Things they don't tell you
June 3rd 2009 02:32
Before you become a mom.
1. That pregnancy, despite the hype is not necessarily beautiful. Your feet swell, your hormones run amok. Your once flat belly begins to look like you're trying to shop lift a watermelon from the grocer.
2. After nine months of being sick in one form or another, i.e. morning sickness, heartburn, other unmentionable ailments, you will under go hours of the most excruciating pain, despite the alleged "pain medication" they offer you.
3. Once all of the excitement is over, you will be left with this tiny actual PERSON, with needs who will have no way to communicate those needs except to cry--loudly. At two to three hour intervals 24 hours a day. There may even come a time when you don't know if you are asleep or awake...you just are. This is worse if you are nursing, If you are nursing you begin to feel like some sort of 24 dairy buffet. You will feel that all you do is feed and change thetyrant er, baby.
4. When you can't determine what is wrong with the baby, you will feel utterly helpless. You will panic. You will become convinced that the baby has become come down with some horrible baby disease. Your pediatrician will become your best friend. You will call him or her often. For everything.
5. At some some point, you may determine that you are the worse mother in the entire world, that nothing you do is remotely correct. You may wonder if it is all worth it.
It is. Because the next item on the list redeems it all.
6. Nothing you read or hear will ever ever prepare you for how much in love you will become with that little bundle.
The problem is they don't issue a book that tells you how to be a mother. They can teach you to diaper, feed and make the baby burp. But no one prepares you for the emotional roller coaster. The breath taking moment when your baby looks at you and returns your smile--you know. That little boy or girl will rule your heart forever. There is nothing anyone can do or say to prepare you for that feeling.
1. That pregnancy, despite the hype is not necessarily beautiful. Your feet swell, your hormones run amok. Your once flat belly begins to look like you're trying to shop lift a watermelon from the grocer.
2. After nine months of being sick in one form or another, i.e. morning sickness, heartburn, other unmentionable ailments, you will under go hours of the most excruciating pain, despite the alleged "pain medication" they offer you.
3. Once all of the excitement is over, you will be left with this tiny actual PERSON, with needs who will have no way to communicate those needs except to cry--loudly. At two to three hour intervals 24 hours a day. There may even come a time when you don't know if you are asleep or awake...you just are. This is worse if you are nursing, If you are nursing you begin to feel like some sort of 24 dairy buffet. You will feel that all you do is feed and change the
4. When you can't determine what is wrong with the baby, you will feel utterly helpless. You will panic. You will become convinced that the baby has become come down with some horrible baby disease. Your pediatrician will become your best friend. You will call him or her often. For everything.
5. At some some point, you may determine that you are the worse mother in the entire world, that nothing you do is remotely correct. You may wonder if it is all worth it.
It is. Because the next item on the list redeems it all.
6. Nothing you read or hear will ever ever prepare you for how much in love you will become with that little bundle.
The problem is they don't issue a book that tells you how to be a mother. They can teach you to diaper, feed and make the baby burp. But no one prepares you for the emotional roller coaster. The breath taking moment when your baby looks at you and returns your smile--you know. That little boy or girl will rule your heart forever. There is nothing anyone can do or say to prepare you for that feeling.
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