Another milestone ...

[andy-hughes]

For the first time today, I cut a baby's fingernails!

My youngest daughter has Harry who is three months old, and she is a litte unsure about cutting his nails, so at lunchtime, I popped down, had a sandwich with her, we bathed baby, and when he went to sleep, I cut his nails. It was wonderful - just how tiny his fingers are, and how careful you have to be, it's just something that mums do, but I have never done it before, and it made a real impression on me, so i thought I'd share it.

[sara3]

ahh, you big softy :o)

hopefully you'll share lots of new things with your grandson x

[sherrardk]

When all of mine were really tiny I used to bite their finger nails as i couldn't bear the thought of going near their little fingers with a pair of scissors.

[backformore]

Did you not cut your own kids nails?

[society]

Cherished memory. Hope you took a picture of him sleeping while you cutting his nails.

[sherrardk]

My husband never cut our childrens' nails - it would never occur to him.

[andy-hughes]

Indeed sara, he is such a wonderfully happy little soul - he's just learned to laugh, and he laughs all the time, he is wonderful.

No backformore - my older daughters were six and four when my wife and I met, and she always attended to the youngest, I was a lot more nervous of babies then than i am now - Harry is Grandchild number four.

I'll do that next time society.

As I said to me daughter, this is one of the jobs that you only do for a while - far too soon children are independent. For that reason I never ever refused to pick up any of my children, knowing that in a few short years, they would be too big, and that chance would never come again, so i never wasted any oporunity. Likewise bathing, tying shoes, feeding, reading bedtime stories, tucking in - all the things that they grow out of of, but their parents never do.

[andy-hughes]

Sorry - I meant parents never grow out of doing, not that the parents never do these things - it's been a long day! Nail-cutting is exhausting you know!

[redcrx]

aww Andy, thats sweet.
I could never do it and had to get mr CRX or even my dad to cut the kids nails when they were tiny lol

[k8bailey]

Awwww can you come and do my daughters nails, I can manage her fingernails, but her toes are tickly even when she's sleeping!!

[zzxxee]

that is so sweet x