Emma will turn 7 months on Friday. Can you believe it? So hard to believe this time last year were just working on her nursery and planning for the unknowns of parenthood. I thought I would share with the blog-o-world some lessons I've learned over the past 7 months! Oh, boy, so much!
~A vacuum cleaner can cure a crying newborn just like THAT! It's a saving grace. A loud one.
~Apparently, so does a hair dryer, the black and white noise that they play on the TV when it goes out, and the sound of the ocean.
~Babies cry for what appears to be no reason. Whoever said all babies need is to be fed, diapered and loved apparently never had one.
~The emotional recovery from pregnancy is hard - particularly if your pregnancy and birth was hard. No one tells you this because either (1) They don't want to scare you, (2) They just don't tell you, or (3) Maybe they were lucky and didn't experience it. It's hard on you and those around you. But you pull through but only by the grace of God. And that my friend is the truth.
~There are those around that understand the emotional part of the above. For those that don't, you slowly learn to disregard them from your life.
~Mothers are like a cult. Some are friendly, some aren't. Some share info, some don't. I've learned to friend the ones that do share.
~Likewise, mothers can be jealous. Just because. It's like highschool all over again but sometimes worse. I don't get it and probably never will.
~I think motherhood has made me softer, a little less hard around the edges. I'm not as worried about winning the "competition" against the next person. Whose competition is that anyways? I've noticed, though, that some moms either become like myself softer or become more competitive. To each their own, I guess. I'm just not as interested in some big race against the next woman that is never going to end. I have other things to do - like enjoy my daughter growing up and enjoy my relationship with my husband.
~Work is just work. But it's needed. I miss my job, my students. Besides motherhood, it's my other passion.
~Just because she pulls her ear does not mean she has an ear infection!! :) Apparently, this is also an indication of teething!!
~The first babble, the first baby food taste, the first roll is much more meaningful than any graduate school diploma, licensure, or class I could ever teach. There is no price tag to that.
~You can never buy too many baby clothes.
~A lesson I am working on learning is to take the HELP! I've already told Hai when we have our next child (which will have to be c-section) I am going to ask for more help. When did I ever get the idea I was superwoman?
~Pictures are moments in time captured you can never get back. I take hundreds upon hundreds of them (literally). I'm so glad we take so many because Emma is growing so fast and to be able now to look back on them is great but in the future will be greater.
~Having a baby puts your prorities into order quickly. My five year plan has turned into a 5 second plan. And honestly, I'm okay with that.
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