I welcomed my daughter in November 2021.  Leading up to her arrival, I felt pretty confident that my experience as a pediatric Nurse and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner would make for a smooth transition to parenthood, so I never really felt a need to read the “what to expect” books.  I did after all spend two years in grad school endlessly studying infants and children and was at the time practicing in Developmental Pediatrics.  Wasn’t that enough preparation?  No, unfortunately, it was not.