I was at a friend's baby shower, talking to a woman around my mother's age.
I was at a friend's baby shower, talking to a woman around my mother's age. She heard that I recently had a baby, and she told me her biggest piece of advice is always to follow your gut as a mother. Mothers know their babies better than anyone, she said, so if you believe something with your gut, don't let it go. Now, when I first brought Ellie home from the hospital, I would have told you that I was skeptical of this advice. Her cries felt constant, and I couldn't decipher hungry cries from tired cries from gassy cries. I had no idea how to read my daughter, which was terrifying and overwhelming.