“What did your body — or their body — do that day that astonished you?”

Why this question

What it endured, produced, recovered from. Or theirs: the grip of a hand, the eyes already open, the smallness that wasn't fragile at all.

Where it leads

Astonishment fades into normality within weeks. Catch it while it's still astonishing.

If your child came by adoption or surrogacy

If you weren't at a birth: what astonished you about their body that first day — the realness of them, after all the paperwork?