My son sat burbling happily in his Exersaucer - the same one I'd spent weeks upon weeks carefully selecting as he rolled this way and that inside me. I'd spent months painstakingly researching each baby item I bought with the same feverish intensity I'd once brought to my Overachieving Scholastic Career. While it might sound like a particularly nefarious torture, I'd never been more blissful.
It wasn't always like this.
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