Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
by bartvk on Thursday September 22, 2016 @02:35AM
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> and the "average" girl has NO insider information
Exactly. Before the baby was born, I took a (men only) course on fatherhood. It was both very funny as well as informational. Afterwards, I knew a lot more than my girlfriend. This helped me because I found out some women can get quite possessive (for lack of a better term). She'd still blurt out "I know best because I'm the mother", but I definitely wasn't ignorant anymore.
She had no idea how to bathe a baby safely, how to dress it, safely, how to hold it safely, how to play with it safely, how to clean its bum, how to put on a nappy, how to bottle feed it, how to breast feed it ....the list of things she didn't know was endless....
Neither did I.
We figured it out through a combination of trial and error ("oops, wet babies are slippery and easy to drop") parental advice and phamplets.
its not rocket science, its not easy and the "average" girl has NO insider information.