Babies are like the stock market
I figured it was time for a happy post!
It's nap time again and daddy has just signed up for five evening shifts this week leaving this momma to deal with witching hour and bed time alone! I feel like I am psyching myself up for an ultra marathon!
Today our angel decided to sleep for 8 hours straight, take a long morning nap, then wake up and roll from tummy to back. I know, huh?
Nico keeps saying "babies are like the stock market." One day is completely different from the next, it couldn't be more true.
Today babyA and I have been in love, those long looks she gives me with a wide open mouthed smile and giggling, then closing her eyes looking away and glancing back at me, like are you still looking because I still love you. Yep, today, she has decided to be an angel. She is currently on nap number 3, and it took 2 minutes to lay her in her crib, then I sat down and took care of three things on my to do list and had a knock on the door, it was our neighbor with freshly baked chocolate banana chip muffins and my stomach was growling. Today the winds have shifted in our favor. (She's not my facebook friend so didn't know that I wrote I was hungry 80% of the time just so you know!)
I am positive these are the days and moments we will remember come a year from now. That is why people keep procreating. These are the things I will end up telling friends when they want to have a baby or get pregnant for the first time. These are things we'll share with our children when they grow up, how cute they were, the smiles, the raspberries, rolling over for the first time. That sent shivers down my spine!! She is growing before our eyes. Our bleary sleep deprived eyes.
One thing I have decided is babies make you crazy (like the stock market).
One moment my husband is reminding me that we have a beautiful healthy little girl, we had a healthy easy enough pregnancy and we are lucky people. The next moment he is day dreaming about what is he going to tell his brother about babies and how he should never ever have one because they steal away all your happiness. I'm in the same boat. Its the highest high and lowest low you could ever know.
I think it's healthy to write or talk about it, all of it, not just the mushy, look my baby rolled over things! No one could have prepared me for how hard this road would be, but at the same time it's healthy to be honest and to talk about your emotions. At the end of the day they are just emotions, not permanent states of being. I won't always be miserable, hungry and tired, nor will I always be loved up, happy and feeling elated. That's just life. That's being a parent.
I have learned two very important things I wanted to share with the world over the last 3 months....ready, here is the secret to going into labor and the secret to getting your newborn to sleep.
If you want to go into labor: go to the grocery store super pregnant waddling like a duck, buy ingredients to make cup cakes, vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting. You also need to get icing to write on the cupcakes, multicolored is the best. Don't use eggs or it won't work and you won't bring about labor. Don't make chocolate cupcakes because that won't bring about labor either. You can only make 11 cupcakes as well, 12 wont work. When you finish cupcakes, sit at kitchen table and frost them thinking about your little baby in your belly, when frosting is finished, offer spoon to hungry husband and take icing and write WELCOME BABY on the cupcakes, one letter on each cupcake then organize and take a picture like the one below. This is guaranteed to bring about labor!! It worked for me so it has to be foolproof!!
Ok, secret to getting your newborn to sleep. Ask newborn not to sleep at all and irregularly for about 6 weeks, have a mental breakdown where you cry a lot for several days in a row, have a sore throat, lose a few kilos and blame it on your parents for not teaching you more about babies. Then ask for support from friends, your partner, your nurse, doctor, anyone, get out all your pent up feelings of hopelessness and BAM, baby will start sleeping that night. This will ONLY work if you wait till you're breaking point, dont think you can speed up that break down, you have to wait.
I hope you can find humor in my free advice, because at the end of the day the only thing I have learned over the last three months is that babies are like the stock market. :)
Happy sleepy baby...
It's nap time again and daddy has just signed up for five evening shifts this week leaving this momma to deal with witching hour and bed time alone! I feel like I am psyching myself up for an ultra marathon!
Today our angel decided to sleep for 8 hours straight, take a long morning nap, then wake up and roll from tummy to back. I know, huh?
Nico keeps saying "babies are like the stock market." One day is completely different from the next, it couldn't be more true.
Today babyA and I have been in love, those long looks she gives me with a wide open mouthed smile and giggling, then closing her eyes looking away and glancing back at me, like are you still looking because I still love you. Yep, today, she has decided to be an angel. She is currently on nap number 3, and it took 2 minutes to lay her in her crib, then I sat down and took care of three things on my to do list and had a knock on the door, it was our neighbor with freshly baked chocolate banana chip muffins and my stomach was growling. Today the winds have shifted in our favor. (She's not my facebook friend so didn't know that I wrote I was hungry 80% of the time just so you know!)
I am positive these are the days and moments we will remember come a year from now. That is why people keep procreating. These are the things I will end up telling friends when they want to have a baby or get pregnant for the first time. These are things we'll share with our children when they grow up, how cute they were, the smiles, the raspberries, rolling over for the first time. That sent shivers down my spine!! She is growing before our eyes. Our bleary sleep deprived eyes.
One thing I have decided is babies make you crazy (like the stock market).
One moment my husband is reminding me that we have a beautiful healthy little girl, we had a healthy easy enough pregnancy and we are lucky people. The next moment he is day dreaming about what is he going to tell his brother about babies and how he should never ever have one because they steal away all your happiness. I'm in the same boat. Its the highest high and lowest low you could ever know.
I think it's healthy to write or talk about it, all of it, not just the mushy, look my baby rolled over things! No one could have prepared me for how hard this road would be, but at the same time it's healthy to be honest and to talk about your emotions. At the end of the day they are just emotions, not permanent states of being. I won't always be miserable, hungry and tired, nor will I always be loved up, happy and feeling elated. That's just life. That's being a parent.
I have learned two very important things I wanted to share with the world over the last 3 months....ready, here is the secret to going into labor and the secret to getting your newborn to sleep.
If you want to go into labor: go to the grocery store super pregnant waddling like a duck, buy ingredients to make cup cakes, vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting. You also need to get icing to write on the cupcakes, multicolored is the best. Don't use eggs or it won't work and you won't bring about labor. Don't make chocolate cupcakes because that won't bring about labor either. You can only make 11 cupcakes as well, 12 wont work. When you finish cupcakes, sit at kitchen table and frost them thinking about your little baby in your belly, when frosting is finished, offer spoon to hungry husband and take icing and write WELCOME BABY on the cupcakes, one letter on each cupcake then organize and take a picture like the one below. This is guaranteed to bring about labor!! It worked for me so it has to be foolproof!!
Ok, secret to getting your newborn to sleep. Ask newborn not to sleep at all and irregularly for about 6 weeks, have a mental breakdown where you cry a lot for several days in a row, have a sore throat, lose a few kilos and blame it on your parents for not teaching you more about babies. Then ask for support from friends, your partner, your nurse, doctor, anyone, get out all your pent up feelings of hopelessness and BAM, baby will start sleeping that night. This will ONLY work if you wait till you're breaking point, dont think you can speed up that break down, you have to wait.
I hope you can find humor in my free advice, because at the end of the day the only thing I have learned over the last three months is that babies are like the stock market. :)
Happy sleepy baby...
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