Welcome To My Life Nikque

At the hospital, I gave our daughter the name Nikque Monique Boyd-Holling because Rodney still showed so many signs of indifference towards parenting. I later determined that this was simply his insecurity in that he wouldn’t participate in making any important decisions, but learning while in labor that a pediatrician had not been selected did not give me much confidence and he had declined to participate in the search for a day care center.

From the period of my amniocentesis and several months after Nikque was born, I struggled with a number of issues unrelated to parenting, but Rodney seemed to be adjusting to being a father and bonding with Nikque just as I was and since I was unable to breastfeed, Rodney was free to see Nikque and take her with him to visit family etc. as he desired, I never doubted his ability to handle the basics of feeding and changing Nikque and she was as low maintenance as I had ever seen in any baby, with her basic needs being met along with lots of love and nurturing from many extended family, she didn’t seem to want for much else.