I was a closet Milestone Mommy. I used to obsess about the timeliness of my child reaching predetermined milestones—even while still in the womb. I’ve always been a little extra; extra dramatic, extra paranoid, extra competitive— extra special, so pregnancy gave me a wonderful excuse to exploit my extraness. Everything was an opportunity to be noted, compared, studied, explained, and examined. I spent a lot of time researching when the baby would develop certain abilities