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goatgirl
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posted February 26, 2008 07:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for goatgirl     Edit/Delete Message
NEWBORN'S TEN COMMANDMENTS TO PARENTS

I come to you a small, immature being with my own style and personality. I am yours for only a short time: Enjoy me.

1. Please take the time to find out who I am, how I differ from you and how much I can bring to you.

2. Please feed me when I am hungry. I never knew hunger in the uterus, and clocks and time mean little to me.

3. Please hold, cuddle, kiss, touch, stroke, and croon to me. I was always held closely in the uterus and was never alone before.

4. Please don't be disappointed when I am not the perfect baby that you expected; nor disappointed with yourselves that you are not the perfect parents.

5. Please don't expect too much from me as your new baby; or too much from yourselves as new parents. Give us both six weeks as a birthday present - six weeks for me to grow, develop, mature and become more stable and predictable; and six weeks for mom to rest, relax and allow your body to go back to normal.

6. Please forgive me if I cry a lot. Bear with me and a short time, as I mature, I will spend less time crying and more time socializing.

7. Please watch me carefully and I can tell you the things that soothe, console, and please me. I am not a tyrant who was sent to make your life miserable, but the only way I can tell you that I am not happy is by crying.

8. Please remember that I am resilient and can withstand the many natural mistakes you will make with me, as long as you make them with love, you cannot ruin me.

9. Please take care of yourself and eat a balanced diet, rest and exercise so that when we are together, you have the health and strength to take care of me.

10. Please take care of your relationship with each other, for what good is family bonding if there is no family to bond with?


Although I may have turned your life upside down, please realize that things will go back to normal before long.


Thank-you,

Your loving child.

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The truth is ... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else. ~ Countee Cullen

We are weaving character every day, and the way to weave the best character is to be kind and to be useful. Think right, act right; it is what we think and do that makes us who we are. ~ Elbert Hubbard

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angel_of_hope
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posted February 27, 2008 12:42 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for angel_of_hope     Edit/Delete Message
Amongst all the excitement I missed this yesterday.

I myself don't have children. yet. I've heard many of my friends (and people in general) say how they wish Babies came with manuals, lol. I'd have to say they need to read this ...

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PixieDust
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posted February 27, 2008 03:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieDust     Edit/Delete Message
That is true they don't come with manuals!

You just wing it and hope for the best!

I'm so glad Mike & I had a good journey as mother and son. (He may think differently! LOL!)

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ListensToTrees
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posted February 28, 2008 01:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ListensToTrees     Edit/Delete Message
Thats beautiful, goatgirl.

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Randall
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posted March 03, 2008 08:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message

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"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Lewis Carroll

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alma_pisces
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posted March 08, 2008 11:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for alma_pisces     Edit/Delete Message
This is so cute, I am planning on having a baby and I will keep all this in mind.

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wlorac
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posted March 14, 2008 11:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for wlorac     Edit/Delete Message
That is so completely true and its easy to miss it when you are a new parent with a newborn child, especially if you are young.

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MAG
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posted March 15, 2008 05:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MAG     Edit/Delete Message
This is really nice...I had a baby 6 months ago...

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Randall
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posted March 16, 2008 06:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message

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"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Lewis Carroll

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