did get better at changing, dressing, burping, feeding etc but I never got the hang of nail cutting. I remember my mother in law wanted to take oldest boy's temperature rectally once and I threatened to call the police! He was too young for an oral thermometer and the underarm, forehead and digital ones didn't exist yet. I locked myself and the baby in the bathroom until H got home. I didn't think the thermometer was necessary - it was obvious to me the baby had a fever. H disagreed and he took the temperature, rectally, while I cried. I think I was the first person to buy the ear thermometer when it came out. [/QUOTE]
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