There is one thing I don't get about babies. Well there are tons of things I don't get including why everybody insists on buying pepto bismo pink for a girl or why people ooh and aah over every baby even though most look like grumpy old men when they are born
But what I really don't get is that when you are at the hospital they won't let you leave without making sure you watch some mandatory video on shaking your kid. I get that this is valuable but it's odd they don't make you watch anything about parenting, about safety, about smoking around your kid, feeding your new born hard candy, installing window guards, sleeping on their back, keeping guns locked away, avoiding pepto bismo pink on any number of other life saving tips for overtired and overwhelmed new parents.
But anyway you leave the hospital having had the not shaking thing drilled into your head only to get home to find the only thing that keeps your colicky newborn happy is sitting in her vibrating chair
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