Why do we worry so much about constantly playing with our babies/not playing enough/not having long enough naps/taking enough milk at one go/never leaving our babies to cry a bit etc? I'm guilty of it too but in my parents' day (I'm 31) it seems like mums really didn't worry about such things and their baby just fell in with their lives much more easily. My mum looks at me as Iif I'm mad when I start to go on about my dd not having a long nap. I really don't think she ever timed the naps of my sister or I!!
I have one theory that this is because couples tended to have babies at a younger age, many mums did not go back to work until school age or beyond and so they had plenty of time to let issues just ride themselves out. As I (and a lot of other mums these days) am going back to work after 9 months, I feel that I shouldn't lose a minute with my baby so she comes with me whatever I'm doing, though I will still do stuff like housework while she's awake.
My mum's generation also tended to live closer to their family so had greater support from grandparents and other relatives.
Mumsnet is a brilliant and supportive website but do forums like this just make us obsess about our babies development and behaviour more than we would otherwise? What do other mumsnetters think?
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Do we obsess about our babies too much?
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Newmum1000 · 01/12/2006 09:23
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