From delivering newborns ready to take on the world, to parents giving up eating to hold eggs in their mouth, species have developed unusual behaviours to ensure the best possible start for their precious offspring.
Elshtain sketches a captivating bustle of activity: "If you were a resident, it would not be at all unusual to move over the course of a day from reading George Eliot, to debating Karl Marx, to washing newborns, to readying the dead for burial, to nursing the sick, to minding the children".
Another way you can include the father is by asking him to help you get the newborn's room ready.
Ready-made newborn baby bouquets cross paths with funeral coronas, bonsai trees, roses, all gathered with an artistic sensibility and for a very reasonable price.
Plump up your newborn elephant and he is ready for play or to embellish another one of your craft projects.
For newborns, when is the baby ready to leave the house?
And how at the local hospitals, women who could not bear children would stand around, waiting for the "unwanted" daughters from families ready to give their newborn "disappointments" away.
"It is gratifying that the 'One Plan' for accelerating reduction of maternal, newborn and child health is now ready," said Mr. Kikwete, who noted plans to make health services available within 5 km from each village.
(The remaining animals, including newborns and injured animals not yet ready for adoption, will be available in the coming weeks).
It is a bummer to have to leave your newborn at home if you aren't ready to".
