When you were a clueless new mum what did you do?

Every thing you have done i have done...

It got that bad about me worrying about SIDS i put the baby in bed with us BIG mistake he didn't leave until he was 4 :o)

I don't regret anything besides him sleeping in the bed with us i think i should have put him in his own room sooner but that was my own fault.

He's 7 now and i'm TTC#2 and even though i think i've done it all i will probably still do most of the clueless things everyone else does ( well fingers crossed i get the chance too)

I didn't have quite as many mishaps, but I was very worried about SIDS. I don't think I slept a full night until she was about 4 months and it still took me another 3 before I stopped checking on her 3 or 4 times a night before I finally went to bed.

There was an incident were we fell asleep in bed and I don't know if I pushed her or if she rolled, but she ended up on the floor. I felt like the worst mom in the entire world, but come to find out, a lot of other family members have done the same thing. There was also the time I decided to undress her on the bathroom floor before her bath and ended up banging her head on the toilet when I was picking her up. I've had a lot of incidents like that. Now she's a healthy 10 (almost 11) month old little girl, who shows no signs of her mommy's clumsiness and doesn't seem to hold it against me.

I was also alone and pretty clueless on how to handle a baby or feed one when I had my daughter. The nurses in L&D gave me a pretty disgusted look when I asked for help on these things. I've never once fed a baby, let alone held one, and I didn't want to "break" her. I had major issues with breastfeeding and we never quite got the hang of it...I had already spent the money on the breast pump and storage bags and they only got uses a few times.

I think I could probably write a book. I was so sure I had it all figured out as far as I could take it, but knew there would be things I'd struggle with- it's natural. I didn't expect things to be so scary at first, luckily things straightened themselves out much sooner than I expected too.

I was clueless with labor, lol. Took me over 2 hours to figure out how to push her out right. Guess that's where it all started. I don't know that it was a bunch of little things, so much as that moment when I brought her home and put her down and looked around my house and thought "now what?" I had my baby, who I waited so long for...but what do you DO with a baby all day. I wanted to spend every second with her, and she just wanted to sleep. I would be so paranoid I wasn't feeding her enough, or was it too much, and she didn't finish her bottle...is she okay? Did I burp her enough, oh no what if one is stuck?! Should I use the pacifier? She doesn't seem to want it, but maybe it'll help her sleep?! I had about 3 days of just high anxiety and constant questioning and double guessing myself. THANK GOD for my husband, who has a (now) 8 year old and knew what he was doing. He was very kind and patient with me.

My daughter will be 3 in February. Light of my life, best thing that ever happened to me :-)

Really? Umm i never had that problem. When i had my daughter, the midwives and my family (my mum,etc) taught me how careful to be with little things like dressing her since i was so paranoid i would accidently hurt her, as when they're newborns, they're a little fragile. But i soon learnt and learnt pretty fast how to breastfeed (which was very easy for me, luckily) and bath her, how to wrap her up etc. Yeah, i was kinda paranoid about sids too. And she's now nearly 9 months old, sleeping in her own cot (since about 3-4 months) and i still check on her every now and then. I think its the mother's natural instinct that they 'know'. I used to not know whether she was tired or just hungry, or both. But now this ALL comes very easy for me. I guess because i just want the best for my precious baby, I learn so i can look after her the best i can :)

i had a baby nephew when my son was born,so used to newborns and babies,but my biggest paranoia was about sids too. I used to put the alarm clock every hour ,because i was afraid of being tired and not wake up to check on my son.he is 8 and I still check on him at least 2 or 3 times a night!

i was actually just the opposite, i was too young and naive to worry about SIDS, i was more like "i need sleep, you will sleep in your own crib in your own room"

the one thing i did realize, as my son got older, was that I didn't teach him to do things on his own as soon as i should. Being that he was an only child for so long, i had nothing better to do than to cater to him. It wasn't until one day i went to his school to have lunch with him (he was in 2nd grade) and I was walking over to the table, and I saw his friend opening his juice box for him, cuz he couldn't get the straw in it...cuz i always did it for him....

OOPSY

i agree its clueless

I flushed the toilet.