November 6, 2008

  • First Time Mom...

    I've got two more months to go, and I'm feeling great. I feel fat, but I'm getting used to my belly. Baby kicks regularly, and we play music for her. I'm becoming clumsy so I've been forced to slow down. I never really considered myself to be a doting mother, but everyone tells me that things will change. That magically, my priorities will change, and my child will become the most important thing in my life. It's a strange shift... from living it up for me, now I'll be living for baby. I'm thinking about baby more, and I can't wait to meet her.

    15 things that change after you have a baby:

    1. You finally stop to smell the roses, because your baby is in your arms.
    2. Where you once believed you were fearless, you now find yourself afraid.
    3. The sacrifices you thought you made to have a child no longer seem like sacrifices.
    4. You respect your body ... finally.
    5. You respect your parents and love them in a new way.
    6. You find that your baby's pain feels much worse than your own.
    7. You believe once again in the things you believed in as a child.
    8. You lose touch with the people in your life whom you should have banished years ago.
    9. Your heart breaks much more easily.
    10. You think of someone else 234,836,178,976 times a day.
    11. Every day is a surprise.
    12. Bodily functions are no longer repulsive. In fact, they please you. (Hooray for poop!)
    13. You look at your baby in the mirror instead of yourself.
    14. You become a morning person.
    15. Your love becomes limitless, a superhuman power.