Social distancing

I dusted off the car seat to put my newly 4 month old baby into to go to her 4 month well checkup, and realized she had not been in her car seat since her 2 month appointment. The doctor weighed her, and commented how big she’d gotten as I swelled with pride in my body’s ability. I got home, and was calming and feeding my baby as if the one hour appointment ordeal had been an 8 hour busy errand running day. I am seriously starting to wonder how this home all the time is affecting these babies being raised this way right now. With my other children, it was nothing to be out most of the day several times a week. The beauty of breastfeeding was having everything I needed to care for them with me. By this age, I could feel the engorging factor of distracted nursing begin as the businesses of the world took dominance to nursing until the calm of home surrounded them in the evening. They had grown so used to the car seat that they either smiled or cried when I sat them in it. My daughter has changed and grown so much in 4 months. She knows her grandparents faces and voices through video chat, but she doesn’t know the smell of their house or the scruffiness of her papaw’s beard. She doesn’t know the noises, colors, and sounds of the Chick-fil-A playground as she watches her siblings play. She has no idea how many people are in her small city as she stares at them passing through the isles of the grocery store. Does anyone else feel like this will affect your children? Do you feel this will have a positive or negative impact on them? Their development? Milestones? Do you feel like this has affected your breastfeeding journey so far? I must say, she is my biggest to date at this age she’s just a few pounds from tripling her birthweight.