Checking your new baby at night time

The first few weeks of our new baby, was somewhat strange. Here we had this new person in the house, and there was a strong temptation to keep on checking her, even at night. It took a few weeks to get over this, but during this time, I decided on a couple of things to do to make these checks a little easier and less noisy.

I bought a flashlight, so that I wouldnt need to turn on any strong lights, which made it easy to locate handles on doors, and prevent me from accidently knocking into anything. Also I found that the sliding sides of the cot/crib tended to make a noise when they were lowered and raised, so I put some non stick vegetable oil on the sides, and wow the slides slid up and down, wthout making any noise.

The first year was a real learning curve for me, and I found myself doing many things I hadnt done before, and learning new skills.

I wrote a book called 'My First Year as a Dad'. You can find it at http://www.1stbaby.info