Serious Business

Milo and Olivia Have a Snuggle

I like to imagine, sometimes, living and raising a child in, say, Chauvet, France 30,000 years ago.  They didn't have cars, so they couldn't have had any incredibly heavy infant car seats that a five foot three woman would look ridiculous carrying into a CVS (at least the cave paintings don't bear that out).  They wouldn't have had pharmacies where the formula is kept behind lock and key.  They wouldn't have had formula because that's what boobs were for.  And babies wouldn't have had milk protein allergies (or peanut allergies or what have you) because: survival of the fittest, bitches!

I am by no means suggesting that all of the enormous strides that have been made in medicine, technology, and food science aren't valuable.  They are.  Helping kids and families is good work, and I'm grateful for the people who do it, however, the ubiquity of items and services that are available is often confusing, redundant or useless and, in the end, just plain overboard.  It's hard enough for a new parent to maintain her sanity on very little sleep without trying to navigate the world of problems and the products that exist to 'solve' them.  Just sayin'.