Here's a couple things I have learned in the past 4 weeks, 6 days.
1) When you have a baby, the amount of laundry you have to do increased exponentially. It's not just the kid's clothes- he has plenty, and they're so tiny that his entire wardrobe is less than a full laundry load. When it was just 2 of us, we would wear pants and shirts numerous times before washing them. Now, it's a miracle if something isn't thrown up on or peed on within 2 hours of putting it on. So, we all have a lot more laundry.
2) Always get baby ready for the day- fed, changed, and clothed before getting self dressed. See #1 for further explanation.
3) I am confounded by the tags on baby clothes and associated paraphernalia. The bibs, burp cloths, and blankets all tell my that it's ok to iron them "when necessary." WTF?! When in holy hell would it ever be necessary to iron ANYTHING for a baby? I don't even own an iron! The only clothes of mine that should or could be ironed are suits and I have them dry-cleaned. Until Johan has his first bunad (traditional Norwegian costume that he will wear to celebrate Norway's Constitution Day), we will not have one article of anything that would make dry-cleaning or ironing even a remote possibility. Any parent that is spending her or his time ironing bibs or blankets probably has had a mental breakdown, should be deemed incompetent, and the child for whom that parent is ironing should be removed from the home. Yeah, I watch a lot of Law and Order: SVU where children are removed from the home. But, seriously, "iron when necessary?" Crazy, I tell you. CRAZY.
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