As I read books to the toddler, memories are flooding back

I know we have to forget stuff. Biologically speaking, we need to put some experiences away.

For example, if you’re to have any inclination to have another child, you need to forget a lot of the gorier details about how you spent the first year of the previous child’s life.

Yes, we know there were sleepless nights, slightly smelly shoulders, poo up the back (of the baby but possibly you if you had them in a sling and hadn’t secured everything properly).