‘I wouldn’t have minded if someone had told me this before I became a mother’
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The craft of parenting is something you learn along the way, but oh, how nice it would have been if someone had informed you about these things in advance.
Chantal (37): “It seemed so idyllic: my baby (Fiona, now just 1) at the breast. By now I know: babies are small in everything, except in suction. Ouch, ouch and again ouch. But hey, a happy, calm baby.”
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Reserves
Tessa (45): “I would not have minded if someone had told me that spare clothes are not only useful for small children. When we went flying for a long time with Bobby (9) and Djaxx (7), I had packed the diaper bag for my youngest one year old with spare rompers, pants and shirts.
“Reserve clothes are not only useful for small children”
In Bobby’s backpack, then four, were gifts for the road, booklets and some toys. Of course he threw chocolate milk all over his pants before we got in and once in the air he threw up all over his shirt.”
Flaps forever
Alina (32): “This happens to you once. Hand your toddler a carton of juice and say, “Have a drink.” Mine – Mijntje, now 4 – squeezed and fláts: juice all over the place. She wet, carpet filthy and a coffee table dripping with juice. My best friend was there and said, “Didn’t you unfold those two flaps?” uh, no.”
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Maternity care via YouTube
Sylvia (31): “Because I had to stay in hospital after Douwe (now 2) gave birth, I was no longer entitled to maternity care when I returned home. So we had to figure it all out ourselves. Thank God for YouTube! Search for ‘bath baby’ or ‘making a bottle’ if you really lost it all for a while.”
The infamous diaper change
Bionda (40): “There I was, in the middle of the night, with a two-day-old baby. And a diaper ready to change it. When Pepijn (now 4) was lying on the commode, he suddenly let out a loud fart and the poop flew straight onto my pajamas. Never thought about the fact that such a diaper change moment is life-threatening.”
In triplicate
Blackbird (44): “My husband then walked our route back through the city late at night. Looking for ‘Broertje’, the hug of our oldest, Fiene (now 3). After an hour and a half he found the thing on an electrical box, kindly placed there by other people. The moral of this story: you buy cuddly toys in at least three copies so that one can get lost again.”
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