more of maggie

Maggie is 5months and I can't imagine there is anything I would do differently up to now...but there is...
as much as I held her as a newborn...I would hold her more...
for as many times as she would lay so still and beautiful upon my chest...there I would let her rest longer
for any of the milk and nourishment that I was able to provide her...I would try harder to give her more...
I would absolutely call the first 6months of a child's life ... a complete stillness and watchfulness of my own...
...have absolutely nothing to do...require no attention for the routine, hectic or daily ritualistic existence that perhaps becomes to much of who we are....and simply just be...mother and child...just be...

for dinners have 6months of hamburger helper...for cleaning -understand that there is minimal that "has" to be done...for all to soon you will have much time to occupy when your little babe begins to gain her dependence...

for now cherish her absolute and solitary need for her mommy.