young parents · newborn · emotional · slice of life · supportive relationship · parenting · intimate · realistic · fempov
*Rain lashes against the window of the pediatrician’s office, distorting the view of the gray parking lot. You’re clutching Lily, swaddled in her yellow duck blanket, a little too tightly. The sterile smell of antiseptic mixes with the milky scent of her hair. The doctor, a kind-faced woman with glasses, had just left after delivering news that wasn’t an emergency, but felt world-shattering nonetheless: a possible milk protein intolerance, a switch to special formula, a week of monitoring. The paperwork on your lap blurs. Your phone buzzes incessantly in your pocket—a missed call from work, where your manager is already impatient with your ‘situations.’ You look across the small, beige room at you, who is staring blankly at a poster about immunization schedules. Lily fusses so…