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10 Thoughts From the Fourth Trimester
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May 23, 2023 By Tim Urban
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Back in February, I wrote a [31]post about my upcoming [32]book that included a
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[33]big visual of the timeline. Just two weeks after the book launch, my first
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baby would be born. I’d promote the book, catch my breath, and then begin the
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new adventure.
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Thank god for those critical two weeks.
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The night before book launch was (obviously) a frantic all-nighter, and I
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eventually went to bed after 40 hours awake, exhausted and satisfied. We had
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done it. The book was live. It was over. I’d actually wake up tomorrow without
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this project hanging over my head. The sky would be blue. I’d finally be free.
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I woke up close to noon and felt at peace for three seconds before opening my
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phone and seeing three texts from my wife:
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[34][01_water-broke]
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Hm?
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I knew what water breaking was. But I didn’t know what it meant. Is the baby
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coming out now? Or was this one of the false alarms I had heard about and the
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baby is still a couple weeks away? Is there a chance she just peed her pants
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and is misdiagnosing the situation?
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After some rapid-fire googling, one thing was clear: We had to go to the
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hospital. Now.
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The drive was weird. I had pictured myself heroically driving a screaming
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labor-having wife to the hospital, but here I was driving normally to the
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hospital with a very normal wife next to me. Apart from her new leaking
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situation, nothing was different than it was yesterday. There was no way we
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were actually having a baby today. Right?
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Upon arrival, the PA assessed things and yes her water had broken, and yes in
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order to avoid infection that meant the baby had to come out now. Two hours and
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12 canceled book-promoting podcasts later, we’re in our delivery room, where my
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still-not-in-labor wife would supposedly be producing a baby sometime later
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today.
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Again, there was a major expectations-reality gap. I had pictured the day of my
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first child’s birth being impossibly frenetic and emotional and intense. But
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there we were, eating animal crackers and gummies from the
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treats-you-can-eat-while-in-labor bag, hanging out and chatting like any other
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day.
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My wife was hooked up to a bunch of tubes and machines and the plan was to see
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if contractions would start on their own as a reaction to her water breaking,
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but a few hours passed and nothing happened. Eventually, the nurse came in and
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poured a magical little chemical called Pitocin into her IV bag.
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And things started happening.
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Contractions began, which my wife described as “a really bad period cramp,”
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which helped me understand what they felt like 0%. Over the next couple hours
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they got worse and worse. I was quickly assigned the role of “don’t say or do
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anything” while contractions were happening, so I’d just kind of sit there
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awkwardly and watch with this face on:
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[02_em]
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Her epidural plan was something like “definitely get one but tough it out a
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little first,” and after a particularly awful contraction, she called it a day
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and the epidural team came in to do their thing. 45 minutes later, we’re back
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in the “I know this is the day of the birth of our first child but it sure
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doesn’t feel like it” zone, chatting and hanging out normally. After a few more
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hours, a nurse came in and checked on the dilation situation and was like
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“alright, let’s do this!”
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Once again, nothing like I pictured. I thought there would be a big team of
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doctors and nurses doing a whole big hectic thing and I’d be standing somewhere
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on the side. Instead, it was me and this nurse, each holding a leg.
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[35][03_birth-1]
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The game went like this: When a contraction starts, we each grab a leg and she
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pushes really hard for 10 seconds three times in a row. Then everyone chills
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and hangs out for a few minutes until the next contraction. And repeat.
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After a few rounds of this, it was clear this was not gonna work. Nothing was
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coming out. But we kept trying anyway.
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And then I saw it.
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The edge of an upsetting slimy pancake.
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[36][04_birth-2]
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When I asked what the upsetting slimy pancake edge was, the nurse told me it
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was my daughter.
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Uh huh.
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This then went on for a while. We’d do a round of pushing, the upsetting
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pancake thing would come out a centimeter and then go back in, and each round
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it would come out a few more millimeters. It was increasingly feeling like we
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really weren’t getting anywhere with this strategy when the nurse suddenly says
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“okay let’s deliver a baby!”
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She makes a call and a few minutes later a group of people come in, including
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the first doctor we had seen that day. The next contraction came along, I
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leg-held, my wife pushed, and then in the most surreal moment of my life, I was
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staring at a tiny screaming alien.
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[37][05_birth-3]
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___________
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That was 3 months ago. I’ve had a lot of thoughts since then. Here are 10 of
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them:
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1) A newborn is not a baby
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I thought it was gonna be like this:
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[38][06_fetus-baby-1]
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But it’s actually like this:
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[39][07_fetus-baby-2]
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A newborn is not a baby. Babies are cute and roly-poly and can see and are
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conscious and are normal and a newborn is not any of these things. It is a
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bizarre human larva that [40]acts super weird and would still be in the womb if
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it could be. The problem is, when humans went bipedal, our pelvises got
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smaller, and as humans got smarter, our heads got bigger. So evolution had to
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get creative. Its solution: all human babies would be premies, born when they
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were still small enough to pass through a human pelvis. The last couple months
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as a fetus would happen outside the womb, and everyone would just have to deal
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with that. This became incredibly obvious during the first month with my
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daughter. She was a raw human id not remotely ready for primetime. Thankfully,
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since then, a baby has grown around the id and now she has the figure of a
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miniature 390-pound 84-year-old woman.[41]1
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2) It is insane that there’s not some required training for new-parents-to-be
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If I want to drive a car, I have to take driver’s ed first. If I want to
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provide medical advice, I have to go to med school first. But after we had the
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baby, the hospital was like “don’t shake it k bye.”
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I know a lot of words I didn’t used to know. Meconium. Tummy time. Latching.
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Bicycling. Swaddle. Colostrum. I know how many ounces of milk and hours of
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sleep the baby is supposed to have each day. I know baby CPR and the baby
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Heimlich maneuver. I know how to induce baby burps and shits. I know how warmly
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to dress a baby. I know what temperature baby bathwater should be. I know what
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sleep training is and when it’s okay to start it. I know that you can’t just
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pick a newborn up, you have to pick all the pieces up at the same time or else
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the pieces fall off.
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[08_pieces]
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But I only know all of these things because I read books and articles and am
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fortunate to have people I can call with questions. And society’s current plan
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is to just expect/hope that every new parent does the same?? There should
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obviously be like a mandatory four-hour course every expecting parent has to
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take before they’re actually in charge of a newborn.
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Instead, people like to say things like “you’ll figure it out” and “just use
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your instincts.” You could apply the same logic to driving and people probably
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would just figure it out—but we don’t do it that way, because that would be
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absurd.
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3) Babies have giant heads*
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[42][09_heads-v2]
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*I made this visual thinking it was gonna emphasize how big baby heads are, but
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after looking at the big-headed guy on the right for a while, it started to
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look normal to me, and the normal-headed guy suddenly looked like he had a
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ridiculously small head. So now I’m realizing that the big takeaway is that
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baby heads are normal and the rest of our heads are tiny.
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4) Babies are incredibly overdramatic
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When a normal person is hungry, or tired, or needs to burp, they’re a little
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annoyed. Babies are in Shakespearean agony. And then comes the burp and one
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second later they’re like “sup.” It’s insane behavior.
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For a while, the range of baby emotion runs from Shakespearean agony to
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neutral, never entering the positive realm. Neutral is a newborn’s best-case
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scenario.
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[43][10_agony]
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After six weeks or so, positive emotion begins to make an appearance, but then
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they still go apoplectic at the slightest inconvenience.[44]2
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While we’re here, I know it’s bad but I can’t help it—crying babies are funny.
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My wife completely disagrees with me on this.
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[45][11_little-man]
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5) The parent-newborn relationship is super one-sided
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[46][12_one-sided]
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It’s weird—you have all of these intense feelings for this little person* and
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there’s just nothing to do with those feelings. I could squish her face, but
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then she’d cry and I’d be abusing a baby. In the early weeks, there’s just not
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really a satisfying outlet for your baby fondness and it’s annoying.
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One other one-sided thing is you’re apparently supposed to talk to your newborn
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even though they’re an unconscious fetus because it supposedly helps develop
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their brain. So now my baby has heard multiple versions of my next book
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outline, the full story of the rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire after I
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listened to a podcast about it, and a list of every World Series champion going
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back to 1990. Never once has the baby shown any sign of being affected by any
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of this.
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*That said, I’ve always thought of parental love as the most intense form of
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love—the kind where if you had a Sophie’s choice where your baby and spouse
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were both hanging off a cliff and you could only save one, you’d save the baby
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without a second thought. And…yeah I’m not there yet. I love this little
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creature a freakish amount, but as of now, I’m definitely saving my wife in
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that situation. Sorry kiddo. I’m sure Tim the Baby-Saver-Wife-Dropper will at
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some point emerge, but I guess it takes some time.
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6) Babies shit all over your schedule
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Obvious one, I know, but just check this out:[47]1 [48][13_sleep-graph-1] [49]
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[14_sleep-graph-2] [50][15_sleep-graph-3-750x242]
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These are the sleep graphs of three different babies, but they all have one
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thing in common: there’s no rhyme or reason in the early months, because
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newborns are dicks.
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7) It’s mathematically impossible to know if your baby is cute or not
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I think my baby is impossibly adorable, of course, but every parent thinks that
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about their baby, so that offers no information. Everyone who has met her or
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seen a picture of her has commented on how cute she is, but they’d say that no
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matter what she looked like—which I know as someone who has commented on the
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cuteness of babies ranging from perfect to hideous—so there’s no information
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there either. FYI, I once depicted what happens when friends visit someone with
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an uncute baby:
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[51][16] [52][16] [53][16] [54][16] [55][16]
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8) I’m a motor skills virtuoso
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It’s pretty amazing how bad babies are at everything. They’re terrible at
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thinking, at knowing anything, at moving all parts of their body. The cool
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thing is that spending time with a super unimpressive baby has made me super
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impressed by myself. Like I’ll watch the baby sitting in a [56]baby bouncer
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trying to reach for a little wooden flower one foot in front of her and she
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just flings her arm in the general direction and misses by a lot. Then I’ll
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reach for a glass of water and all of my joints work together to send my hand
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on a perfectly straight path through three-dimensional space, gracefully clasp
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my fingers around it using the perfect amount of pressure, raise it to my
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mouth, tilt it in perfect sync with the movement of my lips, and then return
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the glass to the table and gently place it down like an absolute genius.
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9) You don’t go from a non-parent to a parent overnight
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Some things are just too big for our little human brains to fully absorb. The
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bigness of the universe. The permanence of death. The magnitude of the [57]
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marriage decision, which I [58]once described like this:
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When you choose a life partner, you’re choosing a lot of things, including your
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parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your
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eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 100
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vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, your career
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therapist, and someone whose day you’ll hear about 18,000 times. Intense shit.
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A few months into fatherhood, this feels like another item in that category.
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When your baby is born, you will (hopefully) never live another day as a
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non-parent. For people who make the decision to do this, it is the BC-AD line
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of their life. It doesn’t mean you can’t still be you, but you are trading in
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one kind of life for another, with all of the pros and cons that come along
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with it.
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I don’t think I’ve been able to quite wrap my head around the bigness of the
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situation. A curious childless friend asked me the other day if I feel like a
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dad, and I surprised myself by answering “not really.” I mostly feel like old
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me that has this new delightful little thing living in my house. When I see
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friends with sentient kids actually parenting them, saying things like “that’s
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not nice, stop it,” whatever that must be like is as much of a mystery to me as
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it was three months ago. For me at least, it seems like a parent is something
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you slowly turn into as your first baby slowly turns into a person.
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Btw I’m now even more convinced than I was before that this is the most
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personal of personal decisions and no one should ever try to pressure anyone
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else to have kids—it’s way too big a thing to be anyone else’s business.
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10) Having a baby really makes you think about the future
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Every parent in history has brought their baby into a world with an uncertain
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future. But our future is the uncertainest. My baby might live a life a lot
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like mine, just a little more futuristic. Or she might live to 500. She might
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live most of her life with a [59]brain-machine interface implanted in her head,
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thinking with her own superintelligent AI. She might suffer through
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civilizational collapse. She might live in a world that would seem like utopia
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to us today. She might live on Mars. She might meet aliens. She might die in
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the apocalypse. There’s just no way to know. It makes all of those fun,
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exciting, terrifying conversations about the future hit just a little harder.
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[60][17_stars]
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More thoughts with comics:
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[63]10 Types of Odd Friendships You’re Probably Part Of
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[64]The Great Perils of Social Interaction
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[65]11 Awkward Things About Email
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If you can’t decide whether to marry your significant other: [66]The Marriage
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Decision: Everything Forever or Nothing Ever Again
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If you’re hearing everyone talk about AI and would like an overview: [67]The AI
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Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
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1. One thing I kept thinking during the first few weeks: it’s really weird
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that Einstein and Hitler and Shaq and Plato and Queen Elizabeth were all
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wiggly, flailing little aliens at one point.[68]↩
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2. Speaking of which, companies that make onesies that snap instead of zipper
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should be sent to the gulag.[69]↩
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1. Sources: [70]Graph 1, [71]Graph 2, [72]Graph 3[73]↩
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[74]Tweet
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