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Giggles and Coos From You!
50 Ways to Know You've Adjusted to Life with Baby
By I.J. Schecter
24. You feel curious flutterings that may just be the suggestion of returning libido.
25. Some of your clothes stay stain-free for nearly a week.
26. You hear about major events within several days of their actually occurring.
27. You're able to stop and chat with your partner several times per day, sometimes for 30 seconds or more.
28. You're able to drive to the supermarket and back without once dozing off.
29. Your laundry room no longer resembles a missile testing site.
30. When people see you, they think it actually is you, as opposed to one of the walking dead.
31. Comments from those you run into have changed from "Boy, you could really use some rest" to "You know, you don't look so terrible."
32. Your mother calls once a day to check in instead of three times a day.
33. You're 10 percent certain you know the location of your car keys, purse and cell phone.
34. You had time to assemble an outfit this morning that comes pretty darn close to matching.
35. The crossword sitting on your bedside table is now more than half done. True, it's from three months ago, but you're getting closer.
36. You realize you actually watched an entire Friends rerun uninterrupted, not counting commercials – and you even enjoyed those.
37. The visual hallucinations caused by those first few months of sleep deprivation have now settled into much more manageable garden-variety exhaustion.
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