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From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: My first baby
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 16:23:57 EDT
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> In article <3484@cornell.UUCP> martin@cornell.UUCP (Susan Martin) writes:
> >    I have recently learned that I'm going to be a mother!
> >I'm 28, single, and a lowly secretary.

> >    I'm really scared to death.  Since my salary is not that great at all,
> >I am finding it difficult figuring out how I can possibily afford this!
       
> OTHER PARENTS, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG: 
> Food (babies don't cost ANYTHING if you
> can nurse) is most costly for people who eat more.  Even with our son

You're right about free food while nursing but when the supplier of the
food goes to work how do you handle that. My suggestion is what my wife
did. She got one of those pumps and when the baby wasn't eating ( ha ),
she pumped into small glass bottles about 2oz. and froze them. The sitter
can pop them into water and heat them up for jr.

> clothes won't cost very much. 

The way kids go through clothes we got most of ours from hand me downs
from friends whose kids outgrew them. Of course when ours ( We have 3
all under 5 ) outgrew we passed them on. [read - free].

Thrify stores supplied another big chunk for clothes. Of course don't
buy junk. There are a lot of clothes in thrift stores that are almost
new. Parents with one child gave them to the store and they are still
good.

I'd like to offer my congrats also. Don't be overly nervous and relax.

Sometimes I want to run out screaming into the night but EVERYDAY when
I come home after work the two oldest squeal DADDY! and run up and
give me hugs and kisses and that makes it worth everything. Enjoy.