tuning into the baby channel: all baby all of the time

Jerry Seinfeld has said:

The funny thing about being single… see I had married friends and I wouldn’t visit them when I was single because I thought their life was so pathetically depressing.

And then, now that I’m married and I have single friends, I feel I don’t really like to be with them now `cos I find their lives trivial and meaningless.

And I think in both cases I was correct.

Substitute ‘single’ for ‘childless’ and ‘married’ for ‘parent’ and you have an idea of our experience of the chasm between these states of before and after. When we didn’t have a child we really didn’t think about children much, them being small beings belonging to other people … now that we do have our own she is the absolute focus of our attention.

Everyone says your life changes when a baby comes along, but you have to experience it for yourself to understand how totally. It’s not just the different things you have to do (feeding, changing and settling making up a good proportion of the day) but how you feel - we can spend hours just staring at her and cuddling her - marvelling at her wonderfulness. All she has to do is be herself - a lovely little baby who is now more interactive - making eye contact and smiling at us - melting our hearts and adding so much to our lives.

Okay, I guess this is quite a soppy post, different to the ones that have gone before, but like I said, now we’re living on the flipside.