Starting early

A friend complained that her newborn baby behaved the exact same way he did when he was in-utero. He'd sleep most of the day and would kick her black and blue from the inside through the night. I always thought things like that were coincidences.

Then this morning, Muffin sucked his fist. He did it with gusto, fervor and lots of noise. I looked at him and thought that I'd seen him in that exact position and trust my porridge brain, but for the life of me, I couldn't remember where. I kept scrolling through the hundreds of photos we'd taken of him over the past month and I couldn't find the image I was seeing in my mind.

It occurred to me then that the image I was thinking about was one that was taken before he was born. Towards the end of the pregnancy, Muffin had presented us with decent mug shots. And one of them was him sucking his fist, albeit the outer part of his fist but his fist nonetheless.





















And the look of contentment was similar too.

Incidentally, today marks Muffin's first month. Happy One Month, Muffin and may you have many more yummy, fist-sucking months ahead.

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