Month One
It’s hard to believe four weeks have gone by since I gave birth to this little monkey. (Maybe that’s because I’ve had less than a week’s worth of sleep in those four…) I never could have imagined I’d love this so much. She is so much fun and I just want to spend every minute with her. Which are a few of the many things mothers will tell you before you have your baby - the things to which you respond with, “yeah, yeah, I’m sure.” But you’re not. You can’t be.
Then there are the things that no one tells you. The things that make you panic just as soon as the pediatrician’s office closes or everyone you know you could ask has gone to bed.
Some of the things I have learned in the first month:
- You don’t need 8 hours of sleep a night but it’s certainly recommended if you don’t want life to be a blur.
- I am never going to be able to leave the house in a hurry again.
- I am never going to be on time to anything ever again.
- Baby toes and baby fingers are the cutest things in all the world.
- Right behind little baby noises.
- Oh and baby lips.
- No matter how many diapers you have, you will never have enough diapers.
- Or wipes.
And the most important thing I’ve learned in the first month of being a mom:
- Even at 4 AM when all you wanna do is stop crying (yes, both of you) and go to sleep already (yes, both of you), just having that baby look at you with big, blue eyes makes it all better.
I’ll stay up just a little while longer to cuddle just a little more, to play with her little hands and toes, to look at her tiny nose and chubby cheeks, and just watch her breathe.
And who in the world could ever have imagined I’d go sentimental and sappy as a mother???? Run for your lives. Really. Cuz I think it might stick…. Because, really, isn’t she just so damn cute???
