Great Baby Truths

1. Everybody is always encouraging you to be a parent with beautiful portraits of parenthood. After the big announcement, the very same people will say, 'Enjoy whatever time you have. Once the package arrives, life will never be the same again!'

2. Irrespective of the age of your kid, parents of older kids will always tell you, 'It gets tougher.'

3. You will do everything you disapproved of your friends doing with their kids. You will take the assistance of the mobile phone, the iPad, the TV, the car at three in the night....

4. Every one else will always have better and brighter ideas than you about how to comfort your screeching baby.

5. Never try to force your baby to sleep. If by some miracle, you succeed, he will wake up just when your head hits the pillow.

6. The baby always wakes up when you have five minutes of the episode left.

7. Your playlist will undergo the biggest change from the latest chart busters to repeat renditions of 'Wheels on the bus go round and round..round and round...round and round'

8. You will see a sharp decline in the number of long drives. Unless, of course, you are okay with repeated renditions of 'Wheels on the bus' put on loop.

9. No matter how much you read up on baby forums or follow what the doctor says, you will eventually accept your in-laws' advice. It has worked on a real baby.

10. Here's the biggest truth of all. If you accept this, your life will be transformed overnight. Now take a deep breath and repeat after me, 'Babies cry'.