Bad Mom

You know all those times growing up when you calmed a baby by yourself or had fun playing toys with them or helped teach them to be good and some one told you that "you'll be such a good mom when you grow up!"

Good mom? Bad mom? Who's the judge??

Sometimes I feel like a bad mom: I eat something that gives my baby gas and she cries, I let her over eat and she spits up and cries, I can't get her to eat, I can't get her to sleep, etc. 

Or! When I do things that others deem as wrong: use media to entertain, feed her formula when I am trying to breastfeed exclusively, let her chew on my fingers, etc. 

Truth is, I've never been a mom and she's never been a baby. And while other people have more experience and great ideas, my situation is so unique--everyone's is. We cannot compare our success as a parent to those around us,

Sometimes it seems like all I want is to make her happy.  

If only that were simple :)