babies
how the heck to people find the time to have more than one, by the time little hamster is in bed we're too knackered to do anything, does this mean it's all over or does it get better?
(bluehamster, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 13:13, 9 replies)

Nope.
It's over. just resign yourself to the fact your sex life will now amount to trying to look up girls skirts on the bus, or a late night fap when the Mrs is in bed over the ten minute freeview on Playboy TV.

Sorry
(Vinegar strokes Should know better on, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 13:32, closed)

Answer: both
'cause once you have the hang of dealing with one you forget how bloody hard it was first time and it seems like a good idea again. Apparently women are predisposed to forgetting the full agony of childbirth so that they can go through it repeatedly...nature eh, what a wanker!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 21 Oct 2010, 13:33, closed)

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This is troo.

I don't actually think there is an answer, but in my experience, the worst of the sleep deprivation was over at about 2 years.

Then you spend another 2 years saying 'Fuck that, never again'.

Then maybe a bit more time not saying anything.

Then you have another one . . .

Say me, currently proud dad of a 6 eyar old, and a 5 month old. I'm off for a kip.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 13:49, closed)

Mine are older
But it doesn't get better, just different, and you get too tired to care anymore!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 22 Oct 2010, 8:29, closed)

Don't Panic!
My personal experience is that It Get's Better. It must have done*, or we'd never have had the second helping!

Two babes are actually less of a handful in some ways, because they can give each other attention instead of just looking to you. And no-one makes them laugh like they make each other laugh.

You got more back from them, after a while...starting at 6 weeks with a smile, you'll struggle to remember all the milestones* as they slowly and joyfully develop into something more resembling an independant human being. Then, it's more like being responsible for someone who is staggeringly drunk. Then, they start talking and you realise that they learnt to listen first and now it's like having a voice recorder in your back pocket that keeps going off by itself. Now's the time to realise that you should have curtailed your free and colourful vocabulary at least a month ago. And so it goes on, like levels in a video game.

Best parental advice I received: "Choose your battles!"
And if you want babies to sleep through the night, read 'the baby whisperer'

Good luck!

* - I may not have been awake enough to notice.

PS If Ebay sold Dull Moments, I would bid for one.
(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 14:01, closed)

you can have our 3 teen boys for free.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 8:12, closed)

Hang in there it will
We have a little cockroach and are currently in the process of making a smaller cockroach. TBH being knackered in the evening is what we do but its the little things like playing games together, getting a babysitter once in a while so that we still know who we are.
(Cockroach-Sombrero Cook Pass Babtridge, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 18:28, closed)

It gets better
It's hard work, but as time goes by things become easier and babies become something you enjoy having more and more.

Little 'un is now six months old and I could live on his toothless grins. My two year old gets cheekier by the day but makes me laugh at the same time.

Hard work, but I wouldn't change it for the world.
(Hagis, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 0:01, closed)

so proud but
Would be nice to have a warning about how things like potty training can go oh so horribly wrong, little hamster got the hang of crapping in the plastic pretty quickly and we praised her, now she insists on carrying the damn thing to where ever we are in the house to show us, spilling shit and piss on the floor more than once.

Still it's hard not to smile.
(bluehamster, Wed 27 Oct 2010, 13:00, closed)