Occasionally Daigoro exhibits behaviour which is interesting but probably doesn't require a lengthy blog entry. I'll prefix these short episodes and snapshots with the title and tag "Vignette". This first vignette occurs a few months ago, in early February or late January (I believe):
Daigoro was accompanying Marli on a trip to the midwives. He was happy and inquisitive throughout the visit, as is his usual manner. However, when the midwives asked to examine Marli's abdomen and palpate the uterus, Daigoro became more and more upset as they poked and prodded his mother's swollen belly. Finally he couldn't take it any more and actually flung himself between their hands and mama's stomach, apparently in an effort to protect her.
Pretty impressive, when you think about it - an twenty month old child trying to bodily intervene to protect his mother from two other women easily twice his size and four times his weight. It brings to mind of images from mythology of young children or animals protecting their injured or fallen parents. Instinct or love? Hard to say, but touching either way.
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