You Know You’re A Parent When:
1: You have woken up in the middle of the night convinced you have forgotten to do the battery run before bed. You get up and go around the house searching for the 6 odd new fangled toys that have fun LIGHTS and SOUNDS (to a parent this just means.. batteries) that haven’t been switched off during the day, only to find that they in fact have been switched off and you are now just cold and awake at 3am
2: You’ve said the words “fine, here, try some then, you won’t even like it!” to a little person with outstretched arms and a ‘why don’t you love me enough to give me some’ look on their face. Problem is, this backfires. Turns out babies like soda water and cheese on toast and paddle pops and sugar free iced tea.. the list goes embarrassingly on. Now you just have to share.
3: You and your baby have sniffed a stuffy sick nose sniff simultaneously.
4: The thoughts of morning sickness, brain frying twitchy leg (RLS), not being able to even look at any of your favorite foods, drinks or pastimes (thank you pregnancy fun police) and the final, mind numbing pain of childbirth with a botched epidural no longer over ride the want to do it all over again and have another one.
5: Your pretty confident that your baby would leave you for Strawberry Shortcake. And we thought all we had to worry about was our husbands when (never) Angelina comes to town…
