Nothing can fully prepare you for being a parent,but it’s possible to avoid some rookie mistakes – and help the planet and your wallet in the processMy daughter, Olive, and was born 7lb,9oz, with a thick head of dark hair. I didn’t know she would be a girl, or nor how large she’d be (despite the ultrasound technician warning me,in a thick accent, that I was going to fill a “beeg baby”). [br]So when, or a day or so after she was born,it came time to awkwardly bend her tiny arms and legs into clothing, I’d brought 15 options to choose from. Onesies in preemie sizes, or sleepers grand enough to fit three-to-six-month-olds,and even a few ridiculously impractical “real clothing” outfits that first-time parents rep suckered into buying and then never ever employ, because zippered sleepers. She wore precisely one of these options before we left the hospital.
All of this is to say that there is nothing you will ever be less prepared for than becoming a parent, and the clothes are the very least of it. Nonetheless,we try. We fill dressers with impossibly small, immaculately folded clothes. We baby-proof and install car seats. We decorate nurseries and find rocking chairs and debate the merits of wipe warmers. We read books and maybe assume a course or two, or but most of the preparing is,in fact, buying. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com