https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 19 May 2026 04:19:36 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1223254 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:50:06 +0000 Lindsay05 1223254@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would have to say screen time. Its not that I would never let her use it but just only a little here and there. I record a LOT of cartoons to get through my day. Mommy needs a break? Oh look Doras on tv. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1223229 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:33:32 +0000 Cherrybee 1223229@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I said I wouldn't have a bin in the nursery because it's so disgusting to leave bags of pee festering in there! Well, I gave that up pretty quickly!! I empty it every day (and throw poopy ones away in the outside bin immediately) but, yeah, I'm not going to be traipsing out to the outside bin ten times a day!! </p> <p>I also said ZERO screen time but DH put children's TV channel CBeebies on for her one day and the bright, moving images just captivated her. She cooed and shrieked and gurled and waved her arms and legs about - how could I deny her that? So she is allowed half an hour in the evening (just before her bath, when she would usually be really fussy).... sigh....! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1223170 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:10:46 +0000 cmomma17 1223170@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BlueWolverine: me too!! I forgot about the snot sucker! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1223162 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:05:44 +0000 Mamaof2 1223162@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Eat or drink in the car!</p> <p>I was sure my kids would only have water!</p> <p>My sister laughed at me and said when your 20 mins late and your LO is screaming for a snack or drink I promise you will give them one and be on your way...... yep she was right! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1223152 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:01:49 +0000 Boheme 1223152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Co-bedding/co-sleeping, using a pacifier, using a lovey.</p> <p>If you had told me at this time last year that the baby I was carrying would turn me and my husband both into hippie dippy AP-style parents who cloth diaper, co-bed, babywear, don't/won't employ sleep training, and EBF at all costs... I would've laughed in your face. </p> <p>I'll join @.twist.: at the words buffet! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1223100 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:27:04 +0000 cmomma17 1223100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pinkcupcake: Screen time is the big one! Swore he would have ZERO until age two. HA! Our TV is just on ALL THE TIME. </p> <p>Co-sleeping. DH wanted it from the beginning and I was soooo against it. I don't know what I'd do without it now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1223096 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:17:47 +0000 Bookish 1223096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hah...</p> <p>I swore I'd make my own organic baby food, and that she'd have no screen time before 2. Uh, well, it's football season, so the TV is on too much on the weekend, and apparently mama ain't got time to make baby food! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1223048 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 05:30:46 +0000 illumina 1223048@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't co-sleep, but on the odd occasion I've fallen asleep after bringing her into the bed! We give her formula around once a week for convenience! I spend way more than I should on clothes! We use all disposable nappies (originally planned to CD)! We'll happily hand her over to relatives to watch her- didn't think I'd be as comfortable with this as I am- guess the newborn stage will do that to you!</p> <p>@.twist.: haha nom nom nom indeed! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1223036 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 03:44:05 +0000 shopaholic 1223036@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cosleep, which I do some mornings. Use a pacifier. Let her play on a phone or iPad (which DH always quick to use as entertainment). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1223019 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 02:34:35 +0000 erwoo 1223019@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There's so much I can't even remember... screen time for sure! I've limited them in the past... now... and with a second one as well screen time is SO hard to control with my second, especially when my oldest gets to watch it. And then I forget how long he's been watching it for. Oops! But on the upside, my second one doesn't really sit the entire time watching it. He gets bored and goes off and plays with all of his brother's toys while he can. Smart kid! :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1223016 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 02:05:09 +0000 Mrs. Fox 1223016@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Screen time! We don't have television in the house but we do have Netflix and today the little man was so sick (and I was so tired!) I broke out the old school Sesame Street. And my phone is full of apps to get through road trips and waiting rooms. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1223000 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 01:13:17 +0000 dojo 1223000@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was adamant that I would make all my own organic baby food. HA HA. I will admit I have enjoyed doing it a few times but I just don't have the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222989 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:52:54 +0000 immabeetoo 1222989@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: haha to your nomnom!</p> <p>@BlueWolverine: OMG I love the nose frida, I recommend it all the time!</p> <p>I swore I'd never buy lots of clothes for my kid since they grow out of them so fast... wrongo bongo. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222980 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:36:33 +0000 Sapphiresun 1222980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Definitely co-sleeping. Our health region is sooo against it that I was terrified, and then it was our dirty little secret for a while because it was the thing I was most scared to be judged for. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222962 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:09:48 +0000 Espion 1222962@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think I swore (at least out loud!) that I would never do something, but there are plenty of things I never even considered while pregnant...like co-sleeping. Something we now definitely do after E's first wake-up of the night. I did it for sanity, and now I can appreciate the families who choose to do it from the outset. </p> <p>I also didn't want him to have a pacifier, and he is just now taking a pacifier for the first time at five months and I'm so thankful he has another way to soothe! </p> <p>I also didn't think I'd go to the extreme lengths I have gone to preserve our breastfeeding relationship. It would be so easy to just stop, but I can't! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222954 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:59:12 +0000 MamaMagpie 1222954@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: hahaha to your "nomnom" :)</p> <p>I swore I'd never bed share...definitely done it several times already and H just turned two months. Whatever helps him sleep, though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222943 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:45:56 +0000 Kemma 1222943@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@travelgirl1: I can't believe your LO is one! Happy Birthday and whoop! to you for surviving!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222938 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:37:06 +0000 .twist. 1222938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@stargal: ah yea, I swore I wouldn't have a thumb sucker... Weeeeeeell, he sucks his thumb and not only is it the cutest thing ever but it helps put him to sleep. </p> <p>Omnomnom some more! Hahaha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222916 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:03:53 +0000 BlueWolverine 1222916@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I swore I would never use a nose frida. Saw it while registering and thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever seen. Then Baby A got sick. It works SO WELL. Way better than that bulb. Still gross, but satisfyingly so. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222912 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:00:47 +0000 MoonMoon 1222912@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you'd told me that I'd be a co-sleeping, ebf-ing AP type mom (and my husband would be a baby wearing AP type dad)a year ago, we would have laughed!<br /> If you'd told me that my 5 month old would be around TV and/or computer screens all the time, I would have been horrified.<br /> But...here I am. Never say never! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222893 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:41:01 +0000 yoursilverlining 1222893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Co-sleep (bed-share). Oh well; baby sleeping through the night trumps all! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222889 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:38:30 +0000 travelgirl1 1222889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I swore up and down and back again that I would never, ever, EVER co-sleep but yeah, she's one and I'm still sharing a bed with her. Breastfeed past six months (I have to wean for health reasons and I'm so sad about it). I have eaten my words on pretty much everything :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222884 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:33:37 +0000 jetsa 1222884@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cosleep. He won't sleep away from us, oops!</p> <p>I know I'm forgetting lots of others too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222877 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:24:06 +0000 Foodnerd81 1222877@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was pretty careful never to say never!! Even so I'm surprised how often I've picked boogies from her nose.<br /> The only thing we have said we will never do is have an older kid still being pushed around in a stroller, but 'older' is relative. She's stil teeny so I have a few years to see how that pans out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222871 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:17:02 +0000 stargal 1222871@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I swore I would never use a Binky. Hahah my boy loves.his Binky. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222869 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:16:01 +0000 Mamasig 1222869@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We wouldn't cosleep. Well that's how he sleeps best so that's how I sleep best! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222867 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:13:59 +0000 .twist. 1222867@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I swooooore I would never cosleep. And I did. I did a lot. Haha! Nomnom. My words taste good. </p> <p>I also said I would make all my own baby food. We shall seeeeee. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222863 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:07:58 +0000 californiadreams 1222863@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Talk about poo as much as i do. </p> <p>Have anything more than the simplest first bday party. </p> <p>Cosleep</p> <p>Spend so much on baby clothes. (Though I get better at finding deals over time )</p> <p>Breastfeed past one year </p> <p>Wish with all my heart that i could be a SAHM (I've only been in school forever working towards a PhD so I can be the ultimate career woman who does it all) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222856 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:02:12 +0000 Kimberlybee 1222856@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I said I would do BLW for solids and not feed her gerber purées. She loves the gerber foods more than the organic or homemade ones. So we've been buying gerber foods. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/things-you-swore-you-would-never-do#post-1222853 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:00:15 +0000 MrsRoo 1222853@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is only 7 months and I already have given her formula and we co-sleep from time to time. I swore up and down that neither of those things would happen in a million years...</p> <p>Parenting is definitely a lot less black and white than I imagined it would be during pregnancy! </p>