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Top 5 things I didn't know about babies until now (you will think I'm an idiot)

5.  Baby Parents can function on 5 hours of sleep or less

Actually this hasn't been as hard as I expected. I always thought sleep was overrated anyway.

4.  Babies take a long time to feed

I would honestly say 50-75% of the time we spend with the baby is feeding. If he is so hungry, why does he eat so freaking slow?

3.  Babies can get acne...and/or dry skin... either is completely normal

Sometimes I think our baby doctor is just trying to pacify us because whenever we notice something kind of weird about the baby she just tells us its completely normal. Example:

Parents:  Every time we take our baby's diaper off he pees in our face...

Baby Doctor:  Oh, yeah, that happens all the time. Babies go through a phase from 2-3 weeks old when they are diabolically smart and evil.

2.  Babies are diabolically smart and evil

He is totally chill until we are sitting down to eat dinner, or watching a video, or something else fun, then he starts crying. When you're looking at him he acts like he doesn't even care you exist, but as soon as you look at the TV he is at it again.

1.  Your wife may take a dump during the delivery

Mine didn't. She doesn't do that. (See my post on the birth for the explanation).

There's a Party in Miles's Tummy

I know everyone talks about how cute it is when babies fart or burp and whatnot, but for us it is a serious topic of interest. After Miles came home from the hospital we changed a particularly dirty diaper, and settled in to our lives. Little did we know it would be his last poop until over a week later. Just one of this many things you just can’t experience unless you are a parent of a newborn is sheer joy at seeing someone else’s doo doo.

There's a site called "Overheard in New York" and I thought about posting this:

Sarah (on cell phone):  “My life became sticking my hand in his pants every five minutes and praying that it would be covered in poop.”

But now Miles is doing great. The doctor said it would be normal during this “growth spurt” (age 2-3 weeks? more like age 0-18 hopefully) for his stomach to be making a lot of noise, and sure enough, you can really hear it churning in there. He is one loud baby. Sometimes we have farting contests.

Best video ever:

Hospital Anticipation

By Sarah

As a little girl I used to anticipate Christmas by counting down a week of preceding "eve's". For example, if Christmas fell on a Friday I would wake up on Tuesday morning thrilled that it was Christmas Eve-Eve-Eve. I feel a similar anticipation now - my c-section is scheduled for Friday morning at 8am. Today is the eve-eve-eve of meeting my son...

Granted, a c-section and 4-day hospital stay is a little bit different from Christmas... especially since I spent months planning for a natural delivery using the hypnobirth technique. Jessica Alba used that technique and in the days leading up to the delivery she went from being one of my least favorite actresses to my favorite hollywood personality!

So, it's Christmas anticipation... except it's for surgery and a long hospital stay. AND a baby!!