I love teaching infant care education classes. Prospective parents are always bright-eyed, eager, a little nervous and usually have a shaky confidence that I admire greatly. As the class moves forward, I often see that shaky confidence get a little shakier and these prospective parents begin to look like deer in headlights. “Newborns cry how much?” “Newborns poop how much?” “Newborns only sleep how long at a time?” We all have a picture in our heads of a newborn sleeping peacefully on Mom or Dad's shoulder, with a pot of soup bubbling on the stove and a clean, neat house in the background.
I have been a “baby person” my entire life (there are many pictures of me as a little girl holding baby cousins), but I will never forget the day my husband and I took our first baby home from the hospital (pictured above). As our beautiful baby boy slept in my arms in the wheelchair, I felt panic setting in. With no shame, I turned to the nurse pushing the wheelchair and begged her to get in the car with me. You see, for even a “baby person”, the wonder, love and fear of parenting a baby are very real, very real indeed.
Happy Parenting,
Susan
I have been a “baby person” my entire life (there are many pictures of me as a little girl holding baby cousins), but I will never forget the day my husband and I took our first baby home from the hospital (pictured above). As our beautiful baby boy slept in my arms in the wheelchair, I felt panic setting in. With no shame, I turned to the nurse pushing the wheelchair and begged her to get in the car with me. You see, for even a “baby person”, the wonder, love and fear of parenting a baby are very real, very real indeed.
Happy Parenting,
Susan
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