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Well I have officially been a mom for 6 months now and boy how does time fly. There are definitely some things I have learned in the past 6 months
1. Time flies WAY toooo fast. When I turned 25 I felt like time started to move a little quicker but the day you have a baby the fast forward button gets turned on and the days go by too quickly. I wish I could freeze everyday. Layla grows so quickly, it makes me sad. It seems like just yesterday I was holding her in the hospital. When we were leaving the hospital the song It won’t be like this for long by Darius Rucker, started playing on the car ride home. (talk about ironic) Every word of that is so true! Every time I listen to that song, I cry.
“It Won’t Be Like This For Long” by Darius Rucker
He’d been up all nite
Lay’n there in bed listen’n
To his new born baby cry
He makes a pot of coffee
He splashes water on his face
His wife gives him a kiss and says
It gonna be OKIt wont be like this for long
One day soon we’ll look back laugh’n
At the week we brought her home
This phase is gonna fly by
So baby just hold on
It wont be like this for longFour years later bout four thirty
She’s crawling in there bed
And when he drops her off at preschool
She’s clinging to his leg
The teacher peels her off of him
He says what can I do
She says now dont you worry
This will only last a week or two
2. Sleep when the baby sleeps….is the most stupid statement anyone can make. Honestly that is what I thought it would be like. (and there are some babies that this statement would apply to) I totally thought that when she would fall asleep I would take naps with her. Well that is soooo untrue, especially when running a business. Layla would fall asleep and if I didn’t have a zillion and one things on my to do list, I would attempt to nap but by the time I actually fell asleep, she would wake up. Lesson learned. Maybe our next baby will be a sleeper ; )
3. Sleep deprivation – there are no words to describe the sleep derivation you go through for a few months of a baby’s life. I had friends tell me that it was bad but never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be running on 4-5 hours of non consecutive sleep a day for months. But somehow I managed to function.
4. Your every day routine is never going to be like it use to be. I use to wake up when I wanted, go to bed when I wanted, run errands or make plans when I wanted. Now my day revolves around Layla. I wake up when she does, I run my errands and makes plans with friends when she is awake and happy. Life is WAY different.
5. Breastfeeding is hard and VERY time consuming. When Layla was first born I used an app on my phone to time how long she would eat and keep track of which I side I fed her on. In the app it would average how much time you would spend feeding. I would spend 6-7 hours each day with a baby sucking on my boobs. WHAT!!?@?@ Never did I think that breastfeeding would take so much time. As she got older, it got easier though. She is much more efficient at eating now. Although she likes to play and talk (mumble) while eating now.
6. Love at first sight is for real. Greg and I pretty much fell in love when we first met. We have been inseparable for the 8 years we have been together. But when I saw Layla and held her for the first time, that was truly love at first sight. I could never imagine my life with out her. In the end, even though some of the things I have learned seem horrible. I would not trade being a mom for anything in the world. It has been the best thing that has happened to me.
xo ashley
