In the run up to having a baby, there seems to be so much that people don't tell you about parenting. There are books, and everyone has advice, but there are critical gaps... For example, I never knew:
- How much I want to cry myself every time my baby cries for more than about 10 minutes in one go
- How long something needs to go in boiling water before it is properly sterile
- How you can manage to keep it sterile given that everything else in the household is not - including me and the baby
- Baby books are full of 'advice' about sleeping which bears no resemblance to real babies and how they behave
- Ditto the above re feeding
- Ditto the above re crying
- There is absolutely no rational way to parent
- Babies continue to be an absolute joy, no matter how much of the other rubbish goes on
- I have no idea what I did with my time before my daughter was born
- I am so very lucky. A report last week gave the statistic that 1 in 133 babies in England don't survive past a week old. A shocking figure, and one that I have witnessed to be true through the experiences of others.
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