Confess your sins, ladies :)

[wanfamily]

Love this thread - gave me such a lift. Here are a few of (the many) mine..

I say that I use the 'pat pat shush method 'cos I want my second baby to learn to sleep without rocking/ nursing etc, but often just shove him on the boob 'cos it's way quicker.

I said that I'd never let myself go when I had children, but I haven't had a hair cut in almost a year, can't remember the last time I wore lipstick and ab muscles... what are they?

I don't like brushing my toddler's teeth and often they are not cleaned as thoroughly as they should be.

I dread the evening chaos of getting 2 kids into bed by 8, but on the rare occasions when I don't do it, I feel terribly guilty.

When I read my 2 year old her bedtime story, I sometimes 'accidentally' turn 2 pages over at once to save time.
Bummer that she's started noticing.

I have always scorned at plastic surgery as being superficial, but the thought of having a boob job once I'm through with breastfeeding is starting to appeal.

Oh 'eck, the baby's awake - time to shove him on the...oops I mean do 'pat pat shush'.

 

[Nashua852]

I've got a massive grin on my face after reading all the responses. I'm so glad I put it out there. After so much negativity floating around recently I wanted somewhere to chill and spout guiltlessly.

I have a few more;

* Giving baby things to play with when I'm desperate for a few minutes (like keys) which I KNOW he'll put in his mouth but berate him for it anyway

* Abandoned all hope of weaning him off his dummy for a year - he can have it for awhile longer

* Baby slept on his front from 2 months on. It was the first big (and remains the most terrifying decision we ever made) but ultimately, after a couple of doctors and midwifes assessment we felt a bit better about it. I STILL feel like we were playing with fate in retrospect but only in the sense that you never know when you'll become a statistic. Bab was happier, slept longer and his gas problems disappeared. I will eternally thank Grobag in my prayers..

* I once (in the early days) used a breastpump under a heavy jacket in the cinema. Not really a guilt confession but a silent sorry to unsuspecting fellow cinema goers -- who didnt notice anyway but talk about a gee..if you only knew scenario.

Keep em coming! You ladies are terrific!

 

[Nashua852]

c'mon ladies, no one else has anything to confess??

 

[elaine]

Turning the TV on as a bribe to get my LO to eat her lunch. I used to say I would only feed her when she's at the table but not anymore. Anything to get food down her throat...!

3e

 

[spockey]

(1) After a VERY tiring day's work... I ask him if he wants to watch his favourite Disney programme so that I can simply sit and cuddle but zone out too!

(2) When he's going through a phase where he doesn't want to eat... I turn to Macca's!!!!

 

[FShah]

I sudddenly feel sane again!

Fibbing through my teeth that Im having a splitting headache the second i wake up so hub would play with LO before he goes to work & i catch a few more minutes of snooze

Letting LO sleep in between me & hub on occasions when she wakes up in the middle of the night so that I do not have to deal if she cries again when i put her in her crib!!

I do the 'let bab watch Baby First' thing too just so I could put my leg up a few minutes

 

[Sage]

Haha. I have one to share with carang.

Sometimes, I pretend that I'm unable to understand what MIL says too.

 

[rebekah]

I still nap when the baby naps...almost every day. she is over 5 months old.

 

[apples]

Sometimes I leave my 2 with my helper while I go and do some "terribly important" errand when really I just want to go and sit at Pacific Coffee for an hour and read the paper!

 

[carang]

apples... it IS terribly important to have time to yourself... you SHOULD NOT feel guilty about that!