Adaptation

As I opened up my email this morning, I saw the usual mundane drabble that gets shipped to my inbox weekly, the stuff I usually click on delete before I even give it a second chance, but something caught my eye. I should have known better than to look at an email from Babycenter.com labeled "Your 2-month-old: Week 3".  Such emails are filled with all these fun milestones that "should" be happening with your child this week, and since they started talking about eye development, they have done nothing but cause me worry with how my daughter had been falling behind each week.  As I opened it up, the first thing it spoke of was how your child should be discovering her hands by looking at them intently. Great, another milestone she simply cannot reach because her hands are far too small of an object for her eyes to fully grasp, even if her eyesight is on the better side of the spectrum for MGDA. Once again, I deleted the email, sighed, and carried on with my morning.

Coffee, breastfeed, call to my mother to give me the strength to make it one more day, diaper change, allotted 10 minutes of self pity time for the day, singing time with Bug while flailing her arms and legs for her, another feed,  and putting her down for a nap.  It was somewhere in this mix of a morning schedule I had realized an interesting behavior in Bug that I had not really noticed before. Well, rephrase, I had noticed before but it was played off as something that babies just do.  She had her hands clasped together.  No, not just holding her own hands, but running her fingers over her fingers, pulling her hands apart, and repeating the same motion.  Moments like this usually would make me cry, but today I felt nothing but pride.  My daughter wasn't going to miss this milestone at all, she simply is going to figure out about her hands the only way she knows how.

Take that, weekly baby email. You aren't going to make me feel terrible about my child's lack of development this week.