Mum-ology 101

Being a first time Mum is, among other things, the hugest of learning curves.  It's not until you bring your little bundle of pinkness home from the hospital that you actually realise how much you have absolutely no idea what you're doing. There's so much to learn and, as many people before me have said, babies don't come with an instruction manual.

The good news is you'll pick things up pretty quickly - you have to in order to survive. Every single day you'll learn something new, and before too long you'll feel like you've got at least a primary school level of understanding about your little poppet.

But every so often you'll discover something you had no idea about, or something that you really should have known all along...

Here's a few things I've learnt recently.

Nappy free time is great for clearing up nappy rash.
Nappy free time when your baby has the runny poos which caused the nappy rash, is fraught with danger.

Beware nappy free time!

Providing your baby with finger foods is essential for their development.
Cous cous is most definitely not a finger food.

Vegemite has just as much staying power as firm hold hair gel.

Even though your big, manly husband can happily rip the guts out of the stinking fish he just caught, he'll baulk at even the merest whiff of a dirty nappy.

Just when you think your baby can't produce any more poo. She can.

You can't rely on your pet dog to clean up all the scrambled eggs thrown on the floor at breakfast.

It is possible to have an entire conversation with a stranger about your baby's poos. Sadly.

So there you go, a few life lessons. Scary how so many of them relate to poo.

What have you learnt recently??