I was standing watching myself as
a baby in the arms of Jesus Christ, and in front was my biological father.
What Christian would willingly surrender the appearance of the angels to the shepherds and the «multitude of the heavenly host» singing a hymn never heard before on land or sea, or the star dropping low from the skies to guide the magi from far away mysterious lands to the Judean village and the stable who God himself lay a tiny
baby in the arms of his mother?
My first mother's day was the day I placed my first
baby in the arms of his new mom.
Placing
your baby in the arms of another loving family doesn't take away the fact that you carried her for nine months and gave birth.
, rocking
the baby In the arms of parents, massaging, touching face or head and many more.
Otherwise hold
your baby in your arms of on your legs.
-- was breastfeeding Stephen,
the baby in the arms of Viola Lennon, one of LLL's seven cofounders and coauthor of The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding.
Joy not necessarily for themselves, but for a family which was missing a piece until they placed that beautiful, miraculous
baby in the arms of joyful adoptive parents who don't know how to thank them.
Not exact matches
A whopping 82 %
of babies born each year are placed
in the
arms of millennial mothers.
There was a
baby in the crib with lines running from its
arms and legs that ran to a set
of levers on the wall, and standing there was an evil - looking clown throwing the switches.»
9 months from conception, if an abortion doesn't occur (and assuming the
baby doesn't die
of natural causes), you're holding a living, breathing being
in your
arms.
Other times, the contrast is jolting — the
baby cooing
in your
arms as news
of another mass shooting scrolls across the TV, the wedding on Inauguration Day, 2017.
Let yourself be all
of the mother that you are — when you yell or get frustrated, when you ask forgiveness, when you feel your heart straining against your rib cage, all because
of how he looks asleep
in your
arms, all because
of the sound
of childish voices laughing outside, all because
of the quiet nights
in the monastery
of the
baby's room, just rocking
in a time outside
of time, it's all real and it's all you and it's all okay.
So he always says that it's one
of the favourite sights
of his life, the sight
of the little
babies we've made pressed against me
in the morning, laying
in white cotton sheets, my shirt all askew, and he wraps his
arms around us both.
But right now I want a bath and a pint
of Guinness, I want to sit beside the man cradling our last little
baby in his strong
arms and lean my head into his shoulder, memorize this exact moment, I want to stay here
in this pause for just a while longer.
I became a mama for the first time
in the Fall
of 1998 when a foster mom,
in the dark
of night
in a tiny home
in the middle
of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam placed a nine week old
baby girl into my shaking
arms.
In the guise of a tiny baby in its mother's arms, obeying the great laws of birth and infancy, you came, Lord Jesus, to dwell in my infant - soul; and then, as you re-enacted in me — and in so doing extended the range of — your growth through the Church, that same humanity which once was born and dwelt in Palestine began now to spread out gradually everywhere like an iridescence of unnumbered hues through which, without destroying anything, your presence penetrated — and endued with supervitality — every other presence about m
In the guise
of a tiny
baby in its mother's arms, obeying the great laws of birth and infancy, you came, Lord Jesus, to dwell in my infant - soul; and then, as you re-enacted in me — and in so doing extended the range of — your growth through the Church, that same humanity which once was born and dwelt in Palestine began now to spread out gradually everywhere like an iridescence of unnumbered hues through which, without destroying anything, your presence penetrated — and endued with supervitality — every other presence about m
in its mother's
arms, obeying the great laws
of birth and infancy, you came, Lord Jesus, to dwell
in my infant - soul; and then, as you re-enacted in me — and in so doing extended the range of — your growth through the Church, that same humanity which once was born and dwelt in Palestine began now to spread out gradually everywhere like an iridescence of unnumbered hues through which, without destroying anything, your presence penetrated — and endued with supervitality — every other presence about m
in my infant - soul; and then, as you re-enacted
in me — and in so doing extended the range of — your growth through the Church, that same humanity which once was born and dwelt in Palestine began now to spread out gradually everywhere like an iridescence of unnumbered hues through which, without destroying anything, your presence penetrated — and endued with supervitality — every other presence about m
in me — and
in so doing extended the range of — your growth through the Church, that same humanity which once was born and dwelt in Palestine began now to spread out gradually everywhere like an iridescence of unnumbered hues through which, without destroying anything, your presence penetrated — and endued with supervitality — every other presence about m
in so doing extended the range
of — your growth through the Church, that same humanity which once was born and dwelt
in Palestine began now to spread out gradually everywhere like an iridescence of unnumbered hues through which, without destroying anything, your presence penetrated — and endued with supervitality — every other presence about m
in Palestine began now to spread out gradually everywhere like an iridescence
of unnumbered hues through which, without destroying anything, your presence penetrated — and endued with supervitality — every other presence about me.
Something similar is happening when Jesus stands a child up
in the midst
of his disciples, then takes the child
in his
arms the way Simeon had once embraced
baby Jesus and says, «Whoever welcomes one such child
in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me, but the one who sent me (Mark 9:37).
Before you start any
of your usual self - righteous hissy fits, look at ALL the 8 methods
of abortion
in detail —
in technicolour, and tell me those bodies with heads, legs,
arms and features are NOT
babies.
At the beginning
of the game, pharoah's daughter, reminiscent
of a Cleopatra bobble - head, picks up a bundled
baby Moses and cradles him
in her
arms.
When I visited Amanda
in Hyderabad back
in 2006, I had my «poverty tourist» moments — being shocked by the slums, throwing up all the time, taking an absurd amount
of photographs, crying like a
baby when the rickshaw driver ripped us off — but Amanda never looked down her nose at me or chided my efforts, even though a few weeks before she had held a dying little girl
in her
arms and a few weeks later she would severely burn her leg on a motorbike.
There is a hungry
baby, blinking eyes at the light
of life and a mama longing to nurse, open mouths and wonder at what you have just done,
arms that suddenly don't feel quite attached to our body unless there is that little person
in them.
Once when the Prophet had been sitting on a tree stump and then abandoned it for a higher seat
in order that the increased number
of listeners might hear him better, all the audience heard the wailing complaint
of the stump, a wailing which continued until the Prophet took the stump
in his
arms and consoled it as one would console a
baby.
He said that because, even though I made my peace with The Ache, even though I was
in complete agreement that we were done with our three, even though I was ready for this new season
of life without any
babies in my
arms, there was still that part
of me that longed for one more.
If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little
arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation
of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing
babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die
in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath
of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (
of believers?)
Several women cuddle
babies in their
arms in a small anteroom at the back
of the main hall, chatting and laughing softly.
I loved the songs we sang loud and I loved the sight
of the tinies standing on risers, flinging their
arms around with the action songs, beside their friends, I loved my
baby in my
arms, and I loved us all
in some supernatural thing
of wholeness and connection.
Then the doctor stuck the scissors
in the back
of his head, and the
baby's
arms jerked out, like a startle reaction, like a flinch, like a
baby does when he thinks he is going to fall.
They were involved
in orgies to worship Ashtaroth, and frying their
babies in the red hot
arms of Molech.
Once the
baby is born and laid
in his mother's
arms (ideally
in a rooming -
in hospital where the father can also participate), the development
of what Erik Erikson calls basic trust (4) already is
in progress.
Out
of the bubble that is American life, we sat with dying men and women, held newly orphaned
babies in our
arms, and cried with shattered family members.
The planet itself seemed less impressive,
in its old - fashioned, deliberate, annual or daily revolution, than this huge wheel, revolving within
arm's length at some vertiginous speed, and barely murmuring, — scarcely humming an audible warning to stand a hair's - breadth further for respect
of power, — while it would not wake the
baby lying close against its frame.
A nice lady brought me a cup
of tea and I sat
in smug serenity whilst my
baby slept peacefully
in my
arms and everyone else's created merry hell.
These, with a liberal sprinkling
of howling, bald - headed
babies in arms, made up the crowd that met
in a shady grove on a hillside to participate
in the barbaric rites
of the barbecue.
Old grizzled vets wearing ball caps emblazoned with military insignia wander by, hip young parents tote the next generation
of foodies
in baby carriers, Latina babes wearing impressively high heels and impossibly tight pants hang on the
arms of their boyfriends while sucking on ice cream bars.
Even as a
baby, Asya says, Max's
arms were so long that when his cradle was put
in the yard, he would reach out and pluck peaches from the branches
of a neighbor's tree.
Our breastfed
babies spend so much MORE time physically
in our
arms than the time their bottle - fed peers spent
in the
arms of their own mothers (regardless
of what is
in the bottle).
«Nothing like the weight
of a
baby in your
arms.»
Current research has focused on three general types
of physical contact, skin - to - skin contact (kangaroo care),
in -
arms holding and the use
of a soft carrier to hold
baby.
Bend one
arm and place your
baby, tummy down, along the length
of your forearm, with his head resting
in your open hand and his legs straddling your
arm.
Secondly, co-sleeping usually works for me, but when I wake myself up SNORING approximately FIVE HUNDRED TIMES
in one night because
of a stuffy nose (why yes, that was last night, thank you), while my little girl sleeps like a... well, a
BABY with her little
arms over her head, it can be amusingly frustrating.
Just yesterday, she managed to get out
of the straps
in the high chair and as I tUrneD arouNd to get a
Baby wipe she stood up on the high chair and proceeded to climb down; She tumbled to the floor and cried bloody murder it all happened so fast that I couldn't see if she landed directly on her head or cushioned herself by putting out her
arms.
After consuming an obscene amount
of coffee the next day to compensate (and feeling grumpy and wrong), we are overjoyed when our
baby falls asleep anywhere: a car seat, a bouncy chair, a
baby carrier, or
in our
arms.
Is there anything better than the weight
of a newborn
baby in your
arms?
Never mind the general public... Some examples: 1) the passenger
in front
of us on our first flight, whom when my daughter was crying while we waited to take off and I said something aloud such as «I'll nurse her once we take off and then she'll be quiet», had to tell everyone around us that she was a nurse and that I was essentially a bad mom to not nurse my
baby during takeoff (sorry lady, but the reason I bought her a seat was for her to be
in her car seat during takeoff as it's much safer than
in my
arms nursing).
An article
in Parents magazine explains the three common ways that
babies fall asleep (
in your
arms,
in a
baby carrier or sling, or
in a swing or car seat) and how to break them
of the habit.
We're finding that we're
in this together — sort
of brothers (with
babies)--
in -
arms and are looking to each other more and more for grounded advice.
My husband and I agreed and while I never planned to get out
of that tub without a
baby in my
arms I decided to go with the flow and take some Valerian and get some rest.
«Play provides an opportunity to build strength
in muscles and understanding
in the brain
of how to interpret a child's environment,» says Amy Baez, a pediatric occupational therapist, author and founder
of Playapy, «
Babies learn from play through simple activities like moving their eyes, to holding their
arms up, to holding a bottle, to lifting their heads up off the floor.
In the beginning, you can swaddle the whole body, but at six weeks old or so, your
baby's
arms (or at least one
of them) should be free.