Last week my little girl turned 1, and I couldn’t believe it. Days leading up to her birthday my mum kept calling me to remind me of moments that led up to her birth a year ago. How I had had discomforts and suddenly started to feel like I was coming down with a fever — in real sense my body was preparing to have her the next day.  I have watched my little girl grow from the newborn who looked into space, to the infant who had her first smile at me, who babbled and nibbled at her fingers when hungry, who smiled at me during bath time whenever…