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It is, of course, a massive over-simplification to say all your newborn will do is eat, sleep, excrete and cry. Your tiny being will stretch and snuffle and squeak and yawn and suck and wail and move her limbs as if she’s doing an underwater dance. She’ll gaze at you, or drift off to sleep, her fingers will curl and uncurl, and in her sleep her eyelids will flicker. Sometimes she’ll jerk her arms and wake up shocked and howling. Sometimes she’ll whimper and stir and grimace, then go back to sleep. Sometimes she’ll lie so still she looks like a tiny, perfect doll and you’ll wonder if she’s breathing at all. I remember literally watching my baby son’s eyelashes grow, hour by hour, as I fed him in the early days. For a new parent this miniature world is endlessly fascinating. It’s how we get to know–and fall in love with–our babies. And it makes all the other stuff–the sleeplessness and sore bits and stitches and worries and zooming hormones–completely irrelevant. Well, some of the time, at least.