This recent New York Times article
about how some babies are easier than others rang true for me this
week, but I did not need an article to tell me that. When we had our
first baby seven years ago, her different needs changed a lot of my
presuppositions about parenting. For example, we never wanted to use a
pacifier, but she was so oral we ended up giving her one. Our second
baby had different needs, and we did things differently with her. Our
third baby could fall asleep unassisted from the time she was a newborn.
Our fourth baby took all my nighttime parenting confidence and threw
it out the window. With him I had to give up on all my human efforts to
help/make him sleep, and prayed a novena to St. Jude, the patron saint
of impossible causes...
Confessions of a Catholic Mom and Philosopher's Wife
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