Mother's Day Blog for NEW Mommies!
Last May, when my son was just 4 months old... I didn't even consider blogging about Mother's Day. I was too new at motherhood to fathom doing anything that didn't revolve around my baby being in my arms and/or at my breast. That's how I instinctively knew to mother an infant- pretty much never let him go! He nursed on demand which was every 1-2 hours and he preferred to be held by mommy in the early days, maybe because I held him all the time! People tried to tell me that then but I thought they were crazy and unsympathetic to my plight of having a 'needy infant'. Needy Infant... Now I know those 2 words go together like hand in glove, butter and bread, poop and diapers... ok, you got the point! Infants are needy. They need to be needy to survive. There's a '4th trimester' philosophy which states the first 3 months out of the mother's womb ar...