- you regularly discuss baby bowel habits, nursing tendencies, and things previously considered taboo (previously: prior to giving birth) as though you are discussing the weather outside
- your wardrobe is severly lacking because 1) you haven't returned to pre baby weight and 2) it's just more fun to dress up your baby than yourself!
- your parents no longer call or stop by for you, but for their precious grandchild
- you've seen more bodily fluids in mere months than you have in your entire life, and you don't even think twice about it!
- you tell your husband "No No" when he wants to play with the television remote or make a phone call
- you make extensive notes on how to care for your child, and proceed to check on child via neurotic emails and phone calls multiple times a day
- you can't remember the last time you slept through the night
- you have more of an intimate relationship with your breast pump than with your husband
- if you're up past 10:00, you comment about how incredibly late it is.
But best of all, you know you're a mom when you understand just how precious the innocence of a child is, the true meaning of love at first sight, and the definition of unconditional love.
I may wear my hair and makeup a little more sloppy, eat by the handful from the pantry as I stroll by, spend my nights performing a circus act in order to keep Jaxon laughing, let my obsessive tendancies slack a bit, but truthfully I have never felt more fulfilled in my life.
{note to self: start taking more pics of jax and i together! sadly these are the only pics i have with him, because i'm always the one behind the camera!}
Such a sweet post, Meg. And I totally LOL'ed at you telling your DH 'no, no'. :)
ReplyDeleteI also try to tell myself to have Joe take more pictures of me and B. When I go through them I find that there are only a handful of us as I am always the one taking them.
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