Enjoying Your Baby? 1944 advice

[Daisy2014]

A book I have entitled 'Enjoy Your Baby' written 1944, which reading through some blog posts might be an alien state to some parents of new babies. Is this true?
What do you think of this? True or false? Wildly optimistic or a good aim?
' The mother who means to enjoy her baby makes it her business to get to know his special characteristics from the cradle and to treat them with the respect due to every stranger newly introduced. She knows that making friends on equal terms with her baby is the surest way to establishing the happy nursery which she wants'.

I was born in 1944!
I don’t think we had a ‘nursery’ in our NE council house but I was loved, indulged, well fed and well clothed and had a wonderful childhood albeit as an only child.

That sounds pretty sensible to me! As an aim anyway, I think babies vary in how transparent they are.

It's good it acknowledged even in 1944 that babies can be enjoyed rather than just endured. The author was ahead of her time.
Not sure about "equal terms". Ds and I were on equal terms until he bit me or refused to wear shoes. Then I had seniority 😊

Fair comment! someone has to be boss and it had maybe better be you being older and more knowledgeable about the ways of the world. I suppose the point the author is making is that we meet our new baby - this new an unknown human who we must get to know with an open mind.

Transparent is maybe what we say when a person can choose to hide motives. Maybe you mean that sometimes what will pacify a crying baby is just not clear. Or have I misunderstood? Love your Mumsnet name by the way.