Babydom

Then again, Mama thought I would be marrying Zeb— best friend since babydom—someday, which showed how much she knew.

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The 1-year mark is a major milestone, the official transition between babydom and toddlerhood.

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There is this time during babydom that the mother herself can lie about like a baby, like a beached whale, having birthed her bloody spawn, and the mother can just hover in those sparkling dust motes of afternoon sun and be cradled and lifted and suspende in the golden light.

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I wish I could read their mothers a lecture, which would ring in their ears until there was a complete reform in babydom.

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