the newborn. the newly born. brand new.

when a baby is born it's kind of magical. one minute she was inside her mother's body and the next minute she is outside. light and air and scents are new, touch is new, sounds are different. a human baby spends her first hours in her mother's arms, at her mother's breast, learning the scent and taste of her mother to put together what she already knows about her mother, her sounds. a cow's baby spends her first four hours nursing from her mother and standing. newborn kittens are blind and stay right with their mother, she feeds them and cleans them and takes care of their waste. it all seems quite magical to me.