Signs of a Healthy Baby

you'll get to know them better than anyone else. You'll start to hear the difference between their hungry and tired cries, and you'll know how they prefer to be rocked and burped.

Essentially, you grow more confident about your parenting skills with each passing day. If it weren't for the exhaustion and the hormones, you might even feel like you have everything under control.

But all it takes is a small, paranoid thought—Is my baby eating enough? Is all this crying unusual? Are they sleeping too much?—and you can easily fall into a spiral of anxious concern. You seek out friends and ask, "Do they look OK to you?" They say yes, but still, you can't help but worry.