You are doing fine, dare I say confident, and then BAM a baby books tells you how bad you suck at motherhood, and that you are doing it ALL WRONG! Every theory and parenting practice claims they are the right way backed with research, and you dabble with a few “best feeding schedules” or  “the only righteous way to let your baby self-soothe” ideas only to feel like you are trying to finagle a rhino into a mini-skirt. I have a four year old who joined our family sleeping 12 hours a night without waking so this baby thing is foreign. All baby books aside I have to tell you that I have had the sweetest time just trusting my instinct and praying through the crazy moments. It hasn’t been all peachy but I’ve made it to bedtime every. single. night.

The only baby book that didn’t make me want to scorch my eyes with a blow torch was Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman

Parenting is hard work and taking care of a baby, feeding it and keeping it kicking, tests every ounce of will power you have swimming in your veins, so do your thing, not your mama’s thing, not your neighbor’s thing, your thing. No one knows your baby like you do. So if you need to burn recycle your old baby books do it! YOU GOT THIS! I’m not saying don’t educate yourself, but I am saying don’t be a slave to a style of parenting that doesn’t work for you. Mama, you were born for this. I know it!