Under the watchful eyes of
parents tiny fingers may touch a sea star, pet the slick back of a ray, hold a hermit crab's claw or brush a horseshoe crab's legs.
Not exact matches
The first time they allow you to stick your hand in your baby's isolette to touch their
tiny fingers, or the moment they're extubated, or the first time you get to feed them all on your own... These moments will be burned into your memories and give you a level of excitement that
parents of healthy babies will probably never understand.
I wish all new fathers a hearty congratulations on becoming
parents, proud dads who can't wait to fuss over the latest addition to the family, but take a break from touching
tiny fingers and toes for a minute.
And I thought if I could just reach the stage of
parenting when I could actually get a full night's sleep, and maybe a little time to exercise and / or meditate without a
tiny person sticking her
fingers up my nose, I could handle any emotional challenge my kids could throw at me.
Sleep deprived
parents sometimes forget to check for things like a wet diaper, a thread from baby's clothes wrapped around a
tiny foot or
finger, a missed or poorly taken meal, or an infant who has air trapped in his tummy.
The doctor gave him back to us, and we quickly became traditional first - time
parents, wrapped in a woozy cocoon of joy and exhaustion, taking a genuine intellectual interest in poop, marveling at the thrill we felt, the connection, when our son's
tiny hand squeezed our
fingers.
Compare the fluency of a teenager typing on a smartphone, steeped in repeated practice, with her less practiced
parents, who use such a device in a much more occasional, stumbling manner — as they struggle to «think through their
fingers» in this
tiny medium.