A little needy but that's okay

I thought for sure because it was more difficult for us to conceive that we would for sure have an easy baby. I imagined a very happy baby that just slept all the time and was nothing but smiles. I thought she would sleep through the night almost right away and figured motherhood would be a breeze since I was so ready and we were REALLY trying to have this baby. As with most things we come across this baby has been a misadventure in itself. She was never a colicky baby but she did cry. She cried A LOT. She had her baby witching hour and still sorta does. She's pretty much checked out for the day around 6:00pm. Making dinner time near impossible every night.
Growing up with a daycare in my house I saw all sorts of children. I remember the babies that had to be held all the time and I remember thinking to myself " I can't stand these moms that spoil their kids by holding them all the time. Why don't they just put them down?" As I have learned early on, don't say anything out loud because you're bound to jinx yourself and guess what, I have that baby. She wants to be held CONSTANTLY, she fusses often, and always wants to be with just me. I have learned in this short time that the bond between a mother and her baby is unmeasurable. I have learned that you can never hold your baby too much and they only want to be held for a short time. I can pretty much say with certainty that once this baby is mobile she will not want me coddling her like I do. I admit I like that she likes me the best. I have learned my baby is smart and wants to be stimulated often and fusses when that need is not met and on the other side when she is done she is DONE. Everyone is 100% right when they say the love you have for your child is like nothing else in the world. It is so true. I was given this baby as a gift and wouldn't change anything about her. I sometimes think I was given this "needier" baby because I HATE to be bored and I can say one thing, life is never boring.