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Question: Sending husband to the store for baby items?

(Posted by: ☼H*L*N☼ on 2009-06-10 09:33:01)

So I was talking to a friend of mine this morning and she was laughing and telling me how she sent her husband into the store to get some baby food, when he came out he has about 10 preschooler meals, and that was it, her sons like 6 months old. So it reminded me of the time I sent my fiance to the store for baby food and diapers, I wrote a list of the exact baby food we needed, and what size diapers, he came home with 30 jars of banana baby food, and a box of size 5 diapers for our 7 month old. So I was wondering is this a common mistake for fathers? I& #039;m not trying to bring anyone down I would just love to hear some funny stories, it& #039;s been one of those days and I need some cheering up! Bradens mommy - too funny! My fiance also got every stage of bananas, all I could do was laugh :)

Posted by: magnolia_76 on 2009-06-10, 09:37:20

♦ My husband had done pretty good with the food and diapers, but he does seem to want to by toys that for much older children.

Posted by: Proud on 2009-06-10, 09:37:40

Maybe I 'm gloating, but I must admit that my husband never did anything like that. In fact, I didn 't even have to ask for him to go get a certain item. He 'd come home with a grocery bag full of necessities and say, "I noticed we were getting low, so I picked some more up ". *Big, proud smile*

Posted by: Jill P on 2009-06-10, 09:39:16

My husband usually gets it right, but he does need a LOT of detailed instruction. I don 't hold it against him -- he works full time and travels a LOT for work, and I stay home with our 8 month old son, so of COURSE I 'm more up on the details. If the roles were reversed and I had to do his job for a day, I would need plenty of detailed instruction and would surely make a few mistakes!

Posted by: ~*~Braden's Mommy~*~ on 2009-06-10, 09:39:55

OMG yes lol. My boyfriend can 't seem to get anything right for the baby! I asked him to go to the store and get some rice cereal for our son when he was like 5 months old and he came home with a box of minute rice LOL. Guess he didn 't quite get it! He also brought home size 1 diapers for our 18 pound 7 month old a couple weeks ago. He 's also terrible with the clothing. He can 't seem to grasp that he needs to go by weight not by age. Our little guy has always been a big boy. He 's in mostly 12 month sizes now because he 's so tall, but every time his daddy tries to buy him clothes, he goes strictly by age. Oh well, at least he 's trying lol Hope your day gets better!

Posted by: momoftwins on 2009-06-10, 09:40:00

No actually the roles are reversed in my home. Since my SO is the the SAHD, he knows more about what the kids need than I do. I go to the store and get size four diapers, he says "Jr 's not wearing 4s anymore, he 's fives now " Or I get a meal with carrots in it "Sierra doesn 't like carrots, she only likes so and so vegetable " So I tell him from now on, you get all baby items they need.

Posted by: Star on 2009-06-10, 09:40:36

Yeah guys can be like that - it is funny ... but we mustn 't be too hard on them lol .. I can 't wait to see what my Hubby will come with .. I can only sit here and imagine chuckling = D

Posted by: frank on 2009-06-10, 09:40:43

There are too many numbers and letters on the diapers. There are too many jars of food that sound good for US to eat. We are simple creatures. We do a better job of teaching the baby to get the remote or a cold drink from the fridge. Lol.

Posted by: eml on 2009-06-10, 09:40:53

Mine will ALWAYS call from the store to make sure he is getting the right thing or I show him the package of what exactly to buy. Otherwise he 'd show up with the wrong thing all the time.

Posted by: #1 baby harley due in 11 days!! on 2009-06-10, 09:41:08

When i write something down and write a description he is usually really good about getting stuff

Posted by: Army Wife w/ Two Kiddos on 2009-06-10, 09:41:45

Oh gosh yes! I had sent mine in for formula called Similac in the dark blue can with a bear on it. He brought back some off brand formula in a green can, and a stuffed bear. Then when he went back he brought back every kind of formula.

Posted by: Kaedyn's mom on 2009-06-10, 09:42:21

I can 't think of anything off the top of my head but that is some funny stuff. but the first time my husband changed our son, we were still in the hospital, i was in the bathroom and he said he was going to change him. i told him to wait cause my hubby had never changed a baby before. well needless to say he didn 't wait and i heard "oh, crap " so i was trying to hurry. and apperently as soon as he took off the old diaper our son peed all down my husbands shirt. i thought it was pretty funny.

Posted by: babygirlz3n2 on 2009-06-10, 09:42:39

Mine is pretty good at knowing the size our daughter wears..Baby food, he knows what stages, but there are alot of guys who just like to get what they can and leave. me, on the other hand could stand there forever picking and choosing and looking for different kinds of yummy things to try!...lol

Posted by: Britney on 2009-06-10, 09:42:55

My husband is usually pretty good. He does call me while he is in the store and make sure that it is a size 3 diaper and not size 1, lol BUT, I will say this.... I will get the baby ready for bed and I ask him to hand me a sleeper, he hands me an outfit. I ask him for a onesie, he gives me a decorative one. One time he got my daughter "ready " and she had on a white onesie and ruffle socks that were up to her knees and he thought that looked okay, lol When she was born he didn 't even know what a sleeper or onesie was. He is learning though! = )

Posted by: Ethan's mom! on 2009-06-10, 09:44:29

Haha, that 's too funny! Thankfully my husband is soo good at getting things we need! He 's pickier about what our son eats than I am at times. I actually bought the wrong size diapers once! To be fair my son was 3 weeks old and that entire month was blur!

Posted by: ~LuCkY~ on 2009-06-10, 09:46:29

My story is slightly different but still baby related. We needed to go grocery shopping and I was sick and exhausted so my husband offered to go and take the baby with him (who is always a happy baby at the store because he just loves looking around). I wrote down a list of things I needed and gave him a prescription to get filled. He 's told me he didn 't need a list because I eat the same things all the time and he knows what I want...but I gave him the list anyways. When he got home he hadn 't bought one thing that was on my list, forgot to fill the prescription, and bought food for 10 days of dinner but no breakfast, lunch, or snacks! LOL He said the baby was getting cranky so he couldn 't concentrate. So while he tried to help out, I ended up having to go anyways.

Posted by: Lisa on 2009-06-10, 09:48:25

30 jars of bananas? Is your son part monkey?.....well babies do kind of resemble monkeys....maybe your husband was confused....ha ha

Posted by: Erin H on 2009-06-10, 10:05:24

My husband is pretty good with picking up stuff for our son but he embarasses me to no end when he dresses him. For instance, we have a bunch of pictures from when my son was tiny and always in pj 's (winter baby) where the crotch was completely unbuttoned, cause my husband 's theory was that he 'd inevitably poop and pee again, so why bother to button him. Once when he had to get him ready for daycare, he put him in a blue gray shirt, black knit pants, and lime green and electric blue socks. More recently, he sent him in a red romper and blue socks. I am sure they can guess the rare days when dad 's gotten him ready!

Posted by: angedelapitie on 2009-06-10, 10:11:33

My husband has not gone to the store by himself for anything other than diapers and he did good with that, but when we go to the store together and I am getting us groceries, he will go the the baby section and cereal and baby food and he always does good with that too. My only problem is him buying other things he has no clue about on impulse. I always buy clothes that are out of season and on sale in the size she will need for that season(she 's pretty dependable on sizing) but he likes to do the same thing and buy her clothes that are out of season in the size she is wearing right now. He came home the other day with tons of long sleeve shirts and pants that are 9-12 months, which she wears now and it 's the beginning of summer :)

Posted by: Brayden's Mommy on 2009-06-10, 11:05:02

Im sending my b.f to get a potty trainer,. we 'll see how that goes lol

Posted by: mommy to a sweet little man on 2009-06-10, 11:31:40

My hubby *generally* gets it right, but he does have a tendancy though to forget that I have some things here (like a container of prunes that I put in the proccessor with a little water if our son gets constipated - he always thinks I need to go get some more prunes or something)... his worst thing though is I can ask him to pick up something for me and he always asks "where is it at in the baby section? " Can be the same thing that I always have to get him to pick up and he never remembers where on the shelf to find it... Course though, I did have to get him to pick up some pedialyte for our son one time and instead of just getting 1-2 jugs like I said to get he got about 4-5 jugs instead...so I have a few things of pedialyte left over that have been hanging out unopened since our son was 8 months old...