After becoming a parent, you start seeing your former self and develop a new empathy for what you were when you were a child. Life turns upside down.They say that everything changes when you become a parent, but you really cannot understand until it happens to you. You start thinking of sterilising electronic devices, mobiles, remotes, in fact anything and everything around you. All you find across the hall are diapers and baby tissues.On a side note, you can use diapers as bookmarks and tissues to clean the dashboard of your car. When picking up another human to smell their butt is not only normal, but its necessery. And when she poops you do a silent dance.

Once you have a baby, the biggest change is that you are responsible for another human being. It is not like feeling responsible for someone, you simply are responsible for your child. You get to see things through the eyes of an innocent child, with wonder and amazement, your perception towards life changes. No matter how worked up your body is, you can still pick up the 30 pounds of trouble with your hands and carry it around the home doing your daily chores. 

Time is the change that happens when a baby comes into your life. It is no longer your own. You have no control over sleep or wake. You still need to go to a job, cook, clean, and manage chores, manage life inside and outside the home with even less time than you thought possible. Every waking moment revolved around the infant. Making coffee came after cleaning bottles, making formula, feeding baby, bathing baby, changing baby, dressing baby, getting baby to sleep or sit or swing so coffee could be made.

There is new meaning to your life now that steals your top priority, someone who you cannot imagine living your life without, someone you have only known for a year or two but have the control over the rest of your life time. Basically, you have another human being dependent on your emotional and financial support as well as physical support for a meaningful part of your life. It can impact almost every decision you make, and that can be a truly burdensome but yet truly gratifying because you realize your decisions can have such a meaningful impact. It is the greatest thing a person can achieve as well as the most terrifying. It is what makes us human.

One becomes something else. A ferocious protector, an over emotional wossy. Sure there are changes to your every day life, but that is just work. Feeding, changing dipers, singing, cuddling, but the big change is in you - psychologically. Suddenly someone is more important to you than you are. Indefinetly more important to you than your own life. There is a person, however miniscule, however useless, who becomes your whole world.

Babies are the most magical, most annoying, most surprising tiny beings. The miracle of the family is not that adults make children, but that children make adults.