A decade later, a lot has changed in the world of motherhood (source: Boston Globe)

Babies don’t change much from one era to the next, but babyhood sure does.  At least that’s how it feels as I compare the arrivals of my two children, more than a decade apart. I gave birth to our son 12 years ago, and this summer my husband and I met our daughter in China, one week after her first birthday. OK, so technically that makes her a toddler, not a baby, and certainly there are plenty of differences between preparing for a newborn and bringing home a 1-year-old. But the two of them are so startlingly similar in temperament and habits – both alert, curious, and cheerful (or, as I say in my grumpier moods, lousy sleepers, into everything, and loud) – that it makes it easier to see that, even with only 11 years between their births, they’ve landed in two surprisingly different worlds. Click here to read full story.