Yes, better on the gesture with the legs.
I would have to say that I'm still finding the very dark triangle of shadow around the woman's mouth to be distracting and difficult to read. The reference photo isn't giving you useful information in that area. Consider lightening that dark area another value step, or however much you would expect reflected light off the baby's head and shirt to bring the value up. (The addition of light on the upper lip is, I think, exacerbating the heaviness of that shadow.)
It could well be that by the time this is photographed, digitized, scanned and posted, those darks are clustered and showing up harsher on the monitor than on the painting.
I would think your subjects will be pretty delighted with this.
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