Kelli O'Hara Quotes

About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

I love babies - I love being with them. As for acting with them, it's kind of hard because they don't know how to act.

I grew up with babies, so babies have never been particularly intimidating to me.

I've just always loved babies, even when I was a baby.

I have realised that baby care needs a lot of time management.

I certainly love getting to know the babies if I'm going to be working with them.

When my daughter was born, I was a stay-at-home dad for the first two years.

Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I'm going to be a real mommy.

He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the baby would stop crying. It was really cute.

I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.

It's not difficult to take care of a child; it's difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child. Trying to clean up the kitchen after you've had a baby is a nightmare because you have to wait for the baby to be asleep, you're exhausted, and you really don't want to clean up the kitchen now.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my baby. There is a period of time where a baby is born where the next 3 months is harrowing. A lot of people say it's the most wonderful time, but for me it was harrowing.

There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.

My dad loves babies. He's really good with them and is a big family man.

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.

Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.