Someone has to be on the ends of the bell curve

Comparisons... everywhere.  With Beca, it's always been what she's doing now, how she's growing, etc.  I'm sure it won't be much different for this baby.  But the thing is, everyong falls somewhere on a normalized bell curve.  It's just how it works.  Any statistic you can come up with, there's a large population of information that says all the data falls in the normalized bell curve.  Most things, you'll fall in that lovely middle section, where you are normal like everyone else.  On some things, you may fall into the tailing off ends of the curve.  That's me with due date calculation because it never works out right.  So while I report August 4, I know it will be in July that we get to meet this little one (mostly because I'll have a C-section again).  There are other things I fall in the tailing off ends of the curve too - apparently I'm the meanest mommy ever.  So logically that would put me all the way to the right on the mean scale.  Not want to be too normal now, do I?  But while a handful of people get this, it's so hard to remember that one little lesson you had on it (if you ever did) and I really think that more people should be taught about what "normal" or "your baby should be doing" really means.  and when you don't fall into it, it only means that you aren't in the typical region of the normalized bell curve.  And most of the time, that's ok - someone needs to make up the tail ends or it won't be "normal".