Happy New Year everyone! Thank you for visiting our forum at Infant and Baby Needs of New England. Let's see if we can begin some good discussion on the joys and challenges of having a new baby. I know for me my biggest challenge  was sleep deprivation. I knew not to make any serious decisions until I had at least 5 hours sleep at once, something that finally happened when my son, Ray, turned four months old. Like I could make any decision, I felt my brain was mush, and a rational thought went out with the 25 diapers I changed in a day. I always wondered how can something so little soil so many diapers?  And the outfits, did you think as well as I did that you had too many clothes? I quickly realized a little baby can soak clothes almost as fast I could change them. It was a new challenge for me, could I fully redress him before he wet through them. And better yet, could I dodge the streams as he relieved himself once again long before I even had the diaper under him. He succeeded more than I did at the beginning but I quickly learned how to change diapers, dodge pee streams and anticipate where they would land to prevent the new clothes from getting wet.  This was one of the larger  accomplishments for my first few weeks of being a Mom. I can laugh about it now, he is 29 years old and a Dad himself, but somehow 29 years ago with sleep deprivation, so much uncertainty on my ability to be a Mom and hormonal chaos, I believe I cried more than I laughed back in the summer of 1979.