Anonymous wrote:
OP you sound like my wife. With our first child she didn't know how to change diapers and couldn't understand why my DS was crying. When we brought the baby home from the hospital she simply didn't know what to do I tried to be patient with her and help but after several days I could see that she simply didn't have any insight into what my DS was possibly feeling (hungry, wet, hot, cold, etc.). It was like night and day. I would hold him and he would quite down. She would hold him and he would cry. Taking care of a baby isn't very difficult if a person can empathize with the child and anticipate their needs.
I can kind of relate to this but won't say that it's easy for everyone to emphasize or be able to put others needs ahead of theirs. And I won't say that it necessarily makes them a bad parent. Some people just have their own ways of doing things. And either way I don't know if that is applicable to the OP.
Just skimming through the pages, I hope you don't feel like you're a bad parent OP. Maybe learning or whatever. Kids are kind of weird sometimes. Where for whatever reason they may latch onto one parent during their early years and all of the sudden latch onto the other parent. Which might explain why your kid may act up when you're trying to change the diaper. Also if you're nervous and uncomfortable they may pick up on it and get uncomfortable too. So try to relax if you can.
Hope things get better and work out for the best!