Baby Hands

Have you ever noticed - baby hands have dimples rather than knuckles! Their hands have a very different distribution of fat than they will as they get older. This picture was taken in the last ‘80s when my daughter was a few months old. The chubbiness of babies overall feeds their growth spurts so I wonder if the knuckles start to show more than the dimples by the time they are walking around – and usually take on their childhood slimness.

Now that we have digital photography where experimentation is ‘free’ – the idea of taking a series of baby hand pictures weekly or month would be a good project to try….next time I am around a baby on a daily basis.