11 Things You Will Google When You Have A Baby
Parenthood transforms your web browser history like nothing else. Where there was once “Miley Cyrus VMAs” or “can I drink during pregnancy?,” there comes a new litany of adorable first-time parenting questions. A new parent’s anxiety about caring for a tiny new person easily manifests in a Google addiction that, sometimes, can make a frazzled mother or father even more detached from reality. But that doesn’t make you any less likely to scour the interwebs with the following inquiries.
Given an umbilical stump’s appearance, even a healthy healing stump can have parents looking for comparisons as well as triple checking any perceived funny business.
2. “Newborn mucus”
3. “Newborn sleep”
Whether you’re looking into getting your kid on a schedule or are concerned about sleep positions, you’ll be looking into this leg of the Internet a lot.
Colors, textures, smell. You will become the newborn poop expert.
You may have stumbled across this in one of your baby books, considered your baby’s cries, and decided to put two and two together. Whether your baby actually has colic should be determined by an actual doctor, but you’ll be starting your research here first. If your doctor just kind of shrugs and is like “colic,” you’ll be hunting through mommy forums looking for “treatment.” God’s speed.
6. “Breastfeeding problems”
7. “Is it normal….”
8. “Baby cries all day…”
9. “How long can I leave my baby…”
10. “Should I take my baby to the ER for….”
11. “Should I have another baby…”