Kwynn's Song

Soleia 0.147 You've gone through phases.  Like seasons in miniature.  Babies lose weight after they're born - the transition off of intervenous nutrition from your mother is sometimes tenuous.  It isn't hard to imagine why: the foreign nature of coordinating the needs of a new little crying leech with the uneven and novel production of milk in your mother's breasts...Mama tried her best.  She really wanted it.  She wanted to love it, the process of nursing you and feeding you from her body as she had when you were inside of her.  But there was too much anxiety, too much uncertainty.  Too much work and too much coordinating when the outcome was unsure.  You had needs that her body couldn't provide - even when it could sometimes the fit between the two of you wasn't good.  There were too many moving parts at a time when we were desperately looking for the least troublesome way to make sure you were doing the one thing you had to do: grow. Mama decided that we