Are you the mother you thought you would be?

Re: Are you the mother you thought you would be?

• hersheykiss

  October 2009

  I have taken care of children since I was 12. I kinda knew what kind of mom I would be, but what amazes me is my patience level. Some days I do not have nearly the patience I thought I would have and some days I surprise myself with having more. I also find myself at a loss of what activities to do with E when we are home.

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• love22

  October 2009

  I have been thinking a lot about this lately.

  Before you had your LO and thought about how you would feel when certain things would happen is this how you are now?  I am surprised at how much in love I am and how it has changed my perspective on life.  I am surprised at how much I didn't know before.  In many aspects of my life I can be pretty worried about a lot of things but overall I am pretty relaxed about parenting.  At the same time I never knew how all consuming and cumulative sleep deprivation is and how much I would obsess over M's sleep.
  

  Are there any things you planned on doing/not doing that you now do the opposite?  I didn't know that I would follow as many of the attachment parenting beliefs as I do.  I really thought it would be easy to do cry it out and as it turns out it wasn't right for our family.  I didn't think that I would watch tv when he was so young and awake like I do now (although i do turn it off if he notices it is on).  I didn't know that in some ways I have become a sleep nazi (when it is bedtime we are at home and it is quiet).
  

  What personally has surprised you the most about yourself as a mom? I am surprised at what a softie I have become.  I used to even like crime shows (CSI, Forensic Files, etc.) and now I can't watch them at all.  I knew that I would love it but I love it for all sorts of different reasons I didn't anticipate.
  

   

  

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• susan_m

  October 2009

  The one thing that has suprised me is my patience.  I am normally not a patient person at all, however I have been doing suprisingly well. 

   

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• linnychanel

  October 2009

  Before you had your LO and thought about how you would feel when certain things would happen is this how you are now?  In the beginning it was so hard, not that its not hard now, just different. I carried around a lot of guilt for the whole nursing thing. Now I really give my self a freaking break for stuff. I feel like I'm easy going, but firm and loving. As logan gets more independant he will test me, not looking forward to that!!

  Are there any things you planned on doing/not doing that you now do the opposite? When your pregnant its easy to say I would never do that. Having a baby is a whole other thing. I learned real quick to do what works. For us that meant going against things I said I would never do. Looking back those have been the best/hardest choices I had to make. 

  What personally has surprised you the most about yourself as a mom? That I can do it, a lot of times I thought to myself I can't imagine if x,y,z happens. And it does and you just get it done.

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