Last week, my wife’s sister, Aoife, gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Effie. We couldn’t get enough of the pictures of her tiny features and wrinkly wee hands, and got very emotional over the footage of her coming home to meet her big brother, Charlie. Two days later, our friends Diarmaid and Kate sent photos from Melbourne of their newborn son, Tiernan, and we once again pored over the pics with fawning adoration.
We were so moved that we took a dig back through photos of our own adventures in newborn care. ‘God,’ my wife said, as we scrolled through pictures of our daughter when she was only minutes old, ‘do you remember her being that small?’
