Seeing to your baby's needs

So your wife has asked to dress your new baby. Of course this would seem an easy task. Your baby is a few months old and you have been left with responsibility of performing this activity. It should take no more than a couple of minutes and then you can back to watching your favorite program, and of course its the football, so you dont want to miss all that much of it.

Of courrse you darent try and do both, as that will attract the wrath of your wife, so you make sure that you are totally concentrating on the matter at hand and that is to dress your baby.

So in most cases the vest, trousers, or zip up shouldnt be too much of a problem. This is accomplished quickly, you are feeling very good. Both arms are thru the sleeves and nothing is twisted. So now all that remains are the socks and shoes.

So you put on both socks, how little they are, they hardly cover the foot. Then you reach for the little shoes, and when you turn around the socks are off, and your baby has thrown them away just out of reach. So, with a smile you start again, both socks on and your reach for the shoes. Again the socks are removed and throw away, what a neat game has suddenly been created.

...and then you discover, that everything has an order, and in this simple process, the order is not sock, sock, shoe, shoe, its sock shoe, sock, shoe. So holding the shoes very close you put the sock on and then the shoe. Remarkably the sock stays on, because your little one cannot undo the shoe. (well not yet). Now its much easier to put the other sock and shoe on, and you can get back to your football game.

I wrote a book about all my experiences both major and minor, and called it 'My First Year as a Dad'. Its aim is to help other new Dads. You can find it at http://www.1stbaby.info Enjoy!