Today I conducted some field research on a 6 month old male baby.
Maybe this was a bit excessive.
Okay, not really 'field research', I was just hanging out with my friend with a baby. :)
It is really interesting to be actually playing with a baby while I'm planning for one of my own and reading up on baby science. It is fun to compare what I'm reading against what the reality of a real baby is.
It also makes me realize that reading a lot of general things about babies is making me kind of confused about what they can do when. I was asking all sorts of random questions about abilities babies have and my friend laughed a bit as I was way off on some things. She told me not to worry, that I'd know if my own baby could do X or Y (like sit up on his own... which I found out this baby can't when I walked off and left him sitting up, sending mom running across the room to put a pillow behind him).
It makes me wonder if I'm over preparing now and if all this info is just going to be mixed crazily in my head.
How much research and preparation did you do when you were planning for a baby?
Read a couple books, talked to an OBGYN, read some reputable sources on the Internet, talked to my Mommy :)
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