Remembering the differences between our role as parents when we had our first son Jon, who is now 6 years old and now that we have Guim, 5 months old (between Aran, 3 years old) we have observed these days that we have evolved (or involved ) as parents to a point where we have dispensed with most of the gadgets we buy with the first one.
In 2006, first-time parents who enter the face of "yoesquenomeentero" to a childcare store saying that in a few months they will have a baby, we literally went plucked. It seemed to me that the shining of the saleswoman's eyes and the gesture of rubbing her hands were suspicious ... even when I saw the "$" symbol on her pupils I had a rare feeling that "something is happening here."
The fact is that we ignored our arachnid sense and, as I say, we took everything ("come on baby, I bought it for you"). Now it's funny (to call it somehow) remember the silly face you have left when you realize, once the baby is born, he barely uses the cuckoo, bassinet, stroller, hammock, crib, 3-in-1 chair, etc.
The cuckoo and all its accessories
This is the cuckoo that we bought, because we bought the Loola, a stroller that we liked right away that came with a chassis and three accessories (3 in 1), the cuckoo, the egg (better known as maxi-cosi) and the chair.
We bought it and also bought a sack to put it inside and it was not cold and the umbrella we omitted because it was winter, if not.
Well, I think we use it about two or three weeks. He could go in the car, but although the cuckoo was well caught, it didn't seem to us that the boy was too attached to the cuckoo, seeing that the system could be unsafe. As our son also showed us that he didn't want to spend a lot of time in there, we decided to switch to the maxi-cosi, which is better in the car, and alternate with the backpack when he didn't want to go.
Total, that we keep the completely new cuckoo with the feeling of "we could have saved it".
The bassinet, for a few days
Something similar happened with the bassinet, although it lasted a bit longer for our stubbornness than for anything else. Day by day he slept worse and worse in there, demanding more and more attention. But of course, you remember at that moment the girl who so kindly sold you everything and you think: she sells this to everyone, that is, that all babies sleep in one of these. Then you decide that you are doing well and that he hears, if the child complains, he will complain less with time.
We were going to bed for him to suck and, when he finished, we put him back in the bassinet, which is his "bed", his place to sleep. Over time the fatigue made a dent and we were no longer able to be attentive to when the shot was over, so in the end his "little bed" stopped doing his job because he began to sleep in ours.
We keep the bassinet completely new with the feeling, again, of "we could have saved it".
The cradle, then the same as the bassinet
Then, once you realize that your child cares about a pepper that has been fooled in the store with so much accessory, or rather, that you have been fooled, you surrender to the evidence and assume that, if he does not sleep in the bassinet, less will he do in the crib, which is also in another room.
So you see the games of teddy sheets, there, so beautiful and well placed, waiting to hug the baby who has to sleep in the crib at night and you realize that your child does not want to be hugged by any sheet, unless That mom is next.
Well, come on, the cradle served as a toy store and a place to leave the clothes that had to be ironed until one day we decided to give him “kill him”, leaving us with that known feeling of “we could have saved it”.
The hammock
At that point, or a little earlier maybe, you remember the hammock, where children spend a lot of time because when they move they swing and calm down. Well, and a milk, which mine only agreed to take some pictures in it sitting and then said that he preferred to be sitting in our arms, but not before inviting us to sit down, at the risk of being embedded in it.
In short, another pot that was at home a few weeks taking dust and that made us feel as if we were living a deja vu: this could have been saved.
The stroller stroller
Another of the pots that we had left over because the child did not use was just Loola's chair. We were determined to use the 3 accessories of the stroller (the cuckoo retired months ago and the maxi-cosi as a car seat, only the chair was left), we put the chair so that it was almost sitting when I was about five months old.
Nothing, the boy was sitting for a while looking at mom, dad or the sky and then said “Can you get me out of the chair, please? I give you two seconds of margin. ”
So we ended up taking the cart piece (because to be a chair it is not too light) for a walk, with the child in his arms. This happened until one good day, in a lucid attack or after an unexpected neuronal connection we decided that the stroller did not take it out more, than for what.
This happened until about a year and a half, at which time he mysteriously began to appreciate the possibility of sitting in a chair watching the world. By then, that chair was too big and heavy compared to the umbrella-type chairs, so the Loola chair was as unpolluted as the rest of the elements, leaving us that feeling of (come on, all together in unison): this could be done to us have saved!
In short, if we start adding, between pitos and flutes, two monthly payments went on things that the baby did not want to use. The thing was less traumatic for us because many were in the end family gifts (that is, they were paid by others), but the silly face, the feeling of wasting money and time trying to get our son to do what he did. I was supposed to do, that nobody took away from us in a long time (I think it has even been chronic ... imagine).
Photos | Jessicafm
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