I will confess I was a shocking mother the first few weeks my bubs was around. I had no idea what i was doing, and the poor darling suffered a bit because of it. I had been to antenatal class but it didn't cover a lot of the settling/tired signs kind of stuff and my instinct didn't kick in and tell me what to do.
I got better after going through all that with the mcn, but bubs was about 8 weeks then. And nothing instinctual kicked in for me till ds was about 4 months.
But we are all in tune and riding with the flow now...