Ciara Quotes

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

Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head.

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

It's always hard - it's a little counterintuitive to leave your baby at any point during the infancy.

Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home.

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.

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.

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.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.

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.

If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone.

Most new moms, and even experienced moms, have questions in the months after giving birth. Pregnancy books don't explain everything, and you may be caught off guard by some things that are happening both to you and to your baby in those first few months.

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.

Having a child is a big life change, but the really hectic period is relatively short. You can get through it.

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

I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.

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've heard that babies cry all the time early on, which I'm fine with. But in my free time, I'm pretty sure I'll want to listen to something else.

I have big feet. Do you know how embarrassing it is when you ask for a shoe and they look at you like, "No, we don't make these heels for Bigfoot, sorry."

The first time I tried to put a new diaper on my baby, I yanked the little Velcro strap too jerkily and actually punched the little guy in the jaw. A real solid shot, too. I knew instinctively that this could not be correct. Unless you're specifically trying to raise a welterweight, continual deliverance of powerful uppercuts is not advised when handling newborns.

Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?

(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.