You just described my little sister, youngest of five girls all hardly more than a year apart in age. "Never," I said, would I hold a baby all day to keep her from crying. You guessed it: I got one just like my sister. And I held her while stirring hot chili on the stove, carried her everywhere...and it wasn't fever or illness that made her such a stick-tight! She grew up to be incredibly independent and in no need of Mom. 😭