Learning to Sit Up & Not Stressing Over Milestones

Jackson is learning to sit up with assistance.  He has also recently started rolling over in both directions.
I am so proud.

Before you are a parent you don't understand why parents are so proud of their children for doing the most mundane things. Now i get it, every milestone has me so excited, and taking a million pictures. When he learned to put a toy in his mouth, i beamed.

When you become a parent for the first time, you read a million books, and research everything (at least i did). As the days pass, most new parents wonder, when will he learn to focus on a face, when will he bring his hands together, when will his neck become more stable, learn to bat at toys, grab things, sit up on his own....

We have to learn not to stress over these things. All babies are different, and they learn at their own pace. Grow at their own pace. Guidelines are meant to be just that. Guidelines. It doesn't mean that your child is more or less advanced, smarter, or better in any way if they do things before or after they should.

If you have a baby that is just taking a little longer, relax, and don't listen to all "those moms" who think their kid is freakin' Einstein because he put his own sookie* in his mouth.

Now, here is a picture of my far superior child, reading at three months old. He can say tractor in three languages.

*soother