Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.
(a.) Recently born.
One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.
I feel more human when I compare the cuteness of a lizard to a newborn child's sweetness. Both are God's creations filled with precious innocence
Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn
Those eyes so ecstatic with the gleam of new life, the wide laugh that no doubt uses up so much of the breath contained in those tiny lungs.
Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home.
It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.
The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.
I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable.
I didn't bathe him because I was too afraid he would slip out of my hands or his belly button would open. Then one night I woke at three A.M. certain he was rotting like a chicken carcass. Only as I l...
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.