Once a Mommy, Always a Mommy
I love the "What to Expect" series. But since my kid turned 4, I've been at a loss without a WTE book to guide me. So when I came across What to Expect: Your Baby's First 75 Years, in Esquire Magazine, I was pretty excited. And yes, it is quite useful. For instance, discussing the sleep patterns of your baby at 20:
Your baby will probably move from his crib to an intermediate sleeping arrangement such as a "futon." His normal bedtime may shift to 2:00 A.M., and he may need his "security bong" to finally go down for the night.
The article offers advice right on through to 75, when your baby will begin babbling again, sprouting hair from all sorts of interesting places, and mastering new grasping abilities, like counting change in the supermarket with 14 people in line behind him.
Anyway, for moms-to-be, baby moms and toddler moms, definitely tap into the What to Expect series, if you haven't already. Measured against their standards, I felt as if my normal
pregnancy, birth and child were way way WAY above average. Here's what
they teach you:
WTE When You're Expecting:
It's basically a miracle if you have a totally normal pregnancy and
birth experience, considering the 7 million things that can go terribly
terribly wrong.
WTE in the First Year:
Your kid is definitely a genius. In retrospect, the book's
month-by-month milestones are set so low a pet rock could meet them.
But you don't know that at the time, so you feel pretty darn great that
your baby babbled nonsense at six months old since you really shouldn't
expect that to happen until about six years old and some kids never
babble even as adults and that's all perfectly normal.
WTE the Toddler Years:
So your 2-year-old is tantrumy, stubborn, clumsy, picky, bossy, selfish and plain all-around disagreeable? Consider yourself lucky. It could be so much
worse.
What to Expect: The First 75 Years [Esquire]
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