Apologies if there's a thread like this elsewhere but I got nosey!

Is there anything you said you'd do and didn't with your kids or anything you said you'd never do and now you do it?

Also, if you're planning on any more, will you do anything different?

With me, I did say that I'd not cuddle LO to sleep, that I'd do CC/CIO, and never co-sleep, until he came, and it felt wrong!

I wanted to use cloth, but never have (mega skint really!) But with the next one, I'm using my pregnancy grant to buy cloth and slings.

I don't think I'm going to use my buggy at all with the next one, might even sell it to fund a sling or two!!

(I wear Ollie now, but only have 1 sling, and would love more!)

I thought I'd never let Alice sleep in my bed, and that I'd have a routine in place by 3 months. We coslept from day 3, and don't intend to stop for a good while yet, and rarely have anything even vaguely like a routine! I thought I'd use cloth from about 2 weeks, but didn't get round to it for a few months.

Apart from those things, I've pretty much stuck to what I thought. Next time (if there is a next time) I think I'll do much the same again, but hopefully with more confidence. Oh, and next baby won't go in a pram or bouncy chair anywhere near as much as Alice did!

I'm having my next at home too! (forgot to mention that)
And s/he's going to be in cloth from day 1!

I never thought I'd use cloth - but once I started using it I loved it so much, now I'm an addict

I thought I'd stop bf at 6 months, yet here I am still going strong and have no plans stopping.

I was planning on using my pram much more but Isla and I love our Ergo so much we much prefer using that.

I thought I'd stop bfing at 12 months but am still going. I thought I'd never ever co-sleep, well that didn't quite happen! I wouldn't have thought I'd be such a softie about crying either. I thought I'd use slings more, but that didn't quite work out as planned.

Next time round (if that happens) I think I'd try harder with slings.

We'd always planned to BF until a year,babywear and cloth diaper but co-sleeping wasn't on my radar. We're still going strong with all the above and don't have plans to stop just yet.

I guess the only thing that has changed is my conviction that my way is the right way, lol It sounds bad, but I guess when I was pregnant, I thought "oh that sounds like a good way to parent, etc" but now that I've actually done it and it's worked well for our family, I'm more passionate and confident about my choices to BF, babywear, CD, co-sleep etc. I'm going through a phase where I don't think we'll have anymore kids but if we did, then I don't think that we'd really change anything.

This whole baby thing has resulted in some other changes in our household that didn't plan for though too- we're definitely making greener choices and becoming more crunchy as the months pass and I now work from home so that I can spend more time with Emma.

I'm doing mostly what I thought I'd be but not 100%

Nappies - I kind of wanted to use cloth but didn't really think I ever would. I made the switch at 3 months for X and would likely do it earlier with a second child (maybe after the meconium is gone). Also I have used Pampers on X but would try eco ones first for any sposies on number 2.

Milk - I wanted to breastfeed but ended up formula feeding. With a second, I would like to attempt breastfeeding again but if it didn't work out I would feel much more confident and less guilty in switching to formula than I did with X.

Babywearing - Didn't do it as much initially as would have liked with X as only had a BB and he wasn't big enough for it. Now I'm a bit more clued up on slings, I'll probably carry X longer than I thought I would do when I only knew about BBs. Likewise, I'd get something newborn suitable if I had another baby so I could use it much earlier on. Also I don't really like the idea of having to buy a double buggy so if I could carry one and push the other, it would be better.

CC - thought I'd do it but haven't. X settles himself easily at night but I rarely leave him to cry for more than a minute or so during the day (and even then only if I'm doing something - e.g. prepping bottles, going to the loo etc). Not sure how I would play it with a seonc.d Probably similar but obviously I'd have X to tend to as well and couldn't give baby 100% of my attention as I can now.

I thought people who let their kids sleep in their bed were strange (I really felt that strongly about it) and then I co-slept from day 1! James doesnt always sleep in my bed now, but I love it when he comes in!

I never thought I'd use cloth and now I love it!

I thought I would be a strict mum, but I'm a complete softie and cannot stand seeing my child cry!

I always intended to bf but never felt as strongly about it as I do now, I always thought I'd do top up feeds with formula, and although my child has had a small amount of formula it was a lot later than I intend (10 months).

I feel really pasionate about extended rf care seats now and spread the word!