https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:39:51 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563741 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:55:57 +0000 birdofafeather 1563741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>not a 180, but things definitely got clearer for me once she was here and we are still figuring out her personality, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563704 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:30:58 +0000 daniellemybelle 1563704@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Totally. I thought I would be sleep training in the hospital, haha, and while I am pro-CIO, I have really struggled with it &amp; I have been much more lenient than I thought I would be, cosleeping &amp; so forth.</p> <p>I'm sure as she gets older, examples will continue to arise! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563596 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:35:07 +0000 MamaMoose 1563596@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh yeah. I totally thought I was in the CIO camp before I had a baby... and now that she's here I've never been able to bring myself to do it.</p> <p>I think you see it a lot here. Particularly the other way, people who are pregnant who think they are going to be really into attachment parenting and then it turns out not to be that way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563562 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:16:08 +0000 Cherrybee 1563562@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@anonysquire: My baby OWNS me. I'm going to give her the moon on a stick and still strive to give her more. I never, evet thought I'd be like this but I am! So there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563550 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:06:47 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 1563550@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Eh...plenty of time to change your mind if you want. We should revisit this thread in about 18 months... :P</p> <p>@Bao: I was actually the opposite, thinking I would be totally accommodating because that's how I grew up. Now I just let him go to bed hungry and he ends up eating a ginormous breakfast the next day. Less stress for both of us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563525 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:54:43 +0000 skipra 1563525@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: Yup, me too! And now I understand why my mom still freaks out about me eating enough and not getting too skinny. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563365 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:57:14 +0000 littlebug 1563365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: *sheepishly raising a hand* Uhhh...yeah. I was so firm and basically a total snob about that - "he'll eat what I give him or he doesn't eat." Says the woman who now will try anything and everything and eventually will end up feeding him puffs and applesauce for dinner just to get some food in him. Ha. Ohhhh, reality... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563260 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:24:15 +0000 mamimami 1563260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: exactly. At one point you will realize (hopefully) that you may be biologically engineered to think your child is the best person EVER, but that he/she will be around other people in his/her life without that genetic predisposition and you would like that to be a pleasant experience for everyone involved, so some discipline will need to come into the picture :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563130 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:40:41 +0000 googly-eyes 1563130@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: guilty of that too!</p> <p>You just don't know what kind of parent you'll be til you are a parent...and until you know what kind of child you have! Z will change a lot in the coming months and years and you will adjust. For what it's worth I am putting off ear piercing too even though where I'm from lots of people pierce girls' ears during young babyhood. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563125 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:39:39 +0000 Smurfette 1563125@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: Same! I just want to make sure she eats. Anything to make sure she sleeps all night!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563124 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:39:37 +0000 anonysquire 1563124@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@coopsmama: Oh man, I never thought I would co-sleep. But I am loving it and don't see myself stopping anytime soon!</p> <p>@Bao: I totally understand that one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563115 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:37:13 +0000 Bao 1563115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah I used to say she would get what's for dinner and that's it, now if she doesn't eat I try everything under the sun to get her to eat something. Bad habit I know, but I can't put her to bed hungry. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563109 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:36:04 +0000 coopsmama 1563109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh yes! For us it was co-sleeping. I always said I would be one of those parents who never bed shared and who put their kid on a schedule as early as possible. Once DS was here, I couldn't imagine not co-sleeping (and did until he was six months and he did better in his crib) and also didn't even think to force a schedule but fed on demand and as his needs changed daily. </p> <p>Honestly, I think it's impossible to know what kind of parent you'll be until you're in the moment and finding your groove. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563093 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:33:06 +0000 looch 1563093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: word! all of a sudden, it's like your perfect little bundle of sweetness turns into sass and you're like uh, no, you're TWO. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563088 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:31:46 +0000 anonysquire 1563088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: Lol I am sure we will get to that point. I'm just thinking to myself, I never want to hurt her. That is why I don't want to pierce her ears right now either. I know it only hurts for a second or whatever but still! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563076 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:29:51 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1563076@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@anonysquire: Yup! And it still goes on. Just because you can't imagine spanking your sweet little baby now, there may be a point as a bratty kid that doesn't listen that you really want to! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563067 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:28:29 +0000 anonysquire 1563067@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: Hopefully that happens to me. The whole learning as I go along! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563060 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:27:39 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1563060@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think there's a huge difference between imagining what kind of parent you'll be, and what kind of parent you are.</p> <p>There's a lot of things I said I would or wouldn't do, and do the opposite of. And that's okay -- we've figured out how to do things as we go along, which isn't' something we could have fully prepared for while childless. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-anyone-do-a-total-180-after-their-baby-was-born#post-1563049 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:26:16 +0000 anonysquire 1563049@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm sure eventually I will go back to normal (?) but I always said I would do certain things with my kids and now I find myself changing my mind. Like I said I would pierce my babys ears right after birth. Or I said I would have no problem spanking and grounding my kids. Ummm now I couldn't imagine doing any of that and plenty of other things. I keep telling my husband that Zuma is going to be able to get anything from me. Hahaha I know this is going to produce a Veruca Salt. </p> [attach=1857/14/n3vn52.300x200.veruca-salt-2.jpg]