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mobile surveillances, are not common or easy and only used<br />

for important investigations. So if you show your skills at<br />

counter surveillance during a basic drug surveillance, they<br />

will arrest you or back off. They aren't going to use resources<br />

over and over again just to be burned.<br />

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http://www.quora.com/l/boq-brandon-gregg<br />

motherhood<br />

What is some advice every new<br />

mother should know?<br />

Alecia Li Morgan, Mother to a small posse of little boys<br />

every new mother should know a few things:<br />

• This baby is yours (and your partner's, if applicable),<br />

whether you adopted her, conceived him naturally, had an<br />

egg donor, had a sperm donor, had an everything-donor,<br />

etc. You are this baby's. Therefore, you are irreplaceable.<br />

Sometimes, in my moments of feeling down and subpar,<br />

I'll wonder if my boys would have been better off with a<br />

BLAnK-er, more BLAnK mother. But then I remember<br />

. . . these are mine, and I am theirs. Whatever happened<br />

to bring this baby to your arms, it happened for a<br />

reason, and you are just right.<br />

• Your life will be simpler and happier if you work hard,<br />

day and night, to avoid falling into the comparison trap.<br />

It took me three kids to get it, finally, but now that I have,<br />

I can tell you how much happier and more content I am as<br />

a parent. Worrying about X's baby who is crawling months<br />

before yours, comparing your child to Z's baby, who sleeps<br />

through the night, etc, all these things are unnecessary —<br />

and sometimes, they're just part of our culture and habits.<br />

Fight it. Seriously. Track development and be in tune with<br />

your child for anything that may need extra attention and<br />

TLC (or even intervention), but don't compare.

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