Reply #119: I don't know

[LeftyMom]

I had no significant experience with kids (I have a younder sibling but we're close enough in age that I don't really recall her infancy and certainly wasn't old enough to help) and for that matter didn't especially like them. When my son was born it really was a situation where instincts I didn't know I had kicked in, I went from being scared shitless about my ability to be a mother and utterly useless around babies to being very confident in my parenting ability within the space of 24 hours. I have to assume that's instinct, because it was such a powerful change and I'm really not that fast a learner or that confident in my capabilities otherwise.