So, should I wait until after the umbilical's cut to introduce myself, or...
We get it. You can’t wait until your baby quits feeding on you from the inside and instead becomes a completely dependent mass (with fully functioning lungs!) outside of you.
And yes. We understand that you’re hoping one day that your kid will look something like you, maybe say or do interesting things, take care of you when you’re old and feeble.
But, either you meet your kid when it’s still in the womb, or you never meet your kid. Because if you don’t introduce yourself properly to the child when it’s in the womb, ideally at or near the point of conception, you won’t ever meet your baby. Because it’s going to spend a lot of time becoming. Babies don’t freeze in time for you to get to know them.
At least, not until they’re out of the house and you have time to consider the levels in what Harry Chapin was laying down in “Cat’s in the Cradle.”
And by then, of course, it’s too late.
