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M y friend recently told me about this horrible  baby shower for this girl at work.  I was telling my daughter about it and I  said "that's it I didn't have a whole  chapter in my book about what not to do  to pregnant women, what the worst  kind of things you can do with the baby  shower. At this work shower they they had  nothing for the pregnant woman to drink. T hey'd gone out they bought all this  alcohol they didn't have a freaking  sparkling water or nothing for the  pregnant woman and that's just the start! They didn't have food she could eat they  had old deli sandwiches and she doesn't  eat the deli meat I mean  it was just like bad bad bad bad bad  bad and it makes people's lives harder  than they need to be this  expectation and that's what we do  because it's what is "fu n". I t doesn't  take much  to see that all those people bought  all of that stuff for themselves,...

 HOW TO GET YOUR NEWBORN ON A SLEEP SCHEDULE Most babies will have one long spell of sleep and of course it's going to be your objective to get that in the night as quickly as you can . If you know they have a four or five hour crash after they've had a good feed that would be great if you managed to wangle that in the night and then maybe they just wake up for one more quick feed and you sleep for another two or three hours and that's how we survive in the early weeks with a newborn baby. By two weeks you want to ask does my baby know night and day, is baby up more in the day and sleeping more in the night? We don't know what your baby's going to come out and be like but that's certainly always going to be our objective, to get them into a sleep schedule. Now we don't want to do that by ignoring babies at night. We just want to make sure mom and dad are the ones that are setting babies scheduled. We are creatures that like schedules and so start your bedti...