[My new natural habitat]
Things I've learned so far:
(There are positively more, but my sleepy fog head prevents me from using my brain to its full potential.)
- It really IS different when it's your baby... the poop, the drool, the sleep loss, everything. There's no question, you just do it because you must.
- You really can love and strive to protect with a fierceness somebody that you just met.
- Newborn babies really DO take up the whole day. An hour here or there while he's sleeping becomes a mad rush to get things done and feel a little bit of normalcy.
- You will have to decide between taking a shower and eating your food while it's warm.
- Your baby will inevitably wake up the second you sit down to eat dinner. You have three options: shovel your food into your mouth like a hungry dog and then tend to the baby, have one of you hold the baby while the other eats, or just let the baby cry. I've mastered eating like this furry little boy (second picture form the top).
- Even though I thought I did, I never knew how much I loved Dustin until I saw him tenderly take care of our baby.
- When you're tired and the baby is crying, you WILL make up or sing annoying/funny songs to get the noise to stop. Dustin has taken to humming THIS song.
- Your boobs suddenly become more than just sexy fun-toys.
- There is nothing sexual about breastfeeding your baby.
- You can have another person's pee (your baby's) on your clothes/blanket/in your hair and not care at all.
- Diapers should grow on trees.
- Your boobs will leak when you least expect it. Wear nipple pads.
- Don't give people a definite time when you've got a newborn. Give them a two to three hour window for your arrival.
- You really can make life better with a hug or a cuddle.
- The baby really is worth all of the trouble. Seriously.
- Life is even more amazing than I thought it could be.
- I love being his Momma.
