What changes when you have a baby? A better question may be: What doesn't change? Here, writer and mom Rebecca Woolf lists her most notable post-baby observations.
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.
Starts in the hospital....#12, before they let you go home, have you had a bowl movement? Yes, yes, yes, I didn't but let me go home and I will, :) Mom
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ReplyDeleteI thought they were talking about the baby! LOL
SURPRISE! ;-)
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We all gotta watch the Bill Cosby "Did you make a poo poo" stand up routine together :D
ReplyDeleteno, it's mama, and yes Heather, we are such a clever family, luv Mom
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