During and after the pregnancy, my wife’s adviser was my mother in law, “the most experienced” and “always” she knew almost everything. But why my mother in law advice required such attention?
Well, I assume because she’s seventy-two-year-old, she’s observed more marriages, many that worked and many that didn’t. And over the years, she has cataloged the cures for many diseases, pains, weather, food and how to take care babies.
Doing the math, my mother in law had access to the most significant number of “data” (myths), so my mother in law was kind of Big Data.
I enjoyed these myths during my nighttime reading (they made me laugh), but the big problem was that I don’t believe them, and from that moment I decided to take a big step in defeat those myths.
Where do I start? I thought in the back up of the Big Data: My Mom. I placed a call and asked her about taking care of a newborn. I was anxious for the real knowledge, and this was the short and concise advice:
“Get a nurse”
Well, I assumed my mom thought that I was a good for nothing on this topic. I said bye to Mom and please give my best to Dad.
And thus began the greatest challenge of my life.
“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.”
12 March 2017