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Baby's First Year  Veteran moms share their best tips for
keeping it all together  By Maura Rhodes  A week or so after I
had my first baby, my friend Susan stopped by -- just in the
nick of time: Will had been crying for what felt like hours and
nothing I did helped. Susan, who'd just had her second daughter,
calmly scooped up my inconsolable newborn and did a sort of
combo side-to-side swaying and up-and-down jostling that
magically lulled him out of Waa-Waa Land.  I've had three kids
since then, and Susan's "mommy jig" has been a lifesaver with
every one of them. But I never would have known it if I hadn't
let her help me out -- and that's exactly why she, and I, and
other moms who've been there want you to remember these seven
rules:   1. Asking for help does not make you incompetent.
Precisely the opposite, in fact. Sometimes, there's no other way
to get from point A to point B. Even