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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 34217" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Have any of you noticed how different it is with your <em>second</em> baby than it was with your first?</p><p></p><p>I was so afraid of doing something wrong with my daughter! I sterilized everything that came anywhere near her. I was a fanatic about cleanliness and didn't even like other people touching her! Even though we really couldn't afford it, she had more fancy little dresses and shoes than she could ever wear and she outgrew some before she could even wear them! And her shoes were the expensive ones from the Striderite store - I was afraid that anything else might mutilate her delicate little feet and ruin her forever! And I took hundreds of rolls of film of her, several a week through her first few years, plus professional photos every few months.</p><p></p><p>Five years later, her brother was born! I was careful with him but nowhere near as fanatical as I was with my first one. I was so much more relaxed and confident with him than with his sister ... and considerably poorer with two kids instead of just one! He wore his cousins hand-me-downs and looked adorable in them. He ran barefoot so much I had a hard time getting the bottoms of his feet clean sometimes! By this time, both kids' shoes came from K-Mart and they both walked just fine, no deformities or crippled up feet! Amazing! We still took lots of pictures but nowhere near as many. And when he shared his pacifier with the dog and then popped it back in his own mouth before we could stop him, we just cringed and shook our heads. And when he ate dirt out of the flower pots (thought it was chocolate), we didn't panic. We thought it was cute and we took his picture! And we were secretly kind of proud of him because he used a spoon!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 34217, member: 1883"] Have any of you noticed how different it is with your [i]second[/i] baby than it was with your first? I was so afraid of doing something wrong with my daughter! I sterilized everything that came anywhere near her. I was a fanatic about cleanliness and didn't even like other people touching her! Even though we really couldn't afford it, she had more fancy little dresses and shoes than she could ever wear and she outgrew some before she could even wear them! And her shoes were the expensive ones from the Striderite store - I was afraid that anything else might mutilate her delicate little feet and ruin her forever! And I took hundreds of rolls of film of her, several a week through her first few years, plus professional photos every few months. Five years later, her brother was born! I was careful with him but nowhere near as fanatical as I was with my first one. I was so much more relaxed and confident with him than with his sister ... and considerably poorer with two kids instead of just one! He wore his cousins hand-me-downs and looked adorable in them. He ran barefoot so much I had a hard time getting the bottoms of his feet clean sometimes! By this time, both kids' shoes came from K-Mart and they both walked just fine, no deformities or crippled up feet! Amazing! We still took lots of pictures but nowhere near as many. And when he shared his pacifier with the dog and then popped it back in his own mouth before we could stop him, we just cringed and shook our heads. And when he ate dirt out of the flower pots (thought it was chocolate), we didn't panic. We thought it was cute and we took his picture! And we were secretly kind of proud of him because he used a spoon! [/QUOTE]
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