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With my first newborn I acquired a gift, hyper-auditory sensitivity, which I call "Mothers Ears." It seems to be an automatic side effect of giving birth. When each of my children was an infant, I could hear every breath and the tiny whish of a wave of an arm from the crib, even when I was busy at the opposite end of the house. Once they were toddling around, poking screwdrivers into electrical outlets, ripping labels from all the canned goods and dunking the kitten into the toilet bowl, I developed an auxiliary function, "Eyes-in-the-Back-of-My-Head," useful for alerting me to exactly what ea...
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