I just thought of a memory that seemed to happen much longer than just 5 months ago. It was when I was suffering from postpartum depression & Monkey was about a month old.
I had a ton of questions about breastfeeding: if I was doing it right, if Monkey was getting enough milk, and all the other questions that new moms have when they are breastfeeding.
One of my “newer” friends volunteered to come over & try to help me out. When she came over, my dog was acting super [click to continue…]
All of a sudden many people around me are about to have their babies. I’ve heard so much about how excited Andrea is, and how Caroline can’t wait to meet her son right away, and on and on.
I’m so happy for all these expecting friends, but I can’t help but feel just a little sad for myself. Why?
Because I feel like I missed out on that initial bond & feeling the excitement of meeting my son for the first time.
Don’t get me wrong – I was [click to continue…]
I told you that I would jinx myself by writing a sleeping through the night post.
Monkey went to bed at 7:30pm last night and woke up hungry at 4am. I sat him on his newborn lounger and went into the kitchen to make a bottle.
As I made the bottle, my eyes glanced at the clock on the microwave & I was taken back exactly to 12 weeks [click to continue…]
Have you ever felt like you let someone down? I’ve felt like that for two days now. My in-laws are here and I don’t want them to think that I’m a bad mom. I don’t want my husband to wonder why he picked me to be his son’s mom. I feel like I’ve been constantly letting myself down daily. But most importantly, I feel like I’m letting down my baby.
I feel like there’s a “good Jane” and a “not so good Jane”.
The good Jane gets through the day with a smile on her face pretending to be the perfect mother to her baby and wife to [click to continue…]
by Jane on August 26, 2009 · 41 comments
in Baby, Baby Poop, Breastfeeding, Diapers, Doctor, Labor, Maternity clothes, Postpartum Blues, Postpartum Depression, Pregnancy Hormones
Now that motherhood has been a part of my life for almost 5 weeks, I feel a little more confident about all things mom and baby related. Notice I said “a little more confident”… I still have a long ways to go, but looking back to when Monkey was just born, I have come a long way. There’s still so much for me to learn and room for my confidence to increase tenfold.
Motherhood is so unique that nothing except experience can really prepare you. You can read books, blogs, or listen to advice from parents, but it will not be the same when you have a child. It’s just something that you need to [click to continue…]
This will more than likely be my first and last rant on anything on this blog. I just have a few things to get off my chest and I apologize ahead of time for pressing the pause button on our normally scheduled blog posts…
Even before I begin, I just [click to continue…]
So I’m sitting here on the couch while Tarzan is feeding Monkey. What a day it’s been! I have a massive headache due to all of the crying I’ve done today and my husband has been wonderful in taking over as the role of parent for little Monkey for a bit while I ran out to get my medicine and a few other things.
Let me back up and explain what happened…
I read my post to Tarzan and couldn’t get through it without crying a few times. The look on his face was complete shock when I was finished reading everything. He told me that he wanted me to call my OB immediately. I went back and forth with [click to continue…]
Three weeks postpartum and time to think about what I’ve learned so far. I really can’t believe that three weeks ago today I had our little Monkey. When you factor in the sleep deprivation, it seems like forever ago, but it’s only been three weeks and time really does fly by when you have a baby!
When I was pregnant I tried to read up on a few baby books, but honestly, none of them really held my interest. I look at motherhood at a trial and error kind of thing and something that you have to experience for yourself in order to know what to do. All babies are different and all parents are different, so what worked for one family might not have worked for us. I tried to enjoy being pregnant, but I will admit that I was beyond anxious to get this show on the road and come home with a baby.
Oh, if only I knew just how different life would [click to continue…]
Before we get talking about breastfeeding, I just want to say that I’ve never had painful nipples in my life. Well, unless you count that time that I had a sneaking suspicion that I was pregnant. Both boobs hurt and Tarzan needed to stay ten feet away from the nips too. Talk about pain.
See, I’ve never really had too much sensitivity in my boobs at all. I always thought this was pretty damn irritating, you know, when trying to get in the mood.
I might add that Tarzan is a boob man, so this was an interference for him as well. He could literally pull them, bite them, and move them all around and I [click to continue…]
Yesterday was a big day for our little Monkey! It was his official first outing that wasn’t to the pediatrician’s office. Yesterday also marked two weeks since Monkey has been home. Wow, it really has gone by so quickly!
We decided that we would go over to my parent’s house to hang out for a bit. Around noon my mom called to see if we knew about what time we would be there and I told her “no later than 3 pm”. I figured that three hours would be more than enough time to get all three of us ready.
Well, I was [click to continue…]
= a post from Mommy Jane 
= a post from Daddy Tarzan
