Motherhood is rather interesting isn't it? Everyone can sit there and tell you exactly how it was for them and what they did and what they're children were like, but nothing, NOTHING, can prepare you for it. From the moment you hold that little being in your arms everything is changed. Not just your schedule, or the amount of sleep available to you, all of your ideals about almost everything change. You will do anything for this little sleeping person, you would die for them, and you've only just met them.
Although, for the mother I suppose you've known this person for a while, 10 months to be exact. Personally I knew that my son would get hiccups every day, it never failed, I also knew that he was happiest when I was sitting talking to my mother. That was the time he moved around the most and the time I was the most calm. Even so, it's crazy that this little person is entrusted to you.
I had never changed a diaper before having my son. Not one. I babysat but it was mostly toddlers who had already figured out the whole potty training thing. So when I had my son I was completely in the dark about how to do a lot of things. Sure you can read every book there is, still nothing compares.
Luckily for me my mother and grandmother were there to help. My step dad was overseas at the time so my grandmother drove in from IL and was in the room for my sons birth. My step dad was waiting on his computer to skype after I had my son. My mom said it was only the second time she'd seen him cry.
I love my son with all my heart but still somedays I feel so unprepared. There are things he does and I just don't know how to handle it. Hopefully one day someone will come up with the perfect formula for mothering, as of now, we all join forces in this fight to be the perfect mother.
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