Holly Marie Combs Quotes

Infants need the most sleep, and, what is more, get it. Stunning them with a soft, padded hammer is the best way to insure their getting it at the right times.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

I don't sleep, but I've got two little kids that don't sleep, either.

You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.

The way that you parent, you ease into every stage.

It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.

I think I'm a really hands-on mom.

I'm a childless woman, yet I felt no maternal urges whatsoever. The prospect of years of broken nights and nappy changes holds no appeal for me.

They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.

Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.

Nothing really prepared me for the amount of work, or the amount of rewards, that came with being a new mom.

I don't know what to do with babies.

Baby's room should be close enough to your room so that you can hear baby cry, unless you want to get some sleep, in which case baby's room should be in Peru.

Now it's not D.T.F., It's now, diapers, tantrums and formula.

Babies just change everything. You have to become super-selfless and super-tired and super-amenable to change. They just change all the time.

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

I have a four-month-old and I also have a toddler, so that takes up all of my time.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

I've been doing things myself in the sense that I haven't had a night nurse or anything like that, so I've spent every night with baby except for the nights that I've had to travel.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

The baby woke up before you did. I took him to the other room to let you get a little more sleep. We've been watching a game." "Did he cry?" "Only when he realized the Astros were having another first-round play-off flame out. But I told him there's no shame in crying over the Astros. It's how we Houston guys bond.