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s/o Stacy's post- Things No One Told You About Motherhood
That even after the baby is born, you will STILL be starving all. the. time b/c of nursing.
That the phrase "TMI" will totally go out the window.
That babies can spit up 200x a day and its still considered "normal." We were so not prepared for the amount of spit up we dealt with.
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Re: s/o Stacy's post- Things No One Told You About Motherhood
How interested in the pooping habits of another being you will be.
How good babies smell 99% of the time and how BAD they can smell that 1% of the time.
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I didn't believe anyone when they told me I'd feel completely overwhelmed...both with love and frustration.
How much hair you actually lose once your hormones become balanced again!! OMG
How sleep deprivation is nothing compared to the trials and tribulations of breast-feeding.
How competitive you feel when you compare other kids' milestones to yours.
How many pictures you can take of your child in one sitting, to get that one perfect picture! lol
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Your child's ability to be a consistently "good sleeper" can often have nothing to do with how you follow all the rules and try to parent your way through it. You can certainly help or hurt the process but you cannot help that your 22 month old still has issues at night sometimes. It never seems to end - if it's not hunger its teeth or development or now...nightmares. Sigh. I think the same is with food - we have done many things right but we also happen to have a really good eater. Some parents do all the "right" things and all their kid will eat is cheese and bread.
How if you feed your baby a tad bit of formula and it backs him up for almost a week, that his farts become rancid smelling (rotten eggs I'm telling ya!)
That being a parent is the hardest job there is (people always warn you about this one but you can never fully understand until you become one!)
That I'll fall a little more in love with my husband every time I see him interacting with his son. I love my boys!
That you could stare at one little person for so long you feel like you might go blind and still feel like you haven't stared long enough.
That everyone has an opinion about raising children and no one is right.
That you cry at/for EVERYTHING.
That you would be so scared of either your little one or yourself dying.
That life goes on when you have a child. One day you wake up out of the baby fog and realize HOLY SHITSTICKS where have I been for the last (fill in the number) amount of months?
That you feel physically ill if they are out of your care, and don't feel whole til they are back in your arms.
That hearing/watching bad news that happen to other children makes you freak out about your own child's safety
Easter 2011
ooohhhh..totally good ones, Tami!
This! And....
No one warns you just how completely you give yourself. I can't even count the number of times I've felt I can do no more, lay in bed crying....and then get up to tend to her anyway. Phew, exhausting doesn't even begin to describe motherhood. Love doesn't sum it up well enough either.
how lazy you become about YOU, I swear I have never let myself go so much and cared so little.
Also people tell you how much you're gonna love your baby but you really dont understand it until they're here. Like I love my son so much that it consumes me at times, I just want him with me ALL THE TIME!!
Plus I second the how scared you will become about death. I worry about it all the time...
How much I would absolutely LOVE breastfeeding. I only ever heard the bad stuff.
That I would have vaginal farts for the first few weeks post partum, while healing.
That I would sweat like a ho in church at night during the first 3-4 weeks after delivery as my hormones come back into balance.
That I wouldn't feel quite as comfortable with my MIL taking care of my kids as I do my own mom.
that four months later you could STILL be recovering from giving birth. FOUR MONTHS PEOPLE!
and i second the love one. its like visiting the grand canyon. you can all the pictures of it you want, but it still takes your breath away when you see it with your own two eyes! people can tell you how there is nothing like a mother's love but until your actually a mom, you could never fathom it.