The Space Between Baby and Boy

We’re in it now, this space between baby and boy.

We’re teetering, delicately and precariously, a roller coaster in its graceful pause just before the plunge. It was a little rickety at first, climbing that steep, steep slope: Sleepless nights. Endless spit-up. Needless crying. I felt each click click click of the ascent. But for now, we are floating here, balancing above the next phase of your life.

With your sister, I didn’t realize it was coming. I just woke up one morning and she was a little girl. Somehow, in one dreamless night, her ringlets grew out, her face changed, her speech solidified. I didn’t know there was a space between—until it was gone.


Melissa Bowers
Melissa Bowers
Melissa Bowers is a former high school teacher from Michigan who moved across the country when she was pregnant with her second child; she now writes about teaching, moving, and motherhood as the voice of MichiforniaGirl. "Extrovert Melissa" profoundly misses adult company and loves meeting new people via her Facebook page. "Introvert Melissa" appreciates that this can happen from behind a computer screen, where she is inevitably sporting a mom bun and downing a third cup of coffee with extra whip.

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