Husband and father of one, another one coming in few weeks time!!

hallo. father of a 18 month boy checkin in.
congrats bro. level up! 

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now... what is there to discuss? i guess one worry i have now is speaking. so far my son is 18 months. but still cant really talk properly. he can make tons+tons of animal noises though. which is freakin hilarious... but for words just single syllable words. baba mama dada nana etc. cant seem to sound out two sounds like bana or maba or that type of thing. people say boys speak late. but its still a worry. 

when did your kids start stringing sounds together

My boy is now 2.5 years old & yea, same worry as you're having too. He's not speaking much but I do see some improvement the last few weeks. I had to force him to speak up when he wanted something or else I won't do it for him.

Me & my wife have been discussing if we should throw him into nursery ASAP so that he gets to mingle around with other kids.

Also been thinking of speech therapy for quite some time now but I guess I'll consider it seriously when he hits 3 & still lotsa baby talk.

hi guys.. my son is 18mths now..

is it normal when he always wake up or cry at night asking for milk?

routine is like this

11pm - he start to sleep, around 20-30min he will sleep soundly

1am or 2am - his 1st cry for milk..he didn't actually wake up and open eye, just crying for milk

4am or 4.30am - he cry for milk again

6am to 7am - cry for milk again, this time need to put in cradle else he wont stop crying.. will sleep until 10am then wake up and bath

me myself no problem wake up at middle of night to make milk, but pity my wife coz when she wake up, quite hard to sleep again.. she's a nurse btw

my son now drink formula milk only since he's 12mths

Fortunately, he can do all that you mentioned.

While I'm not exactly sure how much of what he said is considered as "build sentence", he can definitely relate an object with colour (blue car), he is capable of going through ABC-Z, 1-20'ish & he is able to comprehend my command. It's just that majority of stuffs coming out from his mouth are still baby-talk or a mixture of 70% baby talk, 30% comprehensible English.

I must also said that he is very stubborn or in better term, strong-willed. He will ignore me if he's doing something else & sometimes he's very moody (which is kinda like his mom) when interrupted. As such, a lot of time, me & my wife felt that he didn't have much eye contact with us which is 1 of the factors that got us worried. In fact, my worries of him being autistic is 1 of the few reasons why I kept rejecting my wife when she asked for a sibling for him.

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can share some tips for parenting ?

means teaching children ( be it girl or boy ) the modern way ?

means i believe not like our childhood generation anymore,

use rotan, belt, penyapu , chain, cloth hanger, etc.

i just putting it out there. other people probably told you the same thing though hahaha. but just in case i also wanna add. also you need to decide if you gonna use formula or use breast feeding. then can also prepare accordingly. like need to boil the barang barang you wanna use like bottles and such to sterilize or go shopping for breast pump, nipple cream (some women breastfeed till nipples all bleeding, so its advised to use cream a week or two beforehand. its damn expensive though like RM40 for 5ml or something like that  ). 

for breastfeeding. one thing you can decide to do or not, depending on your waifu personality... is to talk with your wife about breastfeeding and 'possibility' of low milk supply at the beginning. my wife went into slight depression as had no milk for first week. but i think if we were prepared that it might happen then i think she wouldnt have been so upset. but after supplementing with halba/fenugreek tea. all went well.

good luck. be patient. waifu will become crazy. and you will too. hahah.

*DISCLAIMER TIPS PROVIDED ARE TO PROTECT FATHER FROM PSYCHOSIS. everyone share each others tips for a happy family. 

emigrate?

I've been to Sydney only and I love that place. Beautiful, clean and not too hectic.
NZ has always been on my "must visit" list and I know some relatives living there and they are REALLY enjoying life there.
Me and my wife has been talking about migrating a lot these days, to either AUS or NZ, but those are just dreams at the moment which we will need to do a lot more to achieve. Really not that easy in terms of dollars and cents (sense as well)...

The alternate plan would be to get our kids over to study, and pray that they would succeed in life, then probably we would have more chances to head to those places for "holidays"... So just have faith and pray hard la...
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Hey guys! I'm also 2 weeks girl husband and father. I'm still adjusting especially the financial.

Those more exp how much u spend for baby per month? I calculated roughly milk powder is rm250 per month base on past 2 weeks. Diapers how much u all spend? Any others?

Ya I give her enfalac cos hospital born time give her this

Good day para ayah,

Ada sikit pertanyaan, mind sharing the frequency of changing diapers for baby?
- Tukar bila penuh?
- Tukar ikut time interval (tidak penuh pun tukar)
- or lain lain, etc berak...

Thank you.