POV: Siena Blake

Babies don’t stay little forever.

People say that a lot. You hear it from parents, from older women at the grocery store, from strangers in the park. They all smile and nod and say things like, “Enjoy it while it lasts,” or “They grow up so fast.” But no one really prepares you for how fast. No one tells you how quickly everything changes. How their soft little cries turn into loud wails that fill the whole house. How one moment they’re lying perfectly still on your chest, breathing in time with your heartbeat, and the next moment they’re twisting away from your arms, full of energy,...