I'm back. I haven't been blogging for a while because we have been overhauling our website. Have a browse through, if you are a parent you will get it.
That said I would like to muse on the wonderful thing that is early human development.
As far as I understand, and please don't quote me on any of this because I might be wrong, babies instinctively know how to suckle and will generally know when to stop when full up. Babies are less sensitive than adults because they cannot scratch an itch, cannot pick out fluff from their eyes and are bound to bang their head against pretty much everything in the house in a few months time. Their bones aren't fully developed and are quite flexible, again, to allow for the inevitable bumps.
If our body proportions were similar to a toddler's, our heads would be about the size and weight of a medicine ball - at least. Yet they are able not only to learn how to balance on the most unstable platforms that are those short bowed legs, but to actually walk.
With such amazing minds and bodies, there is one thing about babies and toddlers that amazes me the most: why oh why, for the love of all things small and cuddly, do they play up, cry their eyes out, go all hyperactive and drive you absolutely crazy rather than just bloody well going to bloody sleep when they are tired?
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