Heather POV
It was great to have Mum here with me. She said she would stay about two weeks, and I needed her in those early days of becoming a mum myself. I was nervous, unsure of how I would cope. Mum said it was natural, but I didn’t feel natural, I felt lost and afraid I would stuff up and hurt my babies somehow, like one started to cry, and I was lost. I had just fed them, but Mum picked her up, burped her, and put her back down. How was I to know that was what the baby wanted? I have to learn, I know, but it is as if all my brain cells got fried. Like I should have known that the baby most likely wanted to burp, I remember doing that with my little brother, but for some reason, I left my brains in bed today.
Mum laughed at me for my forgetfulness and tried to make light of it, and I
