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She was three weeks old, and she hated it.

Face down on a play mat, fists clenched, cheeks flushed, letting out the kind of wail that makes new parents want to scoop her up and never try this again. Her mother almost did. Almost.

But she didn’t. She got down on the floor instead, nose to nose with her daughter, and started singing. Thirty seconds later,...

Somewhere around three months in, you notice it.

Maybe you’re changing a diaper, and your hand brushes the back of your baby’s head, and something feels off. A little flatter than it was last week. Or your mother-in-law mentions it on FaceTime in that voice mothers-in-law use. Or you’re at Target, and another mom glances at your stroller a beat too long.

And then you’re up at 2 a.m., phone glowing, typing...