“You must have been something, a real tiny kid”*
by chuckofish
Catherine is 2 weeks old!
Two weeks feels like a huge milestone for these first-time parents. She has gained precisely the right amount of weight (now 9 lbs 5 oz!) and is off the charts for height. (The doctor says, “She’ll definitely be taller than 5 foot 4!” OK.) I feel affirmed that I have been successfully feeding her, given how unknowable it all felt in the beginning. But as everyone has told us, it probably isn’t all the advice books and frantic Googling that makes good parenting — just loving her and doing our best.
We recently did laundry and it felt bizarre to see the clothes we had worn to the hospital. A day before baby! Doesn’t it seem like a lifetime ago? Well, I keep saying, it was a lifetime — her’s!
Yes, I am that mom waxing philosophical about time passing. We are just happy that she is doing well, which means we are doing well. Here’s to a lifetime of continuing to do our best!
*Talking Heads, “Dream Operator”
dual personalities 