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The power of touch: I didn't hold my daughter until she was three days old | Salamishah Tillet
I was afraid my inability to breastfeed her or engage in skin-to-skin contact would harm her, but I was also burdened by another historyWelcome to the Guardian’s Power of Touch seriesI had to wait three days after my daughter Seneca was born to hold her. She arrived punctually just before sunrise on her due date, a fact I have interpreted as her over-accommodating me, because it enabled me to drive to UPS and mail off my tenure dossier on time.Nine hours later, as my partner, Solomon, my sister, Scheherazade, and I drove to the hospital with a maternity bag filled with a lavender-scented eye mask, breastfeeding pyjamas and a white-noise machine, I noticed only a handful of cars on the highway, the glare of their headlights guiding us to the hospital, four suburbs and 30 minutes away from our New Jersey townhouse. Continue reading...
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