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Been There

4/25/2013

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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

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10/14/2013 06:19:19 am

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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