David asks…
Desire to have a baby but unsure about ‘children’?
I know that question sounds like an oxy moron but what I mean is that I have always had a desire to have a baby but I have always been very nervous around older children. I am 25 years old and have been married for 3 years now and I like the idea of having a baby with my husband. It just feels like the natural thing to do to have my husband’s baby. I want to pass on our values to a child and experience pregnancy, but I feel like most of my interest lies in having and taking care of a baby and not so much around raising a child for years if that makes any sense. I imagine that this is somewhat normal for people to feel and that most people will not be uncomfortable around their own children. I’ve never been one of those people that just ‘loves’ children and swoons over them. I don’t have much experience with them and never know what to say or do. It’s not that I dont like them, I just generally suck at dealing with them and am nervous. Will this go away once we have our own kid? I feel a very strong urge to have a baby with my husband but am scared to death that I will suck at dealing with my child once they start talking and walking around.
Any thoughts?
Michelle answers:
I was the same way, I used to always joke and say once my kid turns five I’m going to put them up for adoption and make a new baby. Well…that isn’t the case now that I have children. Once you have children of your own everything changes, even your heart towards children. As your child grows so do you, you learn how to make things work and you love your child no matter what. My oldest is only one and a half but I can hardly wait for her to grow up! It’s funny how I used to dread having my children grow up and now I’m actually looking forward to it. Also, it’s another thing when it’s your own child. I love my children dearly but I really don’t like other peoples children. So just because you don’t know how to handle other peoples children it has no reflection of how you will be with children of your own.
Robert asks…
I am a Roman Catholic- but let myself down sexually, what should I do?
Well let me explain the situation. I am a seventeen year old male. I live in the UK- I don’t know what it is like in other countries, but here the media is full of sex, and all my peers are sexually liberal.
I am in a trick situation. I am a Catholic, with Roman Catholic values. I go to church once a week, on sunday, and sometimes midweek. I understand and to an exent agree with Catholic values, to live by a moral code that is natural law, (I know all about St. Thomas Aquinas’ work on Natural law. I know why we believe that sex is wrong unless done within marriage, love, and intention of procreation.
However, I simply cannot live up to this. I have an insanely high libido. I masturbate at least once a day. I am not a virgin, I reguarly have sex with my partner. We have been going out for nearly a year. I genuinly love her. We intend on getting married, and consider each other soulmates. We use contraception to avoid pregnancy.
This is almost a paradox in my eyes. What can I do. I love God, and am in every other area a devout Catholic (I do charity work, work hard at school, pray reguarly, among other things) but I let my self down sexually. What should I do? please comment, and I am open to all suggestions. Thankyou for your time and knowledge.
To those who say there is nothing wrong with masturbation- that is wrong. It goes against one of the fundamental precepts of what it is to be human- that is, to procreate.
Michelle answers:
If you feel masturbation is wrong, then it’s something you have to confess.
Tell all of this to your priest and ask for counseling. He will help you a lot more than anybody on R&S.
Susan asks…
I need advice on my marriage!?
I am 19 and have a six month old son and I am pregnant with twins. My husband is very old fashioned and expects me to cook clean and take care of him, the kids, and the house. I am fine with this but I’m already tired and he wants me to follow the same schedule that I did when I wasn’t pregnant and when I was pregnant with just one baby.
which is:
1. Do all nighttime baby care
2. Wake him up at 6:30
3. Have a full breakfast and the newspaper ready by 7
4. Clean the whole house top to bottom every day
5. Have the children fed and clean and in the play pen by 5:30
6. Have dinner hot and ready by the time he walks in the door at 5:30
7. Clean up dinner by 7
8. Put the babies to bed by 8
9. turn down the bed by nine
10. be showered and in sexy lingerie by 10
11. Make passionate and wild love to him
12. Start it all over again.
He has told me that I will follow this same schedule through the pregnancy and the birth of the babies. Also he has told me that I have to buy bigger maternity lingerie because he won’t stand for it if I don’t make love to him every night. I told him I might be to tired and he went into a rage saying that I am his wife and I will do as he says and that if I am to tired I can pack my bags and go live with my mother for the next nine months and he’ll find someone else to make love to him until I get my act together. I am worried that if I don’t do as he says he’ll kick me out or worse cheat on me. He says we will make love until my due date and that i will make love to him the second I get home from the hospital. Also I will be having an all natural vaginal birth. My husband is thirty and I am 19. If anyone could give me advice on anything in here it would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance.
Michelle answers:
Tell him to f off and show him the door. Leave why are you with an old guy just think how your kids life will be. Hes not worth it if you stay what a horrible life that would be
Thomas asks…
What is the best creams or natural products to fade old and prevent new, stretch marks? Second pregnancy!?
When I was pregnant with my son 8 years ago I had no complications with anything…no pregnancy sickness at all…nothing.
This time around, I am only 7 weeks and its absolutely horrible! But back to the point, I want my body to look better actually, after this second pregnancy. Im going to eat extremely healthy, continue working out etc. But of ALL the creams and tricks in the book for stretch marks, what is my best bet? I want these old ones to fade while im working on preventing any new ones!
FYI I know they wont disappear of course but I want them to look a lot better!!!!
Michelle answers:
I use palmers cream for stretch marks to prevent them i dont have any, but i heard bio oil really fades old stretch marks, its all about keeping the skin well hydrated, palmershas colegen and elastin, cocoa butterand vitamin e, very good for our pregnant bellies!
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