I love being a mommy! Nobody ever said it would be easy, and I never thought it would. It's a good thing I thought that, too, because it isn't easy. But in comparison to the struggles of being an outcast infertile couple, I just have to say that being a parent is the best thing that has ever happened to me!
Being a mommy is truly hard work. I can't even pretend that it's a breeze, and I'm in absolute bliss 24/7, because it's not, and I'm definitely not. But, to have these kinds daily struggles instead of the ones no one understands is like an answer to prayer! I absolutely love that my current day hardships & dilemmas consist of the following:
-Getting low on funds or going overdraft because of the outrageous cost of diapers.
-Not having enough room in our tiny house for our stuff because we had to make room for our baby.
-Having to do laundry on a daily basis because of how much babies spit-up or leak on everything.
-Never having any time to do anything (including taking a shower) because the baby demands attention.
-Having to spend 30-45 minutes getting ready to leave if ever we plan to go anywhere with the baby.
-Leaking breastmilk all over my clothes & bed because I had a baby.
-Continuously having to buy expensive nursing pads to contain the milk leaks, only to discover that they shifted in my bra and caused leaks anyway.
-Lingering pelvic pain & weak pelvic muscles from labor & delivery.
-Worrying about our living situation because of the fact that we have a baby that will soon be crawling all over the floor, and we don't want her to get slivers in her hands & knees or worse.
-Having to time our daily activities & outings perfectly with baby's feeding/sleeping schedule in order to maintain sanity and happiness with her--and then discovering that it didn't work anyway.
-Waking up at 4am with engorged breasts and not knowing whether or not to breastfeed or pump and feed baby a bottle, because baby will wake up any minute hungry.
-Having to drag myself out of bed in the wee hours of the morning to change & feed my baby.
-Feeling exhausted constantly because I don't sleep enough with the baby.
-Knowing that my house & yard is a complete mess, but I don't have time to clean it because of the baby.
-Playing video games is out of the question, and movies take like 3 hours instead of 1 to watch because of how much we have to pause to feed/change/check or comfort the baby--then sometimes we just never finish them at all.
-Free time is a thing of the past.
-Writing blogs takes days instead of minutes!
