Short reflection on newborns
The last line of this article resonated with me:link-icon::
My daughter is a new baby girl every time she wakes up. I suppose the only way to deal with that is to remember that every time she wakes up, I’m a new dad, too.
Ella is at that stage right now where she really is dependent on her mother and father for everything, so fragile and small that she even needs our help supporting her head when she isn’t stretched out across a mattress or a pillow. Also, her memory is only just beginning to form, and is mostly limited to things like voices (and then only somewhat, because her hearing is still developing, and will be for months yet) and scents. Particularly the scent of Mommy, since Mommy’s scent is also food’s scent.
We’re also starting to see evidence of touch being an important thing for our little girl: she’ll sometimes reach out and search, with her tiny little hand, for Grace’s skin, and seems to sigh with relief when she finds what she’s looking for in that regard.
But her little mind is still very much undeveloped, and in a lot of ways, every day is not just a new day, but like a first day for her.
I wonder if I am responding to that reality, as a parent, as well as I can?
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