Stop World I Want to Get Off!!
Perhaps you are pregnant with your first baby. Or maybe you are pregnant and already have one child. Or, worse yet, you are pregnant and already have two babies under four years of age, and the stress of it all is beginning to eat you alive. You are quite ready to shout, “stop, world, i want to get off!”
Being weary emotionally as well as physically seems to be a disease with young mothers. Fatigue is the factor that makes most of us doubt our abilities, our sanity, and even our degree of spirituality.
The emotions and the body go through very radical changes during pregnancy. It is no wonder that immediately after giving birth, when we’ve abruptly lost as much as twenty pounds of baby and fluids, with the hormones at a very low level, and possible thyroid deficiencies, post partum blues really hit us. The apprehensions and responsibility of caring for an infant loom before us, and we’re at a loss to explain our feelings. We are profoundly overcome. One moment we cry, the next , laugh, and then we find ourselves talking gratefully of how glad we’ll be when the baby sleeps through the night.
You are positive this child will never be five years old. Those babies of yours will never toddle off to kindergarden, and you’re sure you’ll be forever knee-deep in diapers and formula, and fatigue.
Take heart dear mom, they grow up way too fast and you will sleep all night once again, but you will also miss the times you were close and needed, so enjoy these times and savor these moments with your babies!
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Add comment August 4th, 2006
