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The Wonders of Newborns
What Makes Babies So Unique and Special
By Shannon McKelden
Seems hard to believe you can learn appreciation from an infant, but I did. I learned to appreciate quiet moments, actually being able to taste good food and even naps!
"Thank God that healthy newborns are pretty durable and sleep a lot," says Melinda Rucker Haynes, a mom from Renton, Wash. "Believe me, sleep is a new mom's best friend. My best advice to an expectant mother is get lots of sleep now. Enjoy hours and hours of the pure, uninterrupted stuff. Revel in dozing off at the movies or on car rides, the LazyBoy showroom, even. Any place safe, warm and cozy is perfect for divine sleepy time. Not that you can store up sleep for when the baby arrives, but you'll get dropping-off-quickly practice so you can enjoy the surprisingly refreshing 10-minute power naps you're likely to get postpartum."
Remember a time when you so lacked self-consciousness that you felt completely free to be yourself? I don't either. Newborn babies, however, have no such concerns. They laugh and cry and explore all around them with curiosity and their reactions are real and free from the desire to meet anyone's expectations.
Wilson loved her newborn son's yawns. "There's something so ferociously cute about baby yawns!" Wilson says. "They're so unabashed."
Then there's innocence of a baby. Their newness and freshness on earth. "I love how they look up at you, but just over your shoulder," says Heather Cook, a mom from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. "I think they can still see their angels."
I think maybe she's right.
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