Feeling Like a Failure...

The author of one of the blogs I check daily has posted a very timely (for me) post. Check it out. http://www.superherodesigns.com/journal/ (The post titled, "A Question For You Out There")
There's a lot about being a mom that I wasn't prepared for, but perhaps, the biggest, and hardest to deal with, is the feeling of being a failure. I'm lucky enough that things usually come so easy to me (and if they don't I know how to handle it), but not this. Not the baby stage. And Oprah made it a hundred times worse by having someone on her show teach us all what the different baby cries sound like and what they mean. So I thought, hey, I'll be able to do that. Nope. Can't do it. Is he hungry? Tired? Bored? Poor Mike, because if he asks me any of those questions I get very snippy. But really, I don't know and I can't tell.
I thought it would be easier the second time, but anything I learned from Quinn those first few months has been replaced with new things I needed to be able to do to keep up with his changes. That's the thing about being a mom/parent - the things keep growing and changing so anything that worked yesterday, last week, last month may or may not work today.