After all the months of preparation and the excitement of the birth, you’re back home and at last you’re a family. Now you can get down to the serious business of learning how to care for your child as he grows and develops from a small, vulnerable baby to a social, communicative one year old. It’s immensely rewarding, but there’s a lot to do and it’s a full time commitment from the start. Finding A Pattern

When you become a new parent, perhaps the most difficult thing to adjust to is the fluidity and unpredictability of your new life style. Most people’s lives have very distinct patterns, based on doing roughly the same things at roughly the same times, and they feel disoriented if this structure dissolves. Alternatively, you might be used to doing what you want exactly when you want to do it. Bur trying to impose this sort of order lines’s on a young baby is the equivalent of spitting into the wind. If you can both relax and follow your baby’s lead, a pattern of some sort will eventually emerge. Following Your Baby’s Lead

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