Sure, babies are cute, sweet, fun. They are also messy and a great deal of work. Parenthood is no picnic, even before they learn to talk back. Babies keep you up at night and interrupt your best laid plans. They cry or they coo and you're always trying to guess just why.
Every breath brings a new mystery even as they slowly reveal themselves.
And babies will teach you there are no experts in the field who have all the answers to tell you what to do in every situation. That's why it takes a family, it takes a community, it takes a village to nurture a newborn, and it takes a spiritual community to nurture our spiritual rebirth. There are no experts, only the pooled wisdom of an experienced community who have gone before us or travel alongside us. We need the community, but we must ultimately take responsibility to raise our own children. Likewise, the best commentators and most outstanding preachers notwithstanding, you have to nurture God's Spirit in your own experience, you have to take responsibility for your own spiritual growth.