Thursday, September 26, 2013

Help! They Know What's Good for Me!


This has been a year of learning. First, it began with the pregnancy. It appears that absolutely everyone is an expert on absolutely everything. They’d kindly dole out all sorts of advice on how I was carrying my baby to whether it was a boy or a girl to what I should and shouldn’t be eating to how my delivery would go (we’ll call those the psychic lot who could look into the future and predict my childbirth experience). Then came the baby and with it experts on child rearing. In our day we didn’t do this, here’s why your baby’s crying, here’s why he isn’t crying, here’s what you’re doing wrong, etc. I’ve been told to ignore these words of wisdom but it’s fairly difficult to rise above it all and be patient, especially when I’m so severely sleep deprived. So instead I’ve decided to write about it in feeble hopes of getting it out of my system. That, and I have seven minutes to kill before my much-talked about baby wakes up again.

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