The first year of life

Within the first few days you forget what it was like before they were here. You can't remember ever being without them.
After a few weeks that fragile little eating and sleeping machine is gone and you see a little face watching you and ,if you are lucky, smiling.
A few months pass and you are trying to show your friends that your baby can roll over.
By six months you can't remember that little infant anymore. Sitting, clapping and babbling, every day your baby seems to do something new. Then comes the crawling and you realize that your house is a death trap and you need to childproof everything (if you have more than one child your realize you overdid it on your first).
At nine months you are in the home stretch on your way to the first birthday. You begin to plan a party that they will never remember.
If this is your first child the party is a right of passage for you.
Your child has survived. You have survived.




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