The 7 Speedy weeks

I’m sure we all have experienced being at both ends of the spectrum of time. You must have felt how slow time creeps when you are holding a plank and how fast time flies when you are enjoying your favorite vacation with the ones you love and ‘boom’ suddenly get reminded that you need to get back to “Life”.

But the 7 weeks of a newborn phase is the exact mixed bag where you blink and it feels like your baby is growing so fast by the day and you wish time would be kind enough to pause to let you enjoy the little one being cuddled up in your arms for a while longer. And at the same time you look forward to their meal times extending a bit longer so your sleep doesn’t feel short-lived like a blinking firefly. Huh ! 🤔 

With that said, do I wanna trade my sleepless or actually sleep-deprived nights with the well rested ones (no baby goes the entire night without sleeping and that too for days…do they ? so when new parents say sleepless, it’s actually an exaggeration in my humble opinion)!?

Now back to trading, I most Definitely wouldn’t do it. Not at the cost of missing the precious-priceless moments like watching the tiny tot do all kinds of delightful stretches when trying to wake up from her sleep 😴 ; or soaking up in the snuggles without having to think about what’s next in my to-do list ; feeling her fluidly melt in my arms in the most awkward positions and giving that sweetest possible smile after getting milk drunk 😊; the sigh of calm and relief that sweeps over her the minute I place her on my chest post the most uncontrollable crying, just because the heartbeat sounds familiar and comforting in this otherwise big wide world 🌎 ; holding the teeny feet of my bonny baby that fits in my palm ; or even the funny infamous poop explosions, god, the list goes on. . . 

The jiggly-wiggly wake ups !

The milk drunk smile 🥰

Why don’t babies stay babies ? Isn’t this an age old question ? Haven’t all parents had those moments, at least one if not many when they wished their little ones remain little ? I have them every single day, mainly because I’m very bad dealing with change but also just because there’s truly no better phase of life than this. The minute they start growing, there comes an agenda into play, good n bad, pros n cons, yada, yada 🥱. .

My baby is now half way there in her newborn phase and I did have my fair share of simple yet blissful, ecstatic moments with her. . when we sat together at the deck watching the sky paint itself into shades of pretty pink as the bright hot day settled down into a pleasant airy dusk, when we looked through the window at the pouring rain that made everything in the horizon surprisingly calm and restful green in spite of the crashing thunder and so many more..! It’s all because I was holding on to my treasure and neither of us had the tiniest bit of worry in the world as we truly stayed in THE Present. 💕  

No where else I would rather be 🤗