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Where I Did Not Know and possibly Got It Wrong

There’s no shortage of sticks and the opportunity to beat yourself with them in parenthood.   It’s a minefield.   Maybe it gets easier with subsequent children, but for firsts or onlys, every day has got the potential for you to do something wrong.   Doing stuff wrong is an alien concept for me.   I’m a planner, a thinker, a reviser.   I treated pregnancy like I did my academic qualifications; reading, research, planning.   I didn’t go into it half-baked, and much of the research was focussed on how to get a girl.   Grapes and strawberries, apparently. Copious bowls of Frosties and eggs (not together, I’m not an animal) were also part of my diet, but I was well pregnant by then so imagine they didn’t have any impact on the pink or blue issue.   I wanted a girl, and was willing to take a bit of dubious advice.   I’m no scientist, who am I to argue?   Anyway, I Got It Right.   Early babyhood was approached similarly, and really, there’s not that much to get wrong. So, from right