When you have a baby, your mind plays tricks on you. It makes you forget things about life with a newborn... things that if you didn't forget, you would never have any more kids.
Things like:
1. You will get maybe 10 hours of sleep in the first three days. No, not 10 hours a night... 10 hours of a 72 hour period.
2. Newborn babies sound like baby pterodactyls when they cry.
3. Meconium. Enough said.
4. 2 hours of sleep + feeding + 2 hours of sleep + feeding + 2 hours of sleep + feeding does NOT equal 6 hours of sleep. It equals 3, two hour stretches of sleep. This is not enough.
5. I am a human pacifier.
6. Newborns have an innate alarm that triggers screaming the moment your head hits the pillow.
7. Umbilical cords are gross.
8. You know that whole - "Sleep when the baby is asleep" rule? Yeah, you can't do that when you have two other kids.
9. People who say that a breast fed infant's poop doesn't smell are liars.
10. Newborns peel. I forgot that that they peel. My daughter looks like an alligator.
But the reason you have more kids, even after you forget 1-10 listed above? Because of this:
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