The New Baby

[MsHeartBeat]

I know a couple with a baby on the way.  They tried to get pregnant for several years, finally with all kinds of fertility pills, it happened.

Now this man claims to want kids.  So why is it that they just moved and instead of the second bedroom being set up for the baby, it is instead going to be HIS room with his computer, his Star Wars memorabilia, his poker stuff, his big screen tv, etc.?  The baby is due in December, and they have yet to buy anything for the kid.  That was kinda shocking, as most women and men that want a kid badly start picking up bibs, rattles, some kind of baby SOMETHING almost as soon as they find out its a GO!

Of course I had to ask why he was robbing his wife of the joy of decorating a room for her first baby.  He said the baby was going to be in the room with them.  Okay, so what happens when the kid gets bigger?  Then what?  He had no answer.

See to me thats gross for parents to be screwing with the baby in the room.  Some things babies just don't need to hear, even if they don't know what is going on.  That seems exhibitionistic and pedophilic to me.  Put the kid in ITS OWN SPACE then go into YOUR OWN SPACE and do grown up thangs.  Ugh!!

Anyway, if you were this woman, how would you feel and what would you be thinking?

And what do you think brotha man is thinking about?

[Ndgo]

How self-centered and selfish can this man be? But I'm more curious to hear what the baby's momma has to say as she's seeing this unfold...

So they think they're going to be able to keep an infant so tiny that it won't need space to grow and expand?  So they plan on living, breathing and existing as a couple in the same bedroom with a toddler?

I just don't know what this world is coming to... 

[devineone]

That won't last long.  He'll get tired of that once that baby arrives. Babies don't sleep through the night.  That baby will have his/her own room before you know it.
Barring that, If I were the Mom, I'd go sleep in the starwars room and leave him and the baby in that room, let him get up for the night feeds and everything else babies require when they wake up through the night.

This reminds me of my sister when her newborn was waking up every hour and her husband would just sleep through it.  She was so mad and sleep deprived, she went and gota tray of ice cubes and stuck them to his face, eyelids and every place else on his body including there... That taught him to leave the taking care of the baby through the night to her.  He got much better after that.

[MsHeartBeat]

She does not get her way with him.  He gets EVERYTHING he wants out of her.  I would imagine that HE is going to be sleeping in his room on the futon he is getting, and that SHE and the baby will be in the bed room with that noise.  Dude is not going to be the least bit inconvenienced I don't think.  I believe he sees a child as another thing to entertain him, and when the newness wears off, he will be on about his business with some other woman.

[philnation]

That won't last long.  He'll get tired of that once that baby arrives. Babies don't sleep through the night.  That baby will have his/her own room before you know it.

Yeah, he won't like being awakened at 3 a.m. every night!