 Baby QuotesHere are some of my favourite baby quotes. Use them in your scrapbooks, cards or read them after your baby spit up on your cashmere sweater. Sometimes a fresh perspective is all you need to feel the love again.
-- Frank A. Clark A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can. A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. A perfect example of minority rule is a baby in the house. Child rearing myth #1: Labor ends when the baby is born. Every baby needs a lap. Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma. Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving. Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
No one likes change but babies in diapers. People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources--all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry. People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
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