Congratulations on your little baby who was just (or about to be) born! Nearing the end of pregnancy is exciting, mama.
Sharing our body with our baby for the past nine months is an amazing journey. But hey, we do want our bodies back, don’t we?!
But even after our baby arrives, we face yet another period of time where our body still hasn’t reached normal. It takes time after birthing a baby before we feel like ourselves again.
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Have you ever found yourself attempting to have a conversation with your child only to feel that you are speaking to a brick wall?
Those one word answers, and dismissive grunts, can be frustrating when all you want to do is talk and connect with your kid.
Open communication between parents and children is important.
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You’ve heard about them. You’ve been warned about them. You had no idea what to expect and now they are here.
Your sweet little angel, that tiny babe who once fit in the crook of your arm, is now a tyrannical monster-child whose vocabulary consists mostly of “mine” and “no” and is capable of having a complete and total meltdown at the drop of a hat.
These are the Terrible Twos.
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The time is near.
Giving birth is on the horizon, but there’s a snag – instead of the vaginal delivery you were expecting, your doctor tells you to have a c-section.
For some moms, this is a surprise, and for other’s it’s not. I was hoping to deliver my twins vaginally, but I developed Intrauterine Growth Restriction.
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Your body has just gone through an amazing experience.
You grew a human and another organ (your placenta). It even provides all the nutrition your baby needs for the first few months of development by producing that sweet liquid gold.
Your hormones have changed many times over and nothing is in the same place as before you got pregnant. It’s funny how our bodies change throughout the pregnancies that we have.
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Elna is a mom to twins who blogs and writes for a living. She loves all things mom. While she’s not blogging, you can find Elna meal planning, organizing and helping other moms in her Facebook group, Ready Set Blog for Traffic (From Mom to Mompreneur). →