Byline: KAY MILLER - McClatchy Newspapers
Oh, baby, have things changed since 1977, when I gave birth to my older daughter, Kelly, who now is about to deliver her first child.
It's a girl. That is, if the visual cues from her ultrasound can be believed. Otherwise, I hope my grandson likes lime and lavender polka dots.
Kelly and her husband, Ben, have a staggering amount of information at their disposal, thanks in part to 90 bookmarked baby Web sites. Every week they get an online update from BabyCenter.com, tracking their baby's probable weight and length. They can follow debates over whether to immunize, best ways to bond with the baby and whether expert help is needed to install car seats. For medical questions, the press of a few buttons provides dozens of definitive (and some utterly bogus) answers.
I had Dr. Spock. I pored over his "Baby and Child Care" book so often, it automatically opened to the pages on colic.
If Kelly's generation sometimes seems a bit over the top, I'm struck by how clueless I was. When I was …
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