I must second what Pam said- it is a change that will impact you all the way down to your teeniest cell, in a positive way. The love you will feel is so completely overwhelming, and indescribable.


As to being nervous? I sure was! The first night? OMG...I didn't know how I was going to manage. But, you do. And, you will. Like millions of first time moms before you. As hard as it was for me to take this advice, you truly need to just 'go with it'. Do what feels right, and what comforts the baby.

Don't listen to a single idiot that tells you, "oh, just let him cry, babies need that..." Bullcrap, and bullcrap again. That was the biggest thing I had to deal with...when Jonah cried (and, really, he wasn't a big crier), I immediately went to pick him up and soothe him. It kept his nerves, AND mine, less frayed. I could go on and on about all the lovely advice I received about how to take care of my child, and how I was doing this and doing that, and he would never do this or do that....pfuey. Pfuey. Pfuey.