Daily joy
Mum and daughter sleeping together: in the morning, two bodies alike, similar poses, similar expressions, dozing.
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Baby pictures are weird
Drayton Bird, a direct marketing fellow quoted someone else, David Ogilvy probably as he’s always name dropping old Dave, and claimed that “Men look at women, women look at women, but they look at babies more”.
Consequently, my baby pics on flickr are the most looked at things in the office (apart from the other new mum’s and dad’s baby photos). So as joint first in the ‘gather round the machine and coo stakes’ I was curious about people’s reactions each time I cranked up the interweb to show off.
There appears to be at least 5 personality types (I’m still counting) when it comes to the presence of baby photos in the room:
1) the feigned indifferencials (eg. I was invited, but I don’t care/I wish I was more in tune with my feminine side. Most men.)
2) the joky derisors (eg. you’re such a baby bore, not them again, you’re so predictable. Wide variety of motivations behind this one)
3) the gaggle cluck clucks (as it sounds)
4) the obsessive wide-eyed (not quite bunny boilers but mildy psychopathic)
5) the fear of godders (dads to be)
There’s bound to be more. I’m on the look out.
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1) Smiles: mimi smiles after feeding without prompting. Dad works hard for a good 10mins and gets a sympathy smirk.
2) New developments: I was bathing mimi the other day and exclaimed excitedly about some new look or other. mums goes “of course” she always does that. I had no idea. Even mimi looked nonchalent about it. Dad is last to the party again!
3) Pacifying. Everyone other than mum is great at pushing little mimi’s time between feeds because we have to. We are not useful to mimi because we can’t feed her. So we have to entertain, cajole, bribe etc.
I sense a feeling of disappointment towards me as mimi sucks the colour from my t-shirt. A kind of ’so what are you for exactly?’. Maybe that’s why she smiles at mum after each feed! Just to rub it in.
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When mimi’s mum went running
So nikki went running for the first time in 3 months (since the birth). Big day, lots of excitement. Daddy left with mimi post feed. Half an hour was all it would take i was promised. The minute Nikki leaves the house, grumbles. “Dad ain’t mum. Not sure about all this.” Grumbles led to moans to screams. A bath is normally fun, so we tried that. Nope, more screams – red faced/blue murder.
Because nikki and her sister went out in gym gear they didn’t have keys. So while mimi was threatening me with decapitation upstairs, nikki was knocking to come in downstairs. After 10mins of her shouting mimi quietens enough for me to hear nikki’s shouts. Not yet cool from her run, nikki receives mimi and immediately she quietens down. How does that work!?! what am I, made of prickly thorns or something? Nikki’s arms did the job, and her breast ended the escapade.
I could have taken it all personally. But I guess nothing can replace the extraordinary bond a child has with their mum – who provides sustenance emotionally and physically and with whom the child will spend tmost of her waking day.
As Sir Peter Ustinov said “Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.” Guess I’d better get used to it. 
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Something to think about
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
Henry Ward Beecher
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I remember my brother admitting that, for his second, it took him 6 months to bond properly. And a friend’s hubby commented that “the first 6 months is sh*t”.
I don’t share that bold sentiment, but am instead simply missing my wife, who has used up most of her hugs and kisses by the time I get home, and am missing our old life – anyone for a few drinks after work in the sun?
Mimi is extraordinary, cute as can be and I wouldn’t want life without her. I’m v proud. But I still miss lazy beers at sundown. What to do?
1) Get a baby sitter at least one night a week
2) Get a nanny …mmm
3) Get an au-pair ….getting better
4) Boarding school ….too early?
So we’re looking for reliable baby-sitters if anyone knows of any. Will start a facebook group to organise them I think! Assuming we find that many.
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Result!
I got the first smile from mimi this morning, not mum. In yer face, Milky!
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Why this blog?
The last thing anyone wants to read are the gushings of a new Daddy-bore.
So at 3 months in, and at the kind request of my friend Hannah who runs the Oh Baby London designer baby brand, I am attempting to record my feelings and some interesting experiences as we come to terms with having our first daughter, little Mimi Rose, in our lives. So hopefully no ‘my baby is the most beautiful in the world’ nonsense (though she is, for the record), but rather straight from the heart thoughts on being a dad.
So this is us on flickr
And your feedback is very gratefully received!
Prematurely knowing quote of the week:
“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” Leo Burke
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