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May 2013 Moms
Boo0512
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GTKY: favorite/least favorite parts of motherhood
Boo0512
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I hope this hasn't been done before, sorry if it has!
What are a few of your favorite/least favorite things about motherhood?
What are a few of your favorite/least favorite things about motherhood?
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Re: GTKY: favorite/least favorite parts of motherhood
1. Baby smiles/laughs, there is nothing better
2. All the firsts
3. Knowing that my baby finds love and comfort in me
4. The major snuggles I get when I take her out of the crib
5. I love that dd loves when I sing to her
Least favorite:
1. Lack of sleep (obviously)
2. Not being able to look decent when I go places (I miss full make up and hair!)
3. I hate that my dd swings her arms while nursing and constantly hits me in the face.
4. Wrestling the sleeper buttons during the MOTN diaper change
5. I miss having a clean house (and I'm not a neat freak but this is ridic)
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Favorites - Baby snuggles, seeing him smile, and hearing his belly laughs. Also just the emotions and feelings I have towards him that I never knew existed before having him.
1. Smiles, laughs, babbles
2. Doing tiny baby laundry (I know that's weird)
3. Seeing DH as a daddy
4. Seeing her learn new things
5. Nursing her to sleep. Bad habits be damned, I love it.
Least favorite
1. Having to leave her at daycare (starting in a month)
2. The anxiety that comes with being a parent. Is she getting everything she needs? Is her head too flat? What if she gets sick? What if something happens to DH or myself? It's endless.
Least favorite: lack of sleep, lack of mama upkeep...I seriously need a pedicure, my eyebrows waxed and some new clothes...
That little smile, the way he roars and blows raspberries, when those little hands grab on to each side of my face, nursing, all the "firsts," the feeling that there's something more important than me, seeing him with DH
Least favorites:
Losing sleep, leaving him to go to work, my parents being so far away and missing so much, poop everywhere, the fears, the "sick days" in the future.
Favorite
Carrying him close to me in the ergo especially when he falls asleep on me
Playing altogether as a family
His smile
Every morning feeling like Christmas morning
Cuddling in bed
Feeling like a superstar because of his love for me.
Least favorite
Car trips - watching/listening to baby cry in car and not being able to comfort him - ugh
Feeling like we are always on the clock because of LO's sleep needs
Not being able to fully relax when I am apart from him...maybe not being able to fully relax ever
-When he grabs both sides of my face and tries to kiss me by sucking my face off
-Reading to him
-Watching him learn and discover
-Watching my old favorite cartoon movies with him (flame? It's not like he's really watching them, he plays while I watch the old Care Bears movies)
-When he laughs hysterically and that makes me laugh and then my cheeks hurt.
-Seeing how obsessed DH is with him
Not so much:
-Never sleeping ever
-When he poops into my open palm in the middle of a diaper change
-Seeing him freak out when MIL demands to hold him
-Sucking out boogers
-General nighttime anxiety. Will I sleep? Will he sleep? Will he claw his face off? Have I followed all regulations to minimize our SIDS risk?
-Having to dole out equal amounts of time with family. If Grandma #1 spends an hour with DS, then Grandma #2 freaks out and demands equal, if not more time.
-When he learns something or can do something for the first time. He's so shocked then so proud of himself all in a matter of seconds.
-when he's so excited for something he starts to hyperventilate
-when we take a nap together and he just buries his head into me. Then his little yawns as he falls asleep. When he wakes up and does a big stretch and then just stares at me all loving.
Dislikes- lack of sleep!
- when I can't make it immediately better like his reflux, ear infection, diaper rash etc.
Least favorites: lack of sleep and being spit up on constantly. The never ending laundry. When ds gets sick and I feel helpless. The amount of time it takes to get ready to go anywhere. Not spending enough time with him during the week due to work. Not having
Enough time to get everything done.
Least-
Lack of sleep
Laundry overload
When she has her fussy days
Lack of time
Shots for her
The things I struggle with, however, are not having much time with my husband and being exhausted.
1. His smile and belly laugh....Really? I am that funny? I can not get enough!
2. Seeing my 3 year old interact with the baby. He is so cute and gentle with him and he can make him laugh so hard he gets the hiccups and spits up.
3. Watching my husband take care of Tommy. He is so good with him and the baby just adores him.
4. Holding Tommy when he falls asleep in my arms. I just can't handle his little face
5. His face when I walk into daycare. Even though he was perfectly content and happy when I got there, he is so excited to see me.
6. Looking in the rear view mirror and seeing his face in the mirror on the headrest.
Least Favorites:
1. MOTN wake-ups (although sometimes as corny as it sounds I love to rock him....sometimes)
2. When he won't nap.
3. Getting out of the door in the morning to bring the boys to daycare. It was just so much easier with one!
4. Coming home from work and feeling like I can't get anything done, especially when my husband, who is a cop, works 3 p.m. -11 p.m. I am in awe of single parents.
5. When he has an inconsolable crying fit in the car.
6. Diaper blowouts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!