That bright and shining day is finally here — the day you come home from the hospital! Beaming with pride, you stroll with purpose out the front doors, drive carefully home with baby in tow for the first time, and then plop them down alone in the backyard so that you can go get some work done. Have fun, baby! No? Is that not how it’s done? Hmmm…you’d think we’d know that. Well, no. You can’t do that (no seriously, you can’t.) But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t let baby play alone for short periods. It’s a myth that babies