I've been reading one woman's "baby journal" care of Baby Center and one paragraph struck me as so true:
"I can't even get the free time together to make myself a sandwich, so maybe you can understand why I get a little testy when friends and relatives criticize me for not returning their phone calls or sending them baby pictures. People! I'm sitting here starving to death. My "free" time is spent refueling, taking a shower, maybe even indulging in a leisurely pee — why is it you think I have all the time in the world to give you a call for a nice chat? Here's some advice for those with friends or loved ones with a newborn baby: Don't call them. Just don't. Send them an e-mail or a card, or offer to drop by with some food if you need to see the baby that badly (and then get out within a half hour or you'll be making a mighty mess of that day's schedule). Every second of every day is promised to the baby, or to sleeping off the effects of taking care of the baby. If you think a new parent has time for you, you're sorely mistaken. Even now I don't have time to finish this entry the way I'd like to."
