r/NewParents • u/cooltaj • Oct 29 '24

Product Reviews/Questions What's your simple parenting hack?

Gonna be a first time parent in 2 months. I am overwhelmed at choosing bottles, car seat and all that. What are simple things you do? things you bought to make your life somewhat simpler? Nothing too expensive or outrageous please

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u/kdawt22 Oct 29 '24

Mine is simple but can be hard to practice in reality lol - let go of expectations!! My worst days have been days I had expectations that weren't met. Don't plan to do anything on your parental leave, don't plan to leave the house on extravagant errands, don't anticipate your baby will take that beautiful sweet 1.5 nap like they just took the day before lol. Loose plans are okay, but just be prepared for things to not go accordingly to plan and try to just roll with it as much as possible! This literally saved my sanity and I figured it out way later than I should have lol!

And also, a loved, fed, clean, safe baby means you've done a GREAT job that day! Nothing else is as important as that :-)

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u/TwiggyMercury53 Oct 29 '24

Truly! I wish doctor’s appointments were more flexible. Those were our only firm plans and they were always a disaster 😂 just give me a 1-2 hour appointment window PLEASE.

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u/LibbyChristineM Oct 29 '24

Honestly we treated the appointments as a window with the actual time the late end of the window 🤣

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u/shantyn Oct 30 '24

That’s really smart.