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The first steps will probably happen at nursery. Some of them will never tell you. A mother posted that she was distraught about missing it. What she actually wanted, she said, was the "omg!!" moment the nursery workers would get. Not the steps. The gasp. Two nursery workers answered

Every photo you send your mum of the baby is saying something else, and you have never once typed it. At three days old it says: this is why I was in pain for ten months. At four months: this is what I am doing with every ounce of energy I have. At a year: this is why I gave up the life I had. S

Ask a parent when something happened and they go quiet. Ask them where, and it comes straight back. A mother wrote an essay about all the years she spent pushing one pram, right up to the afternoon she folded it flat and gave it away. There is not a single date in the whole thing. There are plac

Newborn eyesight: everyone repeats the same number, and it is missing a word. In 2009 a mother called HarryB posted a question she was embarrassed to be asking. Her first baby sat and stared at her all day, and turned to keep staring at her when her husband took over. She wondered whether it mea

One mother copied every line onto a strip of masking tape before she painted the hall, then stuck the tape back on the wall. Another family traced theirs onto tracing paper halfway through a renovation, four generations of them, on the inside of a broom closet door. One family replaced the doorfram

Long distance aunt problem nobody names: you get the birthdays and you miss the Wednesdays. On a Mumsnet thread about staying close to nieces and nephews overseas, one aunt described the thing that actually keeps her close, and it turned out to have nothing to do with the children. "I feel c

Grandparent names don't get chosen. They get assigned, by someone who can't pronounce them yet. One grandmother was Raggy for two years, because that was as close as her grandchildren could get to Granny. She still has the mug with it on. Another is Munka and has no idea where it came fr

Newborn reflexes come with expiry dates, and nobody hands you the list. Hold a two-week-old upright with her feet on something solid and she'll put one foot in front of the other. It's the stepping reflex not real walking, just her legs doing the shape of it and by around two months it

"the moon is sleeping." "my feet are hungry." "I love you more than pasta." they say stuff like this every day. can you remember what they said last month? write it down before the words change. #babymemories #funnybabyquotes #toddlerlife #newmom #capturethemomen

them crawling toward you won't last forever. one day they'll walk instead and you'll miss this. record it now. write down what they babble. take the photo when they pull to stand. 9 months goes fast. #9monthsold #babymilestones #babymemories #newmom #capturethemoment

spent 20 minutes setting up the perfect milestone photo. baby ate the letter board. took 47 blurry photos. the one where they're covered in drool is somehow the best one. the messy version is the real version. #milestonephotos #expectationvsreality #newmom #momlife #babymemories

47 photos of the same nap. 1 blurry action shot that's somehow the best one. 0 photos of you because you were holding the baby. every parent's camera roll. #babyphotos #momlife #newmom #cameraroll #babymemories