What They Didn't Tell Me #2

Here are a few more surprising, shocking, hilarious, and (almost always) helpful insights:

• You might start a journal/log that includes every poop your child makes, every time your kid pees, and every time your little person eats. You might do this longer than you think. You might do this longer than your husband thinks is necessary. You might think this is normal. You might be okay with that.
• The literature says sleeping "through the night" is five hours. You might disagree with that.
• Your baby might "sleep through the night," but that doesn't mean you will. Your alarm clock is now obviously internal. And, if you don't do something about your internal alarm clock(s), you'll wake up in a pool of your own milk. (See "What They Didn't Tell Me #1)
• Just when you think your husband has it so easy and he doesn't do anything, you realize how irrational you are. While you were taking a leisurely bath (the doc suggests 20 minutes 2-3 times a day!), he made the bed and replaced the comforter with your wedding quilt. You realize he loves you. 
• You might defend your husband's abilities to change a diaper/swaddle/parent your child. You might defend this publicly. You might be face-to-face with another new dad (with a lot of machismo) at a social engagement and have to talk yourself down from your soap box (because your husband is off changing a diaper and you are left to your own devices).
• When encountering other couples with babies, you might observe them as though they are their own ethnography. They are. You might realize that your little family has some things figured out. You might use the word egalitarian to describe your arrangement. You are definitely okay with that.
• Taking naps is a gift even though you feel like you are missing out on life/summer/precious time to complete the pile of "to-dos."
• It's okay to send your husband to bed. He needs naps, too.