--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote: > > Barry, I think it's great you are helping to raise a baby. > It's a beautiful experience. How do you feel about it? Share.
It's a very "it takes a village to raise a child" experience, for many reasons. The biggest is because my best friend is part of a polyamorous relationship, and thus there are three "live-in parents," not two. Seeing them actually get along and share equally in all aspects of raising a daughter is pretty inspiring. I'm not there all the time, only "as needed." So it is sometimes several days or a week between times that I get to see Maya. ( Maya the little girl, not Maya the concept. :-) Thus I actually have more of a perspective on how much she has changed since I saw her last than the parents do. They're there 24/7, and so big changes sometimes escape their notice because they're so gradual. Me, because I'm not there all the time and because I am by nature a "people watcher," I tend to notice. Often I'm the first to point out a big change, like the transition between not being able to move her head to follow people as they moved and being able to. Or her discovery of the wonders of having feet. :-) She's only three months old, so she doesn't say much yet. :-) But she has already laughed out loud (not just smiled), so that's pretty neat. A good sign.
