Vent

[hkellick]

If I say something like "Hey, I've been getting between 5 and 6 hours a sleep for the last 6 days" (which is true, I have.) and I'm tired, I do not want to hear you say "Wait til the baby arrives."

I'm already aware of the fact that the baby will wake us up and it will suck but PLEASE SHUT UP! Firstly, it isn't the point. Secondly, I get it already.

It's like a broken record. I say I'm tired and someone says "Wait til the baby arrives."

I realize this is well-meaning people trying to communicate a shared pain in my direction, but I'm not interested in hearing it anymore.

Grr.

Comments

[hillarygayle]

My husband, Bryan, & I decided during my 8th month of pregnancy that the next person who said "Oh, just wait until [fill in the blank]" regarding the difficulty of child-rearing was going to get a brick to the forehead & I was going to claim Pregnant Lady Privilege. Seriously--it's like people think you don't know how hard it's going to be. Like you think raising kids is going to be a piece of cake & babies always do whatever you tell them to & unicorns & fairies appear to help you if you get a little snowed-under. *kicks people in general*

[hkellick]

Truthfully, I have no idea how hard it will be. I have little to no experience with raising children. I only first held a baby without fearing I'd drop her a month or so ago.

I don't think it's that they think we don't know so much as they just want to talk about their own experiences (read: troubles) raising children. It's a shared experience, a shared pain, waking up every hour and a half or so those first couple of months, and people seem to like to share that. *shrug*

I don't get it. :)