…and I have already been a mommy for 23 days! I already know my daughter’s signals, how to pump, how to warm the formula and how to feed her. I already know how to do diapers and baths and gas drops and eye drops. I already love her and we three are already a family. I still can’t believe I gave birth to her. She is so perfect…formed, yet evolving. It is an amazing experience. And I don’t have to go through labor today!!! Yay!!!
Been meaning to point this out… You are riding the crest of the latest baby boom. I am seeing new babies everywhere! Including two of friends.
Went for a bike ride in the canyon last week and there was this future playgroup of 13 Moms, all with new ones in snugglies out for a hike! Saw another yesterday.
Anyway, congrats and hope your internals are all fixed up!
Best wishes,
The Weekender
“Tic Tic Tic” is what it is (that is the maternity clock ticking there).
I think that very few couples can stick with their "I won’t have ANY kids feelings. They get to a certain age and think “Oh, just one.”
Biologically, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!! 
So, the “No Kids” generation is playing catch-up.
Well, not all of them. A good friend (now my lawyer, but a friend longer than a lawyer) and his wife agreed never to have kids and have stuck to just cats all this time.
Here was his reason: both his parents died at a fairly young age (in their 30s? No later than their 40s, I think) of natural causes. This left the children in the care of a rather casually selected guardian, who placed all of them in boarding schools. It was a pretty hideous way to grow up and, since he couldn’t be certain whether or not he’d inherited the early-death genetics, he didn’t want to do the same thing to his own potential children–so he didn’t have any.
We’re both in our 50s now, and he still happily refers to his family state as “child-free.” (He does have nieces and nephews, and he seems to be entirely content with that.)
M
PS–congrats, Jesse! Myself, I went almost 2 weeks late with my daughter and at the time would have much preferred a child who paid attention to the “schedule.”
I felt that way, about boomers when my first was born in 92. There was a new boom then, of mid 30somethings with the timeclock.
Advantage: my son, 3 weeks early, attended his baby shower.
Glad you’re happy, Jessie.
But still, when I first saw the title of this thread, I thought, Oh, lordy, she’s doing it again ALREADY!?!?!?!
Can’t help it - sometimes my mind works in strange ways.
Just think of today as Labor Day and take the rest of it off!
I thought the same thing! 
Hey why not? As the pediatrician says, one’s a hobby, two is a family!
My Mom always said you’re not really a parent until you have two. I always kind of took offense to that, until we had our second. Now I understand, Oh Boy do I understand. The best part is you wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.
Mark V.
My Mom always said you’re not really a parent until you have two.
I’m not a parent, but I’m the oldest of 5 children.
My parents have a saying like that. They use it to answer people who wonder how they can cope with that many kids:
3 is the hardest, but once you get that down, what’s a few more? 
Oldest of five, here, too. Mom had twins a little over a year and a month after me, and another less than ten months after that. Four whelps in diapers at the same time! Fortunately for her I up and potty-trained myself (so she tells me) shortly after the fourth was born. Yow. Small wonder she took a couple of years off before the fifth came along.
On a somewhat related note to this, every year on her own birthday, my wife calls her mom and wishes her a “Happy Labor Day.”
All the Best, Tom
You can renew your books over the telephone now in most public libraries … Oh 
That due Date!
Couldn’t help it, it was your subject line, and being a librarian … well you know …
I’m happy to here that things have settled down for you and your family.
Take care.
MarkB
Speaking of which, it soon will be Labour Day in several countries of the world.
The first thing I noticed about my first kid was his poop didn’t have that awfull stench that the babies I babysat for when I was a teen did. Amazing! 
