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I find myself, more and more, watching
four-month-old Aanvit when he is near his big
brother Riank, and wondering: what is he actually
feeling in there? What goes on inside that tiny
mind when his two-year-old brother is close? It is
a question I cannot answer for certain, but I
cannot stop asking it, because the answer,
whatever it is, is one of the most beautiful
mysteries in my life. 🤍
We tend to think of newborns as simple, as not
feeling or perceiving much yet. But the more I
learn and the more I watch, the more I suspect
that Aanvit's inner world, even at four months, is
richer than we imagine. Something happens in him
when Riank is near. His eyes track his brother.
His body responds. There is a change in his whole
demeanor when the big loud wonderful presence of
Riank enters his world. He feels something. I just
cannot know exactly what. 🌱
I imagine that to Aanvit, Riank is one of the most
fascinating things in his entire small universe. A
newborn's world is faces and voices and movement
and warmth, and Riank is all of those,
concentrated into one endlessly interesting,
endlessly moving little person who is always
around. If I had to guess what Aanvit feels around
his brother, I would guess: fascination, comfort,
curiosity, and the earliest stirrings of a love he
has no words for and no understanding of, but
feels all the same. 🌟
And it goes the other way too, of course. What
goes on inside two-year-old Riank's mind about his
baby brother is its own mystery, a toddler's
tangle of love and curiosity and confusion and
tenderness. Between the two of them, in the space
where a newborn's mind meets a toddler's,
something is happening that neither of them can
express and neither of them will remember, but
that is real and forming and beautiful. 🤍
This series is my attempt to wonder about that
space, to imagine what goes on inside the minds of
my two boys when they are around each other. I
cannot know for certain, no one can, the inner
world of a baby and a toddler is largely closed to
us. But I can watch, and wonder, and imagine, with
all the curiosity and love a father has for the
secret inner lives of his children. 🌟
So what does Aanvit feel around his brother? I do
not fully know. But I am going to spend these
posts wondering, with wonder and love. 🤍
Parents 👇 do you wonder what your baby feels
around their older sibling? What do you imagine
goes on inside their little mind? Share your
wonderings below.
Sunday, 23 August 2026
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Day 144 of @aanvitverse
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23/8/2026
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