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Mother's Day Blog for NEW Mommies!

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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...