- When all of your clothing has a puke spot on it - "baby badge"
- When you rock in place regardless of whether you're holding your baby or not.
- When a daily shower is an accomplishment :)
- When you take 24hrs to write one email,
- When you brush your teeth at midnight for the first time
- When you check on a sleeping baby 3 times while making a sandwich
- When you feel like all u can eat buffet, because your baby wants to breastfeed every 40 min
- When u have to wipe off lanolin u just put on, because baby is hungry again!
- When you realize how awful tv programming is at 2:45 am yet you're starting to know, word for word, the selling points of every infomercial out there...
- When you realize that the facial feature you always hated on yourself is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen on your baby's face
- When you're late to everything because it takes three times as long to get ready. Once you're finally ready, baby needs fed, changed, or both all over again!
- When you want to strangle your husband for crunching too loudly on a potato chip after you just spent 45 minutes rocking your baby to sleep
- When you want to strangle your husband for turning on the light in the morning so he can get ready for work.
- When you have to choose: eat or sleep
- When you have absolutely NO sympathy for your significant others headache, backache, or so called "lack of sleep last night"
- When you spend most of the time with the telephone unplugged and your cell phone on vibrate and never return phone calls
- When you can't remember the last time you shaved your legs - but it wasn't recently!!!
- When you get all dressed up to go to the grocery store because getting out of the house is rare
- When you smell like spoiled milk most of the time
- When you make up songs in your head to go with the rhythm of your breast pump pumping
- When you fantasize more about uninterrupted sleep than being intimate with your significant other
- When you count a good day as when you actually dress in clothes that match and don't contain sleepwear or sweats
- When you can fall into a half-sleep, even start having a dream, but your arm keeps moving to burp the baby.
- When your baby wakes you up and you think you've just slept for at least a couple of hours, and it's been.....7 minutes.
- When you find out you can do anything one handed
- When you sit there with your boob hanging all out because the baby nursed and settled and looked so peaceful you didn't want to wake her to move
- When you bathe another human being more frequently than you bathe yourself.
- When you are wide awake at 2 a.m. … and sleeping at 2 p.m.
- When you do at least one load of laundry every day—and none of the clothes are yours.
- When you check to make sure your little one is breathing with neurotic consistency
- When you have supersonic hearing—what I like to call “bat ear”—that allows you to hear your baby’s softest whimper … even while standing under the shower.
- When You know the schedule of every television program by heart. And, you’re tired of them all.
- When you try on your old jeans to see if maybe, just maybe, they’d fit. They only get halfway up your thigh. You cry. Your baby joins you.
- When Your definition of happiness is being able to put on deodorant and brush your teeth before lunch time.
- When you consider making it out the front door and into the “real world”—even if it’s just for a five-minute walk—a monumental achievement.
- When you drink enough water every day to make the Garden of Eden grow in the Sahara desert.
- When you can leave home forgetting your earrings, makeup and wallet but never with less than three changes of clothes for your little one.
- When you take at least a dozen pictures of your baby every day in the same pose, with the same expression, but you can’t bear to delete any of them.
- When Your Facebook updates are no longer about you
- When You no longer wear white
- When Most of your Facebook pictures are of your baby and not of you “modeling.”
- When you and your husband only make skin contact for 5 mins every few days. Sometimes just an arm or a leg...toe...
- When You realize there is something more important in this world than you.
The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sails. -William Arthur Ward
Friday, November 4, 2011
You know you’re a new mom…
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