I'm fairly confident that I was nothing but a big old ball of stress before I had my first baby. In fact, I was a big old ball of stress when I had my second baby too. What can I say, I knew NOTHING about babies. An only child, I never had a lot of exposure to babies and so when mine came along, I was going solely on instinct. Believe me, I searched high and low for that manual at the hospital and I couldn't find it! Can you believe that? If I could go back now and talk to my younger, much …